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The Army, the FBI, the Nixon Administration, the Watergate scandal, and
Jail. He is a man of courage and honor to some, a disgrace to others, and
fascinating to all. From his involvement in Watergate, to his controversial radio program, which reaches some 8-10 million Americans daily, he is a man who has cast himself in his own action adventure story.
Who is this? G. Gordon Liddy or the G-Man as he is known to his talk
show listeners, a national political personality and host of the nationally
syndicated conservative radio talk show, the G. Gordon Liddy Show. In
addition to the radio program, Mr. Liddy is an author of three books, an
actor, and a lecturer on political history, domestic and foreign policy,
and politics today. He is widely respected by friends and foes for his
intellect, convictions, outspoken style and humor.
Please join us in welcoming G. Gordon Liddy - a genuine American
original - to Israel, and the radio studios of the Jerusalem Post.
Liddy, "delighted" to working with The Jerusalem Post, will bring his
daily, very conservative radio program "The G. Gordon Liddy Show" to the
country for a week, starting October 22. During that period he will interview a
host of Israeli leaders and talk to his listeners on some 200 radio stations around the US from the Post's building in Jerusalem.
Asked if he is afraid to come to Israel now, at a time of State
Department travel advisories and a complete lack of tourism, Liddy
emphatically replied "Nooo."
"I'm a life member of the American Special operations Association, a
former war-time artillery officer in our army, and a former bureau
supervisor of the FBI," he said, in signature staccato fashion.
"I don't like to say a lot of self serving things, but I once captured
at gun-point one of only two people in history who had twice been on the
FBI's 10 most wanted list, and I did it at gun-point by out-drawing him.
I'm not going to be afraid to go to Israel, for heaven's sake. If
someone starts shooting at me, and there is a gun nearby, they are going
to be damned sorry."
Although plans to do the show in Israel were hatched well before
September 11, Liddy feels the attacks in the US make his coming here now
more "pertinent and important."
"The US citizenry now understand to some degree what every Israeli
citizens has been going through for so many years at the hands of the
terrorists," Liddy said.
On one of his web-sites, Liddy describes what he views as his overall
purpose in public life as follows: "to look through the night of
nitwittery, cut through the political correctness, and blow away the
bravo sierra [b.s.] to find the good, the true, the prudent and wise so
you can act upon it to the benefit of your personal, family, working,
community, and national life as an American citizen."
Asked how interested his listeners now are in what is happening in
Israel, considering that US forces are involved in fighting taking place
four large countries to Israel's east, Liddy said the US public is
interested because of Osama bin Laden's attempts to link the attacks in
New York and Washington to US support for Israel.
"The terrorists are saying there will be no peace in the US until they
feel secure in - quote -- Palestine - end quote. That is code for the
extinction of the Israeli state, and the driving out and killing of all
Jews in what they claim as 'Palestine'," he said.
According to Liddy, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was dead on the mark
when he said last week that Israel will not play the role of 1938
Czechoslovakia."
"Sharon was right," Liddy said. "The reason for the uproar [in the US
over these statements] is because they struck home."
Liddy said that the US "has no business forcing the representatives of
the legitimate democratic government of Israel to parley with a man who
is a terrorist, who -- while he talks peace in English for CNN -- turns
around and says in Arabic to his Arabic brethren, 'don't listen to
that'."
"Yasser Arafat's plan is still the same, and that is the extinction of
Israel," Liddy said. "He is a terrorist himself, he harbors terrorists,
he gives them aid and succor, and that means he falls under the
definition that President Bush has said of a regime that must be ended.
Why, if it is a regime that must be ended, should Israel continue these
fruitless discussions with him?"
Asked why Bush, who Liddy avidly supports, does not see this, the G-Man
placed the problem squarely on Colin Powell's shoulders.
"The problem is that there is a split in the administration between
President Bush and Defense Secretary Daniel Rumsfeld on the one hand,
who want a hard line against not only the terrorists but also those who
give them aid and succor, and his unfortunate choice of Secretary of
State -- the dove Colin Powell. Powell counseled Bush's father against
military action to eject Iraq from Kuwait, and then stopped the war when
he had it won, snapping defeat from the jaws of victory. Now he is
giving him [the younger Bush] the same advice."
Liddy, who was the only Watergate conspirator who refused to 'sing" and
implicate his bosses at his Watergate trial on the 1970s, and perhaps as
a result served more time - 52 months in jail - than anyone else involved in
that scandal, is now willing to speak his mind freely on a variety of
issues.
Asked what Israel should be doing now that the US has started its war on
terror, Liddy said, "They should give all the superb intelligence
assistance they can to the US, they should keep their guard up,
continue their policy of killing those who mastermind killing in Israel, and resist US State department Arabists when they would have them
engage in futile blabber with the likes of Yasser Arafat."
Click here for a list of affiliate radio stations that will be carrying Gordon Liddy's broadcasts from Israel.
For more information check the Gordon Liddy Web site at:
http://www.theggordonliddyshow.com