European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 7, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes columns Carl Rowan advisers reluctant to let Bush debate Dukakis Republican presidential nominee George Bush walked away from scheduled debates against democratic Nomi Nee Michael Dukakis on sept. S in Bir Mingham ala., and sept. 14 in Annapolis my. This is because powerful forces within the Bush Campaign fear any debate with Dukakis while others argue that the vice president would look pathetic if he ran from fact to face confrontations with Dukakis who has been described by one Bush consultant As the Best debater in the  sometimes Only insomniacs know the truth about decisions to debate or not debate t just happened to be up working in the wee hours of a recent morning when i heard Charlie Rose the Host of lbs s nigh watch do an incredible interview with Roger Ailes Bush s Media advisor and debate coach. Bush s cancelling of to important de Bates will be understood if you read the following transcript from the pro Gram Ailes Dukakis is the dirtiest campaigner in  Rose How Many debates do you want to Sec George Bush engage in ails none Rose so you re the Guy who s keep ing George Bush from committing to de Bales ails " i did l say  Rose Why Don t you want any do ails because Michael Dukakis is supposed to be the Best debater in Amer Ica. He look two years off Learned How to do it did a television program called the advocates sat there like a narcissistic lilt a fellow. Rose so you be got a Guy who wants to be the nest president of the United states and you re not willing to have him go piano a Maio ails i did t say i was t willing to. William Safire i did t say there would t be debates. There will be debates. And i m sure hell be Happy to debate. You asked me whether i wanted debates. I said  Rose you Don t because you Don t think your Guy will do Well Ailes "1 Don t know How Well he d do. But you re in the ring with the toughest debater in America and a Guy who does t Tell the Inith. When you debate someone like that you be got a prob Lem. It seems obvious that two septem Ber debates were washed out because ails convinced Bush and his Campaign manager Jim Baker that Dukakis is the Best debater in  or that Dukakis is the dirtiest campaigner or that the Massachusetts governor does t Tell the  whatever the rationale ails obviously is pressing to hold the debates close to his preferred number none. Debates have become an institution in american presidential contests in recent years. Whether the institution can sur Vive will depend on How much influence Ailes continues to exert. Millions of americans will surely conclude that if or. Bush needs to run from debates the Way Ailes wants him to hide then Bush s qualifications to be come president arc suspect to put it mildly. A classic example of genocide is under Way  . On the Day the cease fire began in the Iran Iraq War Saddam Hussein dictator of Iraq launched a new military offensive. This was for vengeance to punish the kurdish people living in Northern Iraq who had dared to pursue their Long struggle for autonomy during the dictator s War against Iran. With his forces freed by the cease fire Saddam Hus Sein smashed the kurd possibly with Mustard Gas which he has re introduced in modern warfare. Ninety thousand kurdish refugees Are now huddled in tent cities along the turkish Border with another 40.000 Cut off from escape. This is a Campaign of extermination aimed against an ancient ethnic group that wants Only to keep its own language and customs in Sarbast Freedom. A Clanie example of genocide is under Way and the world docs not give a Damn. Three men Are alive today who can boast of having made a major contribution to world depopulation Fri Amin of Africa pol pot of Asia and Saddam Hussein of the Middle East. The iraqi trails the asian in the number slaughtered Only because his nuclear capability was curtailed by the israelis otherwise he would surely have incinerated 5 million residents of Tehran however Saddam is still Active and with several million kurd Al his mercy he May yet pass pol pol in. Mega murders. The iraqi dictator evidently sees a cease fire As a Lime for gelling even. He will one Day turn his aggressive attention to Syria s Assad the Only Arab Leader to have helped Iran but first he is intent on Blo Odily crushing All self determination aspirations within his own Borders. For a millennium Kurdistan has been a place but not a nation. Today the nearly 20 million kurd live under three flags in Iran Iraq and Turkey Wilh some in Syria and the soviet Union. The iranians supplied the iraqi kurd Wilh arms to harass Saddam and the iraqi dictator armed the Irani an kurd to harass the Ayatollah s army. The kurd though split into factions and aware they were being used As pawns saw the Iran Iraq War As a Chance to establish a kind of autonomy if not Independence. Bui Iran Iraq peace Means retribution and death. Let us Marvel at the reaction United nations peacemakers in Geneva Are concerned Only with the interests of member nations not with the lives of the kurdish people or with the proliferation of Poison Gas. Not even a Cluck of sympathy comes out of the . Secretary general who docs not want to offend Baghdad or Tehran. The United states in its Reagan Era assert ivaness did manage to Issue one Small Cluck. The state depart ment spokesperson has said that if the reports of mass exodus of refugees were True then what is going on would be a grave violation of International human  How s that for taking action to Stop Slaughter of innocents presumably a double Cluck or even Escala Tion to a loud harm Mph would cause us to Tose influence with Saddam whom we helped to Wear Down Iran Why waste an iou the turks who severely repress their own kurdish minority they Call the kurd Mountain turks and forbid the kurdish Lang aug Are accepting some Refu gees from Saddam s Wrath. That s something not much but at least not the turning away we gel from the totalitarian Arab world or the amoral soviet Union. The world s film Crews Are Loo comfortable in Israel s West Bank covering a made for to uprising of anew people to bother with the genocidal Campaign against a Well defined ethnic group that has been friendless throughout modern history and does not understand the publicity business. For television inaccessibility is no excuse for ignoring the news the ability of color cameras to faring Home the horror of Large scale atrocities imposes a special responsibility an that medium to stake out murder scenes or get firsthand accounts from refugees. What about the two candidates for Leader of the free world if Ever asked about stopping this killing or. Dukakis would propose mailing a Stem Post card to the , and or. Bush might offer a Little homily on Cven handedness. We could Stop the Killin by a demanding a Securi gees to the . Tor testimony cd encouraging wider turkish did d leaning on Iraq by threatening an Early pullout of persian Gulf ships. If this gels no results Quicley we can slip stinger missiles to Massoud Barzani in the Hills to bring Down the gassing gunships. The kurd say pesh Merga Forward to  that is a slogan of Defiance but it has also been a description of their Fate. People who want Only peace and Freedom deserve America s attention and support a Vort. 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