David Duke
David Ernest Duke (born July 1, 1950 in Tulsa, Oklahoma) is a former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives. In the past, Duke has run for office both as a Democrat, as a Republican, and as the 1988 Presidential candidate of the Populist Party. David Duke was once a Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. [1]
Duke has been a vehement critic of President George W. Bush's decision to invade Iraq, and of the Republican National Committee.[2] Evolutionary racism is a major component of David Duke's racism. [3]
On the War in Iraq, Duke stated,
- Cindy Sheehan is absolutely right. Her son signed up in the military to defend America, not Israel...In advancing this war for Israel, government and media advocates obviously couldnât get Americans behind the war by saying it was a war for Israel. They had to make up bogus reasons for the war, such as saying that Iraq was an imminent threat to America and that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction. [4]
Duke unsuccessfully ran for the U.S. Senate in the nonpartisan blanket primary in 1990 against the incumbnet Democrat J. Bennett Johnston, Jr. of Shreveport. In 1991, he ran unsuccessfully for governor against Edwin Edwards, who won his fourth nonconsecutive term.
Duke participated in the "International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust" in 2006 held in Iran.