<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Thanks, Bob! Well done!<br><br>Ricky Baldwin<br>
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"Speak your mind even if your voice shakes." - Maggie Kuhn<br><br>--- On <b>Fri, 11/5/10, Robert Naiman <i><naiman.uiuc@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Robert Naiman <naiman.uiuc@gmail.com><br>Subject: [Peace-discuss] Did Voters Give Republicans a Mandate for More War?<br>To: "Peace-discuss List" <peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net><br>Date: Friday, November 5, 2010, 3:07 PM<br><br><div id="yiv1895043487"><div class="yiv1895043487gmail_quote"><div class="yiv1895043487gmail_quote"><p class="yiv1895043487MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="yiv1895043487MsoNormal">Senator McCain is apparently trying to argue that because of the results of the Congressional election, the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan should be postponed.</p>
<p class="yiv1895043487MsoNormal"> </p><p class="yiv1895043487MsoNormal">The world would be a better place if one could just ignore
things like this. But as Reuters points out, McCain is
ranking member on Senate Armed Services, in addition to being the 2008
Republican presidential nominee. Two axioms of politics in America are: 1) you
can't ignore a dangerous political claim, just because it's nonsensical, and 2)
you can't wait for a nonsensical and dangerous political claim to gain momentum
before moving to quash it, because it's like a highly infectious disease: you
have to stamp it out immediately before it takes root in the population.</p>
<p class="yiv1895043487MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="yiv1895043487MsoNormal">So, donning my Captain
Obvious superhero costume, allow me to try to bring some evidence to
bear on Senator McCain's apparent claim that the recent election was a mandate
to extend the presence of US troops in Afghanistan.</p>
<p class="yiv1895043487MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="yiv1895043487MsoNormal"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/did-voters-give-republica_b_779661.html">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/did-voters-give-republica_b_779661.html</a></p>
</div><br><br>-- <br>Robert Naiman<br>Policy Director<br>Just Foreign Policy<br><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.justforeignpolicy.org">www.justforeignpolicy.org</a><br><a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:naiman@justforeignpolicy.org" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=naiman@justforeignpolicy.org">naiman@justforeignpolicy.org</a><br>
<br>Urge Congress to Support a Timetable for Military Withdrawal from Afghanistan<br><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/act/feingold-mcgovern">http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/act/feingold-mcgovern</a><br>
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