<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Exactly right.<br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On Nov 3, 2012, at 1:51 PM, "E. Wayne Johnson 朱稳森" <<a href="mailto:ewj@pigsqq.org">ewj@pigsqq.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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It is clear that Gill is a shill and a toady for the Democrat Agenda,<br>
which is all about shilling and toadying for Obama et al who<br>
are shilling and toadying for the 0.001%.<br>
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The ejection of Johnson put the bipartisan support for the war firmly
back in the local<br>
district, completely disinfranchised the significant anti-war sentiment
in the district,<br>
and ensured that both the Stupid Party candidate (Gill) and the Evil
Party <br>
candidate (Davis) will provide no voice to the anti-war crazies and<br>
continue the stupid and evil war.<br>
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On 11/03/12 23:12, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
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Corey Mattson of Bloomington-Normal Coalition for Peace writes, "...no
one in this congressional district race represents our view of no
military intervention, no sanctions against Iran ...Shows work needs to
be done! ...Peace movement work, that is...":
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<div><b>"13th district congressional candidates agree on Iran" </b><i><<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://wglt.org/wireready/news/2012/11/08145_13thDebate2_061447.shtml">http://wglt.org/wireready/news/2012/11/08145_13thDebate2_061447.shtml</a>>.</i><br>
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<div>Democrat David Gill shows once again that if he is sent to
Congress from our district, he will fail to uphold incumbent Tim
Johnson's opposition to the ongoing Mideast war.</div>
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<div>Although Johnson is a Republican, he voted for the impeachment
of President Bush for launching the Iraq war; joined other House
members (including Dennis Kucinich and Ron Paul) in suing President
Obama for violating the War Powers Act; and voted consistently against
more money for war in the Mideast, after publicly regretting his votes
in 2001 and 2002 in favor of the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. (He
had been urged to change his position by the local antiwar movement,
the Green party, etc.)</div>
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<div>Gill on the other hand has consistently avoided promising that
he would vote as Johnson has on the war, saying only that he was
"against the war." Now he does say clearly that he backs the
administration's war policy on Iran - which we recently heard
enunciated by Senator Durbin in Champaign, namely that Iran is building
a nuclear weapon and must be stopped, by military means if necessary.
(Obama has been quite consistent on the matter: when he was running for
the Senate in 2004, the Chicago Tribune wrote, "…the United States
should not rule out military strikes to destroy nuclear production
sites in Iran, Obama said … ‘having a radical Muslim theocracy in
possession of nuclear weapons is worse [than] us launching some missile
strikes into Iran…’ he said.")</div>
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<div>In our Congressional district, Independent candidate John
Hartman "says even if Iran has the ability to launch a nuclear weapon,
he believes it would be a mistake to move forward at any time with
military action: 'I think that even bombing their nuclear capabilities
would be counterproductive. I think it would rile them against us, as
well as the Arab world against us.'</div>
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<div>This latest indication of Gill's unsoundness on the war -
despite his apparent support for Medicare for all - has led several of
my acquaintances to say that they will vote for Hartman, the
independent, in protest of the 'bipartisan' war policy. See Glenn
Greenwald, "Obama moves to make the War on Terror permanent" <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/oct/24/obama-terrorism-kill-list">http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/oct/24/obama-terrorism-kill-list</a>>.</div>
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<div>--CGE</div>
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