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Bob says it's realistic to get the CIA out of drone strikes.<br>
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It's easier to get the country out of 'Salem. <br>
<a href="http://www.tobaccovideos.com/video/4868">http://www.tobaccovideos.com/video/4868</a><br>
It's pretty well entrenched in the country's but.<br>
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<pre wrap="">block "signature" strikes <strike>on people who are not Al Qaeda
that</strike> blatantly violate international law.
Hey there's also that thing, the Constitution...?
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On 11/27/12 6:06, Carl G. Estabrook wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On matters like this, maybe AWARE should resume writing letters (as AWARE) to our wretched representatives in the new Congress.
Davis, Durbin, Kirk - they're all awful on war and the economy, and we should be telling them so with some regularity.
Someone want to do a draft along the lines Bob suggests for consideration at Sunday's meeting?
We could discuss it, email the results, & put hard copies in the post on Monday.
Perhaps we should make that a regular weekly action, as part of our role as a local anti-war group.
A "committee of correspondence."
--CGE
On Nov 26, 2012, at 3:31 PM, Robert Naiman <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:naiman@justforeignpolicy.org"><naiman@justforeignpolicy.org></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Contrary to conventional wisdom, there are realistic and useful things
that Congress could do to downsize the drone strike policy: 1) get the
CIA out of drone strikes; 2) stop "secondary strikes" and attacks on
rescuers; 3) force the Administration to publicly count civilian
casualties; 4) force the Administration to compensate civilian
victims; 5) block "signature" strikes on people who are not Al Qaeda
that blatantly violate international law.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/a-reformist-strategy-to-d_b_2193610.html">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/a-reformist-strategy-to-d_b_2193610.html</a>
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Robert Naiman
Policy Director
Just Foreign Policy
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<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:naiman@justforeignpolicy.org">naiman@justforeignpolicy.org</a>
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