<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Obama continued (and continues) to insist that he didn't need Congress' authorization to bomb Syria.<div><br></div><div>So I don't think you can say that Obama was deterred by being "forced to go to Congress." <br><div><br></div><div>He was deterred by (1) vast popular opposition at home and abroad; (2) the uncertainty of the outcome of more US intervention in Syria; and (3) Putin's diplomacy.</div><div><br></div><div>Obama is conducting a world-wide terrorism campaign, the most extensive in history. </div><div><br></div><div>You should indeed say no bombing under any circumstances whatsoever. </div><div><br></div><div>You should work to expose what he's actually doing - and expose the lies he's telling to the American people about "winding down the war."</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Oct 20, 2013, at 9:27 PM, Robert Naiman <<a href="mailto:naiman@justforeignpolicy.org">naiman@justforeignpolicy.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="ltr">I'm worried about landing a blow by any means possible. <div><br></div><div>In the run-up to the aborted US bombing of Syria, I personally led the charge on the left to force Obama to go to Congress. The stupid, dogmahead, no-brain ultra-left denounced me. "What difference does it make if Obama goes to Congress? You should say no bombing under any circumstances whatsoever!" But if Obama hadn't been forced to go to Congress, the bombing would not have been stopped. Someone has to do the work of making a toehold. Obviously, the stupid, no-brain, dogmahead ultra-left is not going to do it.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 7:27 PM, "E. Wayne Johnson 朱稳森" <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ewj@pigsqq.org" target="_blank">ewj@pigsqq.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Did you know that since the NSA was created in 1952 during McCarthyism?<br>
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END the NSA!!!!<br>
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The very existence of the NSA is yet another example of the US
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And you are worried about who heads it up????<div><div class="h5"><br>
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<div dir="ltr">Did you know that since the NSA was created in 1952
during McCarthyism, it's never been headed by a civilian? And now here
come 10,000 Americans, saying not only that the head of the NSA should
be a civilian, but that the civilian should be the top Congressional
critic of the NSA wiping its butt with the U.S. Constitution.
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Policy Director<br>
Just Foreign Policy<br>
<a href="http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/" target="_blank">www.justforeignpolicy.org</a><br>
<a href="mailto:naiman@justforeignpolicy.org" target="_blank">naiman@justforeignpolicy.org</a><br>
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