<div dir="ltr">Tammy D. would not be my first choice, and if anyone wants to make a credible challenge to her for the Dem nomination, I'm ready. So far, looks to be the opposite - every potential credible Dem challenger is standing aside for Tammy D - their choice, not mine. <div><br></div><div>In Washington, the difference between pure evil and swings both ways makes a palpable difference all the time. Kirk is pure evil. Tammy D swings both ways. </div><div><br></div><div>So, for example, indicted Menendez just got replaced as the ranking Dem on SFRC by Cardin. Cardin is AIPAC too, but he's not hyper-super-duper AIPAC like Menendez. That change from hyper-AIPAC to just plain AIPAC is likely to have a big impact in the coming Congressional fight on Iran.</div><div><br></div><div>
<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><a href="http://www.nationaljournal.com/congress/menendez-s-foreign-relations-loss-is-white-house-s-gain-20150402">http://www.nationaljournal.com/congress/menendez-s-foreign-relations-loss-is-white-house-s-gain-20150402</a><br><a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2015/04/bob-corker-iran-bill-116629.html">http://www.politico.com/story/2015/04/bob-corker-iran-bill-116629.html</a><br>
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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 10:16 AM, C. G. Estabrook <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:carl@newsfromneptune.com" target="_blank">carl@newsfromneptune.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Duckworth, a pro-war Democrat engineered into Congress by Rahm Emanuel in 2006 in order to exclude an anti-war Democrat, Christine Cegelis, will prove to be a “more effective evil” (in Glen Ford’s phrase) in support of Obama’s war policies. There may/should be a Green party candidate for the Senate in Illinois in 2016.<div><br></div><div>In 2006 “...Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.), the chairman of the Democratic Congressional
Campaign Committee (DCCC), handpicked Duckworth as the establishment
choice. Illinois’s U.S. senators, Democrats Barack Obama and Dick
Durbin, as well as Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Hillary Rodham Clinton
(D-N.Y.), aided Duckworth’s campaign…"</div><div><br></div><div>—CGE</div><div><br></div><div>[BTW, contrary to self-serving American political mythology about “Munich appeasement," British PM Chamberlain got a good agreement at Munich in 1938. It was the breaking of that agreement, not its implementation, that led to WWII in Europe. See Nicholson Baker’s important book:</div><div><b style="font-style:italic"><br></b></div><div><b style="font-style:italic">"Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization </b>(2008) is a history of World War II that questions the commonly held belief that the Allies wanted to avoid the war at all costs but were forced into action by Hitler's unforgiving crusade. It consists largely of official government transcripts and other documents from the time. In form it is similar to Sven Lindqvist's A History of Bombing (New York: New Press, 2001), which Baker includes in the book's copious list of references. Baker cites documents that suggest that the leaders of the United States and the United Kingdom were provoking Germany into war (showing, for example, that Britain bombed Germany before Germany bombed Britain) and that the leaders of those two nations had ulterior motives for wanting to participate…” and that a truce was possible before the Wannsee Conference.] </div><div><br></div><div><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div class="h5"><div>On Apr 3, 2015, at 7:54 AM, Robert Naiman via Peace-discuss <<a href="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net" target="_blank">peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a>> wrote:</div><br></div></div><div><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr"><div>we need to get rid of this guy in 11/16. Tammy Duckworth? I'd take Mickey Mouse. </div><div><br></div><div>[...]</div><div><div>And in a telephone interview, Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) reiterated that his leaders should give his sanctions bill a vote and blasted the president’s announcement and a top State Department negotiator, Wendy Sherman.</div><div><br></div><div>“I would say that Neville Chamberlain got a lot more out of Hitler than Wendy Sherman got out of Iran,” Kirk said.</div><div>[...]</div></div><a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2015/04/bob-corker-iran-bill-116629.html" target="_blank">http://www.politico.com/story/2015/04/bob-corker-iran-bill-116629.html</a><div><br></div><div>===</div><div><br clear="all"><div><div><div dir="ltr">Robert Naiman<br>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><div><span style="text-align:left"><a href="tel:%28202%29%20448-2898%20x1" value="+12024482898" target="_blank">(202) 448-2898 x1</a></span><br></div><div><span style="text-align:left"><br></span></div></div></div></div>
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