<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;" class="">And now I lecture in Tim Johnson’s politics classes at UIUC, and Josh Hartke (I think) writes novels.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Before leaving Congress, Tim changed his mind on US war-making and even joined other US representatives in a suit against the shameful Obama-Clinton attack on Libya.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I like to think I had something to do with that.<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Americans' revolt against the US government’s attack on SE Asia - in the military, which ended the draft, and at home - took almost a decade, after JFK’s invasion of S. Vietnam.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The revolt against the US government’s attack on SW Asia has taken even longer, owing to what the goverenmet learnt in the 1960s about misleading the public about war. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">That’s what President Bush I meant about defeating the "Vietnam syndrome” ( = the public’s aversion to killing people in Asia for the one percent’s profits).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">See the duplicitous account of the Vietnam war in Obama’s "The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream,” 2007. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">He became the first president to be at war throughout two terms (while pretending not to).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Regards, CGE </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 25, 2017, at 7:12 AM, Roger Helbig via Peace-discuss <<a href="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net" class="">peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-weight:bold;font-size:17px;color:rgb(168,42,40);line-height:30px;float:left" class="">15TH CONGRESS</span><table class="gmail-tblElectionResults" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" border="0" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; max-width: 750px; min-width: 750px; width: 748.8px; clear: both;"><tbody class=""><tr style="font-weight:bold;font-size:13px;color:rgb(51,54,99)" class=""><th style="border-bottom:3px solid rgb(51,54,99);border-left:1px solid rgb(81,85,159);width:251.6px;background-color:rgb(51,54,99);color:rgb(255,255,255);text-align:left" class=""> Candidate Name</th><th style="border-bottom:3px solid rgb(51,54,99);width:214.8px;background-color:rgb(51,54,99);color:rgb(255,255,255);text-align:left" class="">Party</th><th style="border-bottom:3px solid rgb(51,54,99);width:139.6px;background-color:rgb(51,54,99);color:rgb(255,255,255);text-align:left" class="">Votes</th><th style="border-bottom:3px solid rgb(51,54,99);border-right:1px solid rgb(81,85,159);width:102px;background-color:rgb(51,54,99);color:rgb(255,255,255);text-align:left" class="">% of Votes</th></tr><tr class=""><td style="border-bottom:1px solid rgb(81,85,159);border-left:1px solid rgb(81,85,159)" class=""><a href="https://www.elections.il.gov/ElectionInformation/CandDetail.aspx?CandidateID=6SxzBA06zdAVqSTXpGMX0w%3d%3d&ElectionID=koVW%2bgDFzfA%3d" style="color:rgb(64,93,173);text-decoration-line:none;padding-left:0px;font-weight:bold" class="">TIMOTHY V. JOHNSON</a></td><td style="border-bottom:1px solid rgb(81,85,159)" class="">REPUBLICAN</td><td style="border-bottom:1px solid rgb(81,85,159)" class="">134650</td><td style="border-bottom:1px solid rgb(81,85,159);border-right:1px solid rgb(81,85,159)" class="">65.2%</td></tr><tr style="background-color:rgb(234,234,234)" class=""><td style="border-bottom:1px solid rgb(81,85,159);border-left:1px solid rgb(81,85,159)" class=""><a href="https://www.elections.il.gov/ElectionInformation/CandDetail.aspx?CandidateID=GhvUohSvzzzK9B2eIfmzNA%3d%3d&ElectionID=koVW%2bgDFzfA%3d" style="color:rgb(64,93,173);text-decoration-line:none;padding-left:0px;font-weight:bold" class="">JOSHUA T. HARTKE</a></td><td style="border-bottom:1px solid rgb(81,85,159)" class="">DEMOCRATIC</td><td style="border-bottom:1px solid rgb(81,85,159)" class="">64131</td><td style="border-bottom:1px solid rgb(81,85,159);border-right:1px solid rgb(81,85,159)" class="">31.0%</td></tr><tr class=""><td style="border-bottom:1px solid rgb(81,85,159);border-left:1px solid rgb(81,85,159)" class=""><a href="https://www.elections.il.gov/ElectionInformation/CandDetail.aspx?CandidateID=UhNVEUN0U1j3JXTYapQARw%3d%3d&ElectionID=koVW%2bgDFzfA%3d" style="color:rgb(64,93,173);text-decoration-line:none;padding-left:0px;font-weight:bold" class="">CARL ESTABROOK</a></td><td style="border-bottom:1px solid rgb(81,85,159)" class="">ILLINOIS GREEN</td><td style="border-bottom:1px solid rgb(81,85,159)" class="">7836</td><td style="border-bottom:1px solid rgb(81,85,159);border-right:1px solid rgb(81,85,159)" class="">3.8%</td></tr></tbody></table><br class=""><div class="">from <a href="https://www.elections.il.gov/ElectionResults.aspx?ID=zSlj0mHwIc8%3d" class="">https://www.elections.il.gov/ElectionResults.aspx?ID=zSlj0mHwIc8%3d</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div>
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