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It does seem strange to lead with Pres. Obama. Trump is President
now, and primarily responsible for the current continuation of
bipartisan US war policy which Obama's administration pursued in his
time.<br>
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It would be good too, even in a brief flyer, to bring up US
provocations against North Korea - at least to mention it in the
subtitle along with Russia and China.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 09/28/2017 10:37 AM, Carl G.
Estabrook via Peace-discuss wrote:<br>
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font-family: Georgia;" class=""><b class=""><font class=""
size="5">AMERICANS ARE AGAINST U.S. WAR-MAKING</font></b></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; line-height: normal;
font-family: Georgia;" class=""><b class=""><font class=""
size="5">DEMAND AN END TO U.S. KILLING IN OUR NAME</font></b></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; line-height: normal;
font-family: Georgia;" class=""><b class=""><font class=""
size="5">Obama and Trump were both elected as anti-war
candidates.</font></b></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; line-height: normal;
font-family: Georgia;" class=""><b class=""><font class=""
size="5">In office, both increased the killing by sending
more troops to the Mideast </font></b></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; line-height: normal;
font-family: Georgia;" class=""><b class=""><font class=""
size="5">and continuing war provocations against Russia and
China.</font></b></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; line-height: normal;
font-family: Georgia;" class=""><b class=""><font class=""
size="5">~</font></b></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;
font-family: Georgia;" class=""><font class="" size="5">The U.S.
military is today killing people in seven Mideast and African
countries - <b class="">Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya,
Yemen, Somalia, and Pakistan</b>. Thousands of U.S. troops
are fighting in these countries, although most Americans don’t
know that. In addition, the 70,000-member U.S. ‘Special
Operations Command’ is active in three-quarters of the
countries of the world. Their activities include kidnapping
(‘rendition’), torture, and murder.</font></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;
font-family: Georgia;" class=""><i class=""><font class=""
size="5">President Obama was elected as an anti-war
candidate, but in office he sent thousands of additional
U.S. troops into war in Afghanistan. President Trump, who
promised caution and non-interventionism in foreign policy -
and described Hillary Clinton as a “trigger happy warmonger”
- has now done the same thing himself.</font></i></div>
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</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;
font-family: Georgia;" class=""><font class="" size="5">What
both men knew is that, in spite of intense media propaganda,
most Americans don’t want U.S. troops engaged in foreign wars
and don’t see the killing as justified; they had to agree, in
order to get elected.</font></div>
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</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;
font-family: Georgia;" class=""><b class=""><font class=""
size="5">But the ‘one percent’ - the U.S. economic elite -
do want the wars.</font></b></div>
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</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;
font-family: Georgia;" class=""><i class=""><font class=""
size="5">U.S. presidents have killed more than 20 million
people in wars around the world since World War II. That war
left the U.S. elite in an unprecedented position of world
economic dominance. U.S. wars since then - in Korea,
Vietnam, Latin America, and the Mideast - have had the
purpose of “maintaining the disparity,” as U.S. diplomat
George Kennan wrote in 1948.</font></i></div>
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</font></div>
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font-family: Georgia;" class=""><b class=""><font class=""
size="5">~</font></b></div>
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</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;
font-family: Georgia;" class=""><font class="" size="5">Ordinary
Americans have paid for these vicious wars, but they haven’t
profited from them. Most Americans are not aware of how much
of the world is appalled at what the U.S. government has done
in our lifetimes. It is a triumph of the American system of
propaganda and intellectual control - the most effective in
history - that Americans are able to ignore it.</font></div>
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</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;
font-family: Georgia;" class=""><i class=""><font class=""
size="5">For many years the U.S. has attempted to exercise
military control over the Mideast and its energy resources.
The U.S. doesn’t need oil from the Mideast, but Mideast gas
and oil are needed by America’s economic competitors in
Europe and Asia, and so control over them gives the U.S. a
major advantage over China, Germany, and other countries - a
chokehold which benefits only the American one percent. In
2003 the U.S. illegally invaded Iraq - and killed perhaps a
million people - and now has thousands of troops and
mercenaries throughout the Mideast.</font></i></div>
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</font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;
font-family: Georgia;" class=""><b class=""><font class=""
size="5">The U.S. government says that we’re fighting
terrorism, but we are in fact creating terrorists in
response to our invasions, bombing campaigns, and drone
assassinations, which have killed more than 5,000 people,
including U.S. citizens and hundreds of children. </font></b></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;
font-family: Georgia;" class=""><font class="" size="5">AWARE,
the Anti-War Anti-Racism Effort of Champaign-Urbana, joins
other anti-war groups in the United States and around the
world to call upon President Trump to</font></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family:
Georgia;" class=""><i class=""><font class="" size="5">~ (1)
establish a foreign policy based on diplomacy, international
law, and human rights;</font></i></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family:
Georgia;" class=""><i class=""><font class="" size="5">~ (2) end
U.S. wars in the Mideast and war provocations against Russia
(in Eastern Europe) and China (in the South China Sea), and
stop the drone assassinations;</font></i></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family:
Georgia;" class=""><i class=""><font class="" size="5">~ (3) cut
military spending by at least 50% and close the more than
700 foreign military bases (neither Russia nor China has
more than twelve); bring U.S. troops (and weapons) home; </font></i></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family:
Georgia;" class=""><i class=""><font class="" size="5">~ (4)
stop U.S. support for human rights abusers, notably Israel
and Saudi Arabia; and</font></i></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family:
Georgia;" class=""><i class=""><font class="" size="5">~ (5)
lead on global nuclear disarmament.</font></i></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; line-height: normal;
font-family: Georgia;" class=""><span style="text-decoration:
underline;" class=""><b class=""><i class=""><font class=""
size="5">ANTI-WAR ANTI-RACISM EFFORT - on Facebook at
<AWARE of Champaign Urbana Illinois></font></i></b></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; line-height: normal;
font-family: Georgia;" class=""><span style="text-decoration:
underline;" class=""><b class=""><i class=""><font class=""
size="5">~ U.S. troops & weapons out of the Mideast
~ Medicare for all ~ Universal basic income ~</font></i></b></span></div>
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