<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Just Foreign Policy</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:info@justforeignpolicy.org">info@justforeignpolicy.org</a>></span><br>Date: Fri, Dec 6, 2019 at 10:44 AM<br>Subject: BREAKING: Rep. Smith GIVING UP on ending war on Yemen??<br>To: <<a href="mailto:naiman.uiuc@gmail.com">naiman.uiuc@gmail.com</a>></div><br>
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<p>Dear Robert,</p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">I have urgent and disturbing news: Rep. Adam Smith, Chair of the House Armed Services Committee and the lead Democratic Party negotiator for the defense policy bill (known as the NDAA),</span><a href="http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=OveoyT6oh8mL3drvn3xbl4HPaX%2FIQI%2Fs" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">made public remarks yesterday</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> indicating that he may be</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> abandoning the effort to end U.S. participation in the war on Yemen. </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Peace advocates like you and me, together with our allies in Congress, have worked for months to ensure that the amendment to end U.S. involvement in the Yemen war -- which passed the House with 240 votes -- would be included in the final NDAA. </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Rep. Smith was the lead sponsor of this amendment (known as the “Smith-Khanna-Schiff-Jayapal” amendment), which</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=y1SKOVHodTPR6x%2BscqCOp4HPaX%2FIQI%2Fs" target="_blank">experts say</a></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> could ground the Saudi warplanes. Smith has repeatedly assured us that he would fight for this amendment in the secretive NDAA negotiation process. He repeatedly told us that he would deliver results towards ending this war in the NDAA. </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Now Rep. Adam Smith says there may be nothing he can do for the millions of starving people in Yemen </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">-- </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">because he doesn’t want to limit the Saudi regime’s ability to go to war with Iran. </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Maybe we shouldn’t be shocked. Before thousands of activists like you pressured him, Adam Smith had a long history of hawkish behavior: </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">He voted for the Iraq War, when most Democrats in Congress were opposed</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">He</span><a href="http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=XeIHIo1BwtIj44%2BLLijc3YHPaX%2FIQI%2Fs" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">opposed</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> winding down the war in Afghanistan under Obama</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">He was one of </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">just 16 Democrats</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> who voted to continue sending horrific cluster bombs to the Saudi regime</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">His reelection campaign was directly</span><a href="http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Fbn0DW4ykeLt4ZkpoqgCrYHPaX%2FIQI%2Fs" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">funded</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> by the military industrial complex</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">But grassroots pressure from people like you moved him t</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">o join our effort for peace in Yemen. And today -- perhaps more than any other day -- </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">we need to make our presence felt by keeping his office phone ringing off the hook. Can you take a few minutes to call one or both of his offices?</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Rep. Smith’s personal office number is: </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(202) 225-8901</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Rep. Smith’s committee office number is: </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(202) 225-4151 </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">When you reach a staffer, you can say something like: </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">“I was shocked to learn that Adam Smith said he might give up on ending the Saudi war in Yemen in the NDAA. The lives of millions of people are at stake in the worst humanitarian crisis on earth. I strongly urge Rep. Smith to honor his commitment to fight for provisions in the NDAA to end U.S. participation in the war.” </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><b><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:13.3333px;white-space:pre-wrap">If you are on Twitter, can you retweet </span></font></b><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:13.3333px;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=msmDNRqdTFmw%2BGuLETMsKUiIxyudmwQR" target="_blank"><b>this tweet</b></a></span><b><span style="font-size:13.3333px;white-space:pre-wrap"> by our allies at Demand Progress who are also "sick of </span></b></font><b style="font-family:Arial"><span style="font-size:13.3333px;white-space:pre-wrap">two-faced cynical politics" and </span></b><b style="font-family:Arial"><span style="font-size:13.3333px;white-space:pre-wrap">urge people to call Rep. Smith?</span></b></p>
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