[Peace-discuss] Proposed flyer for Obama

[Ricky Baldwin]

Hi Carl-

Nice work.  Impressive record for a man with an
"anti-war" image, eh?  

Anyway, sorry this is getting to you quite late, but I
do have a couple of suggestions.  The first two are
pretty mundane: contact info for Obama and contact
info for AWARE.  

The third is a bit more onerous, but in thinking about
the fact that we missed the opportunity to do
something like this at Tim Johnson's event, it occurs
to me that a brief summary of his infamous record on
the subject might be in order (also with contact info
for him).

I suppose we might do the same for Durbin and have a
complete set, but we might also wait for him to show
his face (in person, that is, irrespective of his
recent appearance on Sesame Street -- which I'm sure
everyone on this list caught, naturally.)

I'm also thinking about Durl's excellent comment at
the meeting that we are not so much targetting Obama
(though his record is certainly worth exposing, as we
can see here) as taking an opportunity to promote our
own anti-war ideas.  Otherwise, I think it's pretty
much what we're after, and I particularly like the
slogans at the start.  Clarifies where we're coming
from right off.

My two cents, maybe worded a bit too fancily-
Thanks again for doing this.
Ricky

--- "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at uiuc.edu> wrote:

> [I'll make several hundred of these -- two sides of
> a single
> sheet -- for distribution at the Obama event,
> tomorrow at
> lunchtime.  Comments welcome.  --CGE]
> 
> 
>          *BRING ALL U.S. TROOPS HOME FROM IRAQ --
>      AND U.S. MERCENARIES AND CORPORATIONS AS WELL.*
>      *PAY REPARATIONS FOR THE DEATH AND DESTRUCTION 
>                THAT WE'VE BROUGHT TO IRAQ.*
>        *TELL SENATOR OBAMA TO WORK TO END THE WAR 
>           AND PUNISH THOSE WHO LIED US INTO IT.*
> 
> The junior senator from Illinois, Barack Obama, has
> done
> nothing to end the occupation of Iraq or to punish
> those who
> started this illegal war by deceiving us.  On the
> contrary, he
> has cooperated in the critical support that the
> Democratic
> party has given to the war and to US policy in the
> Greater
> Middle East -- a policy that has killed tens of
> thousands of
> people during this administration and may yet have
> even more
> catastrophic results.  Leading Democrats are now to
> the
> *right* of the Bush administration in calling for an
> expansion
> of the US military.
> 
> Obama, featured as the keynote speaker at the
> Democratic
> convention in 2004, was celebrated as a progressive
> figure
> when he was elected to the Senate, against token
> Republican
> opposition.  (He also had an unfunded independent
> opponent who
> supported both withdrawal from Iraq and universal
> health care,
> positions that Obama rejected.)  But his performance
> belies
> that description.
> 
> --The day before his convention speech, Obama told
> reporters,
> "There's not that much difference between my
> position and
> George Bush's position at this stage. The
> difference, in my
> mind, is who's in a position to execute."  In the
> speech Obama
> criticized Bush for invading Iraq "without enough
> troops to
> win the war, secure the peace, and earn the respect
> of the
> world" -- which remains the general Democratic party
> position.
> 
> --Obama voted twice (once in committee and once on
> the Senate
> floor) to confirm Condoleezza Rice, the national
> Security
> Adviser during the invasion of Iraq, as Secretary of
> State.
> 
> ----Like all but six of the Senate Democrats, Obama
> quite
> rightly voted against the confirmation of Attorney
> General
> Alberto Gonzales, the promoter of the torture policy
> and the
> Patriot Act, but he said he did so "At a time when
> we are
> fighting for freedom in places like Iraq and
> Afghanistan ...
> the seeds of democracy began to take root in Iraq
> ... we are
> engaged in a deadly global struggle with those who
> would
> intimidate, torture, and murder people for
> exercising the most
> basic freedoms..." In short, he echoed the
> administration's
> account of the war.
> 
> --When Illinois' senior senator, Richard Durbin,
> timorously
> raised the question of the administration's torture
> policy on
> the floor of the Senate, Obama failed to support
> him. 
> Instead, he rather timidly observed, after Durbin's
> tearful
> apology for doing such a thing, "...he should have
> said what
> he said somewhat differently.''
> 
> --Just two months ago Obama said, "It is a challenge
> now to
> try to fix the mess that has been made by this
> administration.
>  There aren't any easy answers. It would be
> irresponsible to
> just spout off without having thought through what
> all the
> alternatives -- and implications of those
> alternatives --
> might be ...  "I believe the president must take a
> realistic
> look at our current strategy and reshape it into an
> *aggressive and workable plan that will ensure
> success in
> Iraq*" [emphasis added].
> 
> --Paul Craig Roberts, a former Treasury
> undersecretary in the
> Reagan administration, writes this week, "With every
> poll
> showing majorities of Americans both fed up with
> Bush's war
> against Iraq and convinced that Bush's invasion of
> Iraq has
> made Americans less safe, the White House moron
> proposes to
> start another war by attacking Iran. VP Cheney has
> already
> ordered the U.S. Strategic Command come up with
> plans to
> strike Iran with tactical nuclear weapons ... The
> Bush
> administration is insane. If the American people do
> not
> decapitate it by demanding Bush's impeachment, the
> Bush
> administration will bring about Armageddon..." 
> 
> Shockingly, during his senatorial campaign, Obama
> supported
> the Bush administration's policy on Iran in
> principle.  On 25
> September 2004, the Chicago Tribune wrote, "U.S.
> Senate
> candidate Barack Obama suggested Friday that the
> United States
> one day might have to launch surgical missile
> strikes into
> Iran and Pakistan to keep extremists from getting
> control of
> nuclear bombs ... the United States should not rule
> out
> military strikes to destroy nuclear production sites
> in Iran,
> Obama said."
> 
> We must demand that Senator Obama work to end the
> war and
> punish those who lied us into it.
> 
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