[Peace-discuss] Re: [Peace] No War on Iran demo in Chicago

[Jenifer Cartwright]

The present admin only continued what the Clinton admin started -- NAFTA (and welfare to work my foot). The line went something like this: "The Clinton Admin created 2 million new jobs!" "Yeah, I know. my wife and I each have three of them." 
 
And re the military (w/ so many joining for financial reasons, as you say, Karen): the current admin (and Repos, including McCain) were unwilling to give returning service men and women college op$, because that would make it unnecessary for folks to re-up, which would deplete the military (all-volunteer military my foot).
 --Jenifer

--- On Sat, 7/26/08, Karen Medina <kmedina at illinois.edu> wrote:

From: Karen Medina <kmedina at illinois.edu>
Subject: [Peace-discuss] Re: [Peace] No War on Iran demo in Chicago
To: peace-discuss at anti-war.net
Date: Saturday, July 26, 2008, 10:41 AM

cge and mkb were writing about Code Pink's waffling and Medea Benjamin's
statement:
>"It’s not enough to simply say 'Troops out now.' Should we
be calling for talks with the Taliban? ... Should we advocate a timeline for the
withdrawal of U.S. troops and if so, based on what criteria?"


About a year ago I was participating in a campus demonstration spearheaded by
the Green party students but with loads of other groups participating. They
wanted one of the "demands" to be "troops out now". It was
fairly easy to convince them that it should be "troops home now".

Bring them home now. But even this I say with a little shudder -- the load on
society when they do come home is going to be tremendous. You of course realize
who we send when it is an all-volunteer operation: young people who felt that
their job prospects were not so good to start with. Now they will be coming home
damaged as well as jobless. Oh the things this administration has done to ruin
our young people and the economy. Heartbreaking.

-karen medina
 
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