[Peace-discuss] Begin anew...

[Karen Medina]

I keep thinking that if we work for peace now, the next generation won't have to 
go through all this. But no, each generation will have to work for peace, and 
they will have to work for peace over and over and over again. 

Wasn't there a quote that said that 40% of the people will be liberal, and 40% 
will be conservative, and 20% will go back and forth? Maybe it was 45%, 45% and 
10%. 

-karen medina 

---- Original message ----
>Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:12:12 -0600
>From: "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at uiuc.edu>  
>Subject: [Peace-discuss] Begin anew...  
>To: Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at anti-war.net>
>
>[The following came from a fund-raising appeal from the excellent web-site 
><antiwar.com>.  An it has, in the words of Henry Kissinger, "the extra, added 
>advantage of being true." --CGE]
>
>
>"I will do everything in my power to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear 
>weapon. Everything in my power. Everything."
>	~ Barack Obama, speech to AIPAC, June 4, 2008
>
>If you thought the election of Barack Obama took the prospect of war with Iran 
>off the table, you were wrong. Our president-elect went on to say:
>
>"Let there be no doubt: I will always keep the threat of military action on the 
>table to defend our security and our ally Israel. Sometimes there are no 
>alternatives to confrontation."
>
>And let there be no doubt: he means it.
>
>Don't be fooled by Obama's stated willingness to engage in direct 
negotiations. 
>In the same speech, he declared that direct talks with Tehran would give us 
the 
>international support we need if and when the U.S. chooses to attack.
>
>Army recruiters are telling young people "Don't worry, we won't send you to 
>Iraq" now that a Democrat will soon be in the White House. Will they send 
them 
>to Iran instead? Pakistan? Surely they'll go to Afghanistan, where Obama has 
>promised escalation.
>
>The War Party is demanding the U.S. "do something" about Iran, and an 
>administration that feels it needs to prove its "toughness" may very well cave. 
>Israel's powerful lobby is pulling out all the stops and using its connections 
>in the incoming administration to make the case for confrontation.
>
>With the election of a new president, our job hasn't ended – it has begun 
anew...
>
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