[Peace-discuss] VoteVets and their current campaigns

[C. G. Estabrook]

VoteVets.org seems to be another Astroturf (fake grassroots) group, well-funded 
presumably with money from Democratic party backers like the late unlamented 
"Americans Against Escalation in Iraq." Founded in 2006, they seem to have been 
part of the successful effort by the Democrats to co-opt the antiwar movement.

They support the expansion of the war in Afghanistan; see their press release on 
the day of Obama's announcement: <http://www.votevets.org/news/?id=0190>.

Their Board of Advisers has included war supporters like Tammy Duckworth, whom 
Rahm Emanuel used to destroy an authentic anti-war Democrat in an IL 
congressional election in 2006; former Sen. Bob Kerry; Leslie Gelb of the CFR 
and the "progressive" pro-war group National Security Network; Lawrence Korb of 
the Reagan DOD; et al.

They represent that Realist alternative to the Neocons that now shows itself 
more aggressive and violent in AfPak than the Bush administration was. --CGE


Karen Medina wrote:
> Dear Peace-discuss,
> 
> 
> I also think it is interesting what VoteVets.org has as information
> campaigns right now:
> * a TV ad responding to Rush Limbaugh's charge that veteran Brian
> McGough is a phony soldier for opposing George Bush's failed policy in
> Iraq.
> * StopIranWar.com
> * President Bush’s failed strategy in Iraq has led to a stronger al Qaeda
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