[Peace-discuss] Pro-war Dem vs. anti-war Rep in 15th IL CD

[E.Wayne Johnson]

Gill's and Tim Johnson's views on the war
are certainly consistent with the position of the parties
that I have heard all my life---
that the Democrat Party is the "War Party",
and the traditional position of conservatives is
to be non-interventionalist.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at illinois.edu>
To: "peace-discuss" <peace-discuss at anti-war.net>
Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2009 12:18 PM
Subject: [Peace-discuss] Pro-war Dem vs. anti-war Rep in 15th IL CD


> David Gill has announced that he will run for Congress again as a Democrat 
> in the 15th district, against the Republican incumbent, Tim Johnson.
>
> From the News-Gazette, September 22, 2009:
>
>   "U.S. Rep. Tim Johnson, R-Urbana, told a town hall meeting Monday night 
> that he plans to sponsor legislation calling for the immediate withdrawal 
> of American troops from Afghanistan ... Johnson said he is working with a 
> bipartisan group, including Reps. Ron Paul, R-Texas, Jim McGovern, 
> D-Mass., and Jerry Costello, D-Belleville, on the Afghanistan withdrawal 
> legislation..."
>
> The war in AfPak is part of the general US policy in the Middle East (what 
> the US calls "Central Command").  That policy has been to insist for 
> almost two generations now that the US control Mideast energy resources as 
> a geopolitical advantage over our economic rivals, notably Europe and 
> northeast Asia. (The US doesn't use much Mideast oil for domestic 
> consumption.)
>
> Gill, unfortunately, has embraced the mendacious Democratic party account 
> that we're killing people in AfPak to "stop terrorism" -- when of course 
> the real US policy in the region promotes terrorism, insofar as it's the 
> resistance against US invasion and occupation of the Middle East.
>
> From the News-Gazette, September 22, 2009:
>
>    "Gill said he would not support a total withdrawal of U.S. forces from 
> Afghanistan but would favor keeping 10,000 to 20,000 special operations 
> forces in the country 'with a very narrow mission to prevent any further 
> expansion of al-Qaida.'"
>
> --CGE
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