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

[C. G. Estabrook]

The American bromide for more than a century was,

"With the Democrats we get war; with the Republicans, depression."

Recently they seem to be poaching on each other's territory.


E.Wayne Johnson wrote:
> 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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