[Peace-discuss] Recruit a Republican Against the War in Afghanistan

[E. Wayne Johnson]

What people tend to forget is that the Democrat Party is the War Party.  
Maybe you should point out
the cognitive dissonance of being Anti-War and a Democrat.

"Democrats claim lead as War Party"
<http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9E0CE7D81531E433A25750C2A96F9C946996D6CF>http://tiny.cc/warparty

"Historically, the Democratic Party has been the party of war in the 
United States, having actively maneuvered to involve the U.S. in the 
First World War, Second World War, Korea, and Vietnam in spite of 
considerable popular support for isolationism or nonintervention, 
particularly among Republicans. That continues to be the case in spite 
of the White House's unfortunate adoption of the neoconservative formula 
for world domination, which is derived from the neocons' Trotskyite and 
Straussian roots rather than from any genuine, conservative Republican 
tradition. "
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/giraldi.php?articleid=10760



On 9/3/2009 10:32 AM, Robert Naiman wrote:
> [I should point out here that Rep. Tim Johnson is spectacularly good
> on this issue. He was one of the seven House Republicans to vote for
> the McGovern amendment, and he also voted against the war supplemental
> - both when other Republicans were voting against it, and when they
> were voting in favor of it.]
>
> In an op-ed Tuesday in the Washington Post, conservative columnist
> George Will called for the U.S. to withdraw its troops from
> Afghanistan. Send George Will's op-ed to your representatives in
> Congress, and to every Republican you know. There's no plausible way
> to end support for this war in Congress without turning some more
> Republicans against it. And there's no law of the universe that says
> Republicans have to support endless war and occupation in Afghanistan.
> Many Republicans opposed the U.S. bombing of Yugoslavia in the Clinton
> adminstration. Come out, come out, anti-war Republicans. We need you
> now.
>
> http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/09/03-3
>
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/recruit-a-republican-agai_b_276183.html
>
> --
> Robert Naiman
> Just Foreign Policy
> www.justforeignpolicy.org
> naiman at justforeignpolicy.org
>
> Senator Feingold Calls for Timetable for U.S. Troop Withdrawal from Afghanistan
> http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/act/exit-afghanistan
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