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

[Robert Naiman]

With respect to Afghanistan, in the House of Representatives today,
you can say that both parties are the war party, or you can say that
the Republicans are the war party, but it would not be accurate to say
that Democrats are the war party.

I explained this in the piece. Briefly: when it came to a vote over
the summer, the majority of House Democrats voted no on the war, but
only 7 Republicans voted no (including, to his great credit, our Rep,
Tim Johnson.)

This matters because, as I explained in the piece, there is no likely
path to ending support for the war in Congress that does not involve
turning more House Republicans against it.

Where are our Ron Paul Republicans? Are they building pressure on
Republicans in Congress to vote no on the war? If not, why not?


On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 12:02 PM, E. Wayne Johnson<ewj at pigs.ag> wrote:
> 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://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
>
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> Robert Naiman
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> Senator Feingold Calls for Timetable for U.S. Troop Withdrawal from
> Afghanistan
> http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/act/exit-afghanistan
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Senator Feingold Calls for Timetable for U.S. Troop Withdrawal from Afghanistan
http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/act/exit-afghanistan