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

Thu Sep 3 12:22:28 CDT 2009

We are trying to get as many anti-war candidates elected as possible.  
Many are beginning to realize that
one should support like-minded candidates in what every state or 
district they are from.  Among the anti-War
Candidates we are supporting are Adam Kokesh and RJ Harris (both are 
anti-war veterans of the Iraq War).
Both will be at the Midwest Liberty Fest in October 
(http://www.midwestlibertyfest.com) as well as others
We are still building the list of anti-war congressional candidates.  I 
just found another candidate two days
ago who is running against Costello.

One group that is doing something is (http://www.retakecongress.com).  
Retake Congress will support
any candidate from any party if that candidate will sign the platform 
statement.

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On 9/3/2009 11:11 AM, Robert Naiman wrote:
> 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
>>
>> --
>> 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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