[Peace-discuss] Palin Drives Libertarians out of Tea Party By: Jane Hamsher (mentions Iran)

[C. G. Estabrook]

[Or maybe it will work out the other way around.  There are important anti-war 
currents within the Tea Party movement, as Hamsher points out.  --CGE]


Tea party star Allen West, who raised over twice as much in the 4th quarter of 
2009 than Democratic incumbent Ron Klein (FL-22), says “We must get away from 
occupation warfare and nation building.”  Rand Paul, who is very likely to win 
Jim Bunning’s Kentucky Senate seat, would’ve voted against the war in Iraq and 
wants a constitutional declaration to continue the war in Afghanistan. [More 
precisely, he insists that the war in AfPak cannot constitutionally continue 
without a declaration of war in accord with art. 1, sect. 8, cl. 11 of the 
United States Constitution, which vests in the Congress the exclusive power to 
declare war --CGE.] Adam Kokesh is running as an anti-war candidate against 
Democratic Rep. Ben Ray Luján in New Mexico’s third congressional district 
(Lujan voted for the war supplemental)...


Robert Naiman wrote:
> Palin Drives Libertarians out of Tea Party By: Jane Hamsher
> http://firedoglake.com/2010/02/08/palin-drives-libertarians-out-of-tea-party/
> 
> 
> --
> Robert Naiman
> Just Foreign Policy
> www.justforeignpolicy.org
> naiman at justforeignpolicy.org
> 
> Change.org: End the war in Afghanistan
> Timeline for Withdrawal and Political Negotiations
> http://www.change.org/ideas/view/end_the_war_in_afghanistan_establish_a_timeline_for_withdrawal_and_begin_political_negotiations
> 

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