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

[Robert Naiman]

Right. I forwarded it because I thought JH gave an interesting and
informative analysis, not because I agreed with the headline, which,
as you note, doesn't in fact summarize the article. That's her style
of headline-writing, but besides that, she does very interesting
reporting.

On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 2:38 PM, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu> wrote:
> [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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Robert Naiman
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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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