[Peace-discuss] JFP 7/9: Peace Activists Protest DNC Attack on Steele Over Afghanistan

[Stuart Levy]

On Fri, Jul 09, 2010 at 07:17:30PM -0500, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
> That's ludicrous. Of course support of the war is the position of the 
> Democrats.

Well, it shouldn't be.  And it's *not* the apparent position
(based on their votes for the McGovern amendment) of a majority of
individual Dems in Congress, and more individual Dems in the US population,
who after all voted for peace in the last two elections.
This is a great way to make that point. 

We really have to hand it to Steele for tossing rope to the
establishment Democrats which they reflexively snatched and
tied into a noose.

> On 7/9/10 6:23 PM, Just Foreign Policy wrote:
>> ... This afternoon, leaders of several peace groups wrote to the DNC,
>> protesting the attack on Steele, and urging the DNC not to engage in such
>> attacks in the future, nor to present support of the war as the position 
>> of
>> Democrats: http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/node/643
>> <http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=rjuxcOEOk%2FDpqXM1nJ3Cnk%2Fh70vcu%2Ff3>
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