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

[C. G. Estabrook]

Look, the Democrats have pretended to be against the war since Obama ran for the
Senate (2004) and the Democrats were given control of the Congress (2006) on the
understanding that they would end the war.

They were lying - how consciously doesn't matter: the question is not of their
personal psychological state any more than that's the questions about Germans
in 1939 or South Africans in  1994.  The question is, what did they do?

The Democrats support the war effectively by arranging money for it.  It makes 
no difference how many face-saving (ass-covering, hand-wringing...) amendments 
they pass.  Even Pelosi, who arranged the charade, could vote no at some point...


On 7/9/10 7:33 PM, Stuart Levy wrote:
> 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>