[Peace-discuss] Peace Activists Protest DNC Attack on Steele for War Criticism

[C. G. Estabrook]

Bob--

Maybe this is simply delusional rather than disingenuous.

You ask for "a public statement that would ... commit that the Democratic 
National Committee, and anyone speaking on its behalf, will not represent 
support for the war in Afghanistan as the position of Democrats."

What would we have said of an otherwise serious person in 1968 who said "support 
for the war in Vietnam is not the position of Democrats" because 2/3 of 
Americans opposed the war?

How could we account for an assertion so obviously contrary to fact? Deluded? 
Disingenuous? Or would there be some other explanation for such a desperate 
attempt to save the reputation of the Democrats?   --CGE


On 7/10/10 12:03 PM, Robert Naiman wrote:
> The following letter was sent yesterday to the Democratic National
> Committee. As I noted yesterday, a key effect of Woodhouse's attack on
> Steele is the chilling of Republican dissent on the Afghanistan war -
> Republican dissent that war critics need in order to end it; and the
> letter attempts to counteract that effect and to pressure the DNC to
> not engage in this sort of attack on war critics in the future.
>
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/peace-activists-protest-d_b_641823.html
>
> --
> Robert Naiman
> Policy Director
> Just Foreign Policy
> www.justforeignpolicy.org
> naiman at justforeignpolicy.org
>
> Urge Congress to Support a Timetable for Military Withdrawal from Afghanistan
> http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/act/feingold-mcgovern
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