[Peace-discuss] JFP 5/6: Will Obama Say Yes to Afghan Peace Talks?

[C. G. Estabrook]

Then why are you promoting this smokescreen resolution for the continuation of
the war?  Why not work for an ending to the war via a funding cut-off, as in
Vietnam and Nicaragua?


On 5/6/10 6:25 PM, Robert Naiman wrote:
> I already get all of Swanson's stuff, multiple times, because I am on many
> lists that Swanson posts too. I saw this days ago. Nothing is gained by
> sending me a 17th copy of Swanson's stuff.
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> On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 8:09 PM, C. G. Estabrook<galliher at illinois.edu>
> wrote:
>> "If they tell you they're voting for a toothless non-binding request for
>> an exit time-table, tell them a growing caucus opposing the funding sends a
>> stronger message and builds toward the ability to actually end the war.
>> Tell them the exit strategy approach, last summer, was rightly delayed
>> until after the funding vote, and then garnered 138 votes, to which the
>> president merely gave a one-finger salute. Let them know that ineffective
>> rhetoric is no substitute for action, and that you see through the use of
>> this 'timetable' vote as cover for funding an escalation. If they point to
>> peace organizations that will accept that excuse and only want their
>> support for the 'timetable' make clear that those organizations do not
>> speak for you."
>>
>> http://blogs.mayfirst.org/node/495
>>
>> On 5/6/10 5:28 PM, Just Foreign Policy wrote:
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>>> ... *VIDEO: Urge Congress to End* *the War in Afghanistan * Just Foreign
>>> Policy has made a short video to help publicize the McGovern bill and
>>> the importance of a timetable for military withdrawal from Afghanistan.
>>> http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/video/feingold-mcgovern
>>>
>>> <http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=IBKcfUpKAeBeCJCtatQl2jrQsLz6IVTa>
>>>
>>>
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