[Peace-discuss] Fwd: [ufpj-activist] 98 Challengers and 115 Incumbents Oppose War $

[C. G. Estabrook]

  No, Gill's specifically attacking Johnson for voting against H.R.5822 
("Military Construction and Veterans Affairs and Related Agencies Appropriations 
Act, 2011")  - as Johnson is pledged to do.  Gill says that by his vote Johnson 
is not supporting the troops, in the vacuous Bush phrase - and asserts that he 
(Gill) would vote for such a bill.

So it's Johnson who's "rejecting any funding except to bring all our troops 
safely home" - and it's Gill who's saying he wouldn't do that, contrary to what 
he said on Swanson's list.  it's pretty clear who's being consistent.  --CGE


On 10/12/10 5:53 PM, Morton K. Brussel wrote:
> I don't believe that Gill is attacking Johnson for his votes against further 
> war funding; it's on other issues—such as health care.
> --mkb
>
>
> On Oct 12, 2010, at 5:44 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
>
>> Gill's name appears on this list as agreeing that "It's time for Congress to 
>> reject any funding except to bring all our troops safely home" - but he's 
>> trying to run with the hares and hunt with the hounds by attacking Johnson 
>> for actually voting that way!
>>
>> He's obscured his position to the point that we in fact have a real choice on 
>> the war in Illinois’ 15th Congressional District.
>>
>> Incumbent Congressman Johnson voted for the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq 
>> – and now says that he was wrong to do so.  He has pledged to vote against 
>> any more money for war in the Mideast – and is voting  that way.
>>
>> But Democrat Gill has been nowhere near so forthcoming. His website contains 
>> no statement on the war, while Johnson's anti-war votes are of course public. 
>> Gill has at different times supported and opposed the occupation of 
>> Afghanistan – but refuses to admit that he’s changed his position.
>>
>> I have no brief for Tim Johnson’s politics in general – I ran against him as 
>> the Green party candidate for Congress in 2002 – but his votes against war in 
>> the Mideast contrast sharply with David Gill’s studied ambiguity (to put no 
>> finer point upon it).
>>
>> Killing people is the most important thing that the federal government does, 
>> and they’re doing a lot of it these days in the Mideast – in our name. As 
>> Obama and the Democrats expand the war – in Afghanistan, in Pakistan, in 
>> Yemen, in Somalia, perhaps into Iran – the only way to stop it is for 
>> Congress to cut off the funding.
>>
>> Tim Johnson is voting to de-fund the war, but it’s not at all clear that 
>> David Gill would.  Those of us who want to end the war should vote for the 
>> incumbent.
>>
>> --CGE

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