[Peace-discuss] The People Have Spoken: Americans want Bachmann off the Intelligence Committee

[Robert Naiman]

I'm all for trashing US policy on Iran and Syria, as you know. But we
can do both.

I think the Bachmann scandal is strategic. It's like the Army-McCarthy
hearings. She "went too far." She hates Muslims "more than she is
supposed to."


On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 12:23 PM, Carl G. Estabrook
<galliher at illinois.edu> wrote:
> This may be a matter of straining at a (Minnesotan) gnat-ivist & swallowing a (Kenyan) camelopard if we don't go directly after Obama's murderous policies toward Syria & Iran.
>
> Obama, having ripped up the Constitution on war-making (& other matters) beyond his predecessors, is ready to expand his Mideast killing on whatever schedule is seen to benefit the 1% (and his electoral chances).
>
> This week we've already had an executive "finding" that supports civil war in Syria and a lop-sided vote in Congress "punishing" Iran. The child-killer in the White House can increase the killing at will. --CGE
>
>
> On Aug 2, 2012, at 9:34 AM, Robert Naiman <naiman at justforeignpolicy.org> wrote:
>
>> The Daily Kos diary made the rec list - something that has happened
>> 3-4 times since 2006 when I began writing there. 273 recommended it,
>> 146 shared it. The vote in the poll was:
>>
>> "I'd like my Representative to advocate for Michele Bachmann's removal
>> from the House Intelligence Committee.
>>
>> Agree
>> 98%     708 votes
>> Disagree
>> 1%      9 votes
>> 717 votes"
>>
>> At Truthout, 2,300 "liked," 178 tweeted, 148 shared.
>>
>> http://truth-out.org/news/item/10653-former-us-officials-call-for-bachmann-to-be-replaced-on-intelligence-committee
>>
>> At Huffington Post, 1,032 recommended, 185 shared.
>>
>> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/former-us-officials-call-_b_1728771.html
>>
>> The masses get this. There's a limit to how many people we can engage
>> on what kind of waiver the President should have on the latest round
>> of Iran sanctions. But the masses understand Bachmann in a visceral
>> way. She is the Mean Girl, the Fourth Heather, the Slobodan Milosevic
>> of Minnesota, who rides to political power by bullying the weak and
>> the marginalized. They want her to be punished. They want her off the
>> Intelligence Committee.
>>
>> Not to press our advantage on this is to leave money on the table...
>>
>> --
>> Robert Naiman
>> Policy Director
>> Just Foreign Policy
>> www.justforeignpolicy.org
>> naiman at justforeignpolicy.org
>>
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Robert Naiman
Policy Director
Just Foreign Policy
www.justforeignpolicy.org
naiman at justforeignpolicy.org