[Peace-discuss] [sf-core] 13th IL CD & Obama's wars

[C. G. Estabrook]

You're right, Mort, that "There is nothing about foreign policy, e.g., Iran, in Gill's statement."

Also, there is nothing about foreign policy - Iran or any of the rest of Obama's wars - on his website, either! 

Don't you think that silence speaks volumes? Doesn't it tell you that Gill in Congress will support Obama's mendacious "winding down the wars" - rather than voting against any more money for war in the Mideast and Africa, as Tim Johnson does?

I actually had you in mind - your condign outrage at Durbin's insistence that Iran was building a nuclear weapon and must be stopped - when I wrote this post, about Gill's sucking up to Durbin over the latter's endorsement. 

But Durbin is an apologist for the administration's shameful, murderous foreign policy. And I think Gill will be too.

The late Gore Vidal said, "The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so."

It will be with regret that I manifest such beauty the first time David Gill votes to fund more war. And I really hope that he won't do it.

But I actually have no wish "to undermine Gill's chances to win the congressional seat," given that his opponent is a Republican hack.

Under the circumstances, I'll probably vote for Gill, but I certainly wish he opposed Obama's wars the way Tim Johnson does.

Regards, CGE 


On Aug 10, 2012, at 11:29 AM, "Brussel Morton K." <mkb3 at mac.com> wrote:

> There is nothing about foreign policy, e.g., Iran, in Gill's statement. It seems to me, Carl, that you are grasping at straws in efforts to undermine Gill's chances to win the congressional seat. 
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> --mkb
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> On Aug 10, 2012, at 10:41 AM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
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>> Senator Durbin, when he last spoke in town, insisted that Iran was building a nuclear weapon & must be stopped.
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>> Our incumbent Congressman votes against this sort of warmongering. 
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>> Our new Congressman, whoever he is, apparently won't:
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>> http://www.gill2012.org/statement-of-dr-david-gill-on-endorsement-of-us-senator-dick-durbin/
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