[Peace-discuss] Our Senator, Mark Kirk, jumps the shark on Iran deal

[Robert Naiman]

Tammy D. would not be my first choice, and if anyone wants to make a
credible challenge to her for the Dem nomination, I'm ready. So far, looks
to be the opposite - every potential credible Dem challenger is standing
aside for Tammy D - their choice, not mine.

In Washington, the difference between pure evil and swings both ways makes
a palpable difference all the time. Kirk is pure evil. Tammy D swings both
ways.

So, for example, indicted Menendez just got replaced as the ranking Dem on
SFRC by Cardin. Cardin is AIPAC too, but he's not hyper-super-duper AIPAC
like Menendez. That change from hyper-AIPAC to just plain AIPAC is likely
to have a big impact in the coming Congressional fight on Iran.

http://www.nationaljournal.com/congress/menendez-s-foreign-relations-loss-is-white-house-s-gain-20150402
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/04/bob-corker-iran-bill-116629.html








Robert Naiman
Policy Director
Just Foreign Policy
www.justforeignpolicy.org
naiman at justforeignpolicy.org
(202) 448-2898 x1

On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 10:16 AM, C. G. Estabrook <carl at newsfromneptune.com>
wrote:

> Duckworth, a pro-war Democrat engineered into Congress by Rahm Emanuel in
> 2006 in order to exclude an anti-war Democrat, Christine Cegelis, will
> prove to be a “more effective evil” (in Glen Ford’s phrase) in support of
> Obama’s war policies.  There may/should be a Green party candidate for the
> Senate in Illinois in 2016.
>
> In 2006 “...Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.), the chairman of the Democratic
> Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), handpicked Duckworth as the
> establishment choice. Illinois’s U.S. senators, Democrats Barack Obama and
> Dick Durbin, as well as Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Hillary Rodham
> Clinton (D-N.Y.), aided Duckworth’s campaign…"
>
> —CGE
>
> [BTW, contrary to self-serving American political mythology about “Munich
> appeasement,"  British PM Chamberlain got a good agreement at Munich in
> 1938. It was the breaking of that agreement, not its implementation, that
> led to WWII in Europe. See Nicholson Baker’s important book:
>
> *"Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization *(2008)
> is a history of World War II that questions the commonly held belief that
> the Allies wanted to avoid the war at all costs but were forced into action
> by Hitler's unforgiving crusade. It consists largely of official government
> transcripts and other documents from the time. In form it is similar to
> Sven Lindqvist's A History of Bombing (New York: New Press, 2001), which
> Baker includes in the book's copious list of references. Baker cites
> documents that suggest that the leaders of the United States and the United
> Kingdom were provoking Germany into war (showing, for example, that Britain
> bombed Germany before Germany bombed Britain) and that the leaders of those
> two nations had ulterior motives for wanting to participate…” and that a
> truce was possible before the Wannsee Conference.]
>
>
> On Apr 3, 2015, at 7:54 AM, Robert Naiman via Peace-discuss <
> peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
>
> we need to get rid of this guy in 11/16. Tammy Duckworth? I'd take Mickey
> Mouse.
>
> [...]
> And in a telephone interview, Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) reiterated that his
> leaders should give his sanctions bill a vote and blasted the president’s
> announcement and a top State Department negotiator, Wendy Sherman.
>
> “I would say that Neville Chamberlain got a lot more out of Hitler than
> Wendy Sherman got out of Iran,” Kirk said.
> [...]
> http://www.politico.com/story/2015/04/bob-corker-iran-bill-116629.html
>
> ===
>
> Robert Naiman
> Policy Director
> Just Foreign Policy
> www.justforeignpolicy.org
> naiman at justforeignpolicy.org
> (202) 448-2898 x1
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