[Peace-discuss] Flyer for AWARE demonstration, Saturday 12/2

[David Johnson]

Nonsense Roger,

The military industrial complex and the wealthy 1 % make HUGE amounts of money because of wars. They want war !
As far as terrorists, most were created by U.S. government policies and others are directly and indirectly supported by the U.S. government in order to destabilize and be an excuse to expand wars and the profits that result from it.


David J.


-----Original Message-----
From: Peace-discuss [mailto:peace-discuss-bounces at lists.chambana.net] On Behalf Of Roger Helbig via Peace-discuss
Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2017 2:43 AM
To: C G Estabrook; Peace-discuss
Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Flyer for AWARE demonstration, Saturday 12/2

Bovine excrement - no one wants the wars, but no one wants terrorist attacks either - what you folks need is a terrorist incident in your home town -that might wake you up -

On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 12:46 PM, C G Estabrook via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
> PRESIDENT TRUMP IS NOT THE PROBLEM:
> ILLEGAL U.S. WARS AROUND THE WORLD ARE
>
> The US government is today making war around the world - and it’s 
> doing so without authorization from the U.S. Constitution or the U.N. Charter.
>
> If American leaders were put on trial today as German leaders were, at 
> Nuremberg after World War II, for “launching aggressive war,” they - 
> like the German leaders - would be hanged.
>
> The U.S. military is today killing people in seven Mideast and African 
> countries - Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Somalia, and 
> Pakistan (and on the other side of the world, in the Philippines). Thousands of U.S.
> troops are fighting in these countries, although most Americans don’t 
> know that.  In addition, the 70,000-member U.S. ‘Special Operations 
> Command’ is active in three-quarters of the countries of the world. 
> Their activities include kidnapping (‘rendition’), torture, and murder.
>
> President Obama was elected as an anti-war candidate, but in office he 
> sent thousands of additional U.S. troops into America’s longest war, 
> in Afghanistan. President Trump, who promised caution and 
> non-interventionism in foreign policy - and described Hillary Clinton 
> as a “trigger happy warmonger” - has now done the same thing himself.
>
> What both men knew is that, in spite of intense media propaganda, most 
> Americans don’t want U.S. troops engaged in foreign wars and don’t see 
> the killing as justified; both candidates had to seem to oppose the 
> wars, in order to get elected.
>
> But the ‘one percent’ - the U.S. economic elite - do want the wars.
>
> When World War II ended in 1945, the U.S. was the least-damaged major 
> country on either side, and controlled the world economy. America’s 
> wars since then - in Korea, Vietnam, Latin America, and the Mideast - 
> have killed between 20 and 30 million people for the purpose of 
> maintaining that control. Ordinary Americans have paid for these 
> vicious wars, but they haven’t profited from them.
>
> John Pilger wrote before the election, "The CIA has demanded Trump is 
> not elected. Pentagon generals have demanded he is not elected. The 
> pro-war New York Times - taking a breather from its relentless 
> low-rent Putin smears - demands that he is not elected. Something is 
> up. These tribunes of 'perpetual war' are terrified that the 
> multi-billion-dollar business of war by which the United States 
> maintains its dominance will be undermined if Trump does a deal with 
> Putin, then with China’s Xi Jinping. Their panic at the possibility of 
> the world’s great power talking peace – however unlikely – would be the blackest farce were the issues not so dire."
>
> We must demand that foreign military bases be closed, U.S. troops (and
> weapons) be brought home, and social support - including free medical 
> care, education, and a universal basic income - be provided for 
> Americans immiserated by generations of U.S. government wars.
>
> WRITE CONGRESS - DEMAND U.S. TROOPS & WEAPONS BE BROUGHT HOME Our 
> representatives in Congress from this area - and their email addresses 
> - are as follows:
>
> Representative Rodney Davis: <https://rodneydavis.house.gov/contact/>
> Senator Tammy Duckworth:
> <https://www.duckworth.senate.gov/content/contact-senator>
> Senator Dick Durbin: <https://www.durbin.senate.gov/contact/email>
>
> ~~~
>
> ANTI-WAR ANTI-RACISM EFFORT - on Facebook at <AWARE of Champaign 
> Urbana
> Illinois>
> ~ U.S. troops & weapons out of the Mideast ~ Medicare for all ~ 
> Universal basic income ~
>
>
>
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