[Peace] Apologies

[C. G. Estabrook]

I see I hit reply-all and sent this comment on "AWARE on the Air" to the peace
list rather than to the peace-discuss list (and following me others did the same).

My apologies.  --CGE

On 10/26/10 11:06 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
> The program tonight as broadcast showed a remarkable development to David
> Gill's views on the US war in the Middle East. (Gill is the no-hope
> Democratic candidate running against the Republican incumbent, Tim Johnson,
> for the local congressional seat.) He even struggled to modify the statement
> - his statement - read by a member of the panel at the beginning of the
> program!
>
> One can see why - that statement is a tissue of lies. What he said tonight -
> together with that statement - is a painful exercise in misrepresentation -
> both of his own views and those of his opponent. That has of course been the
> practice of the Democrats since the beginning of this phase of the Long War.
>
> See the statement here:
> <http://www.gill2010.com/issues/foreign-policy/afghanistan/>.
>
> We might actually get a debate on the war if people have a chance to see how
> disingenuous Gill's statement is - even with his "evolutions" on tonight's
> program.
>
> Gill's major charge against Johnson is that he "doesn't support the troops" -
> a made-up Bushism. But Gill's prevarications and misrepresentations have
> deprived the local voters of a real debate on the war - which looked liked
> happening, when Johnson said he was wrong to vote for the invasions of
> Afghanistan and Iraq, and pledged to vote against any more money for war in
> the Mideast - and he is voting that way. Gill still won't make that pledge,
> as a close examination of his statement shows.
>
> Both parties have worked hard to make sure that next week's election is
> meaningless - and have largely succeeded. It will not, most importantly, be a
> vote on the war. We should therefore be working to stir up people across the
> political spectrum on the military and economic betrayals of the current
> president and Congress.
>
> The question is, Whom are we going to allow Barack Obama to kill going
> forward, and why?
>
> Some people are talking about what Obama and the Democrats are actually
> doing. Contrast Chris Floyd's remarks, as follows, with Gill's evasions,
> above:
>
> "...Friends, it's very simple: if you support Barack Obama and the Democrats
> -- even if reluctantly, even if you're just being all sophisticatedly
> super-savvy and blogospherically strategic about it, playing the "long game"
> or eleven-dimensional chess or what have you -- you are supporting the
> outright murder of innocent people who have never done anything against you
> or yours. You have walked into a house, battered down the bedroom door, put
> the barrel of a gun against the temple of a sleeping child, and pulled the
> trigger. That is what you are supporting, that is what you are complicit in,
> that is what you yourself are doing."
>
> Full article at
> <http://chris-floyd.com/articles/1-latest-news/2035-obamas-finest-hour-killing-innocent-people-for-qmade-up-crapq.html>.
>
>  On 10/25/10 12:05 PM, Karen Medina wrote:
>> Dr. Gill is coming to talk with AWARE (the local anti-war, anti-racism
>> effort of Champaign-Urbana). Would you like to come and share your reasons
>> for being against this war with Dr. Gill? We would greatly appreciate it.
>>
>> Tuesday, October 26, 2010 5pm-6pm UPTV (in the Urbana City Council
>> Chambers) 400 South Vine Street, Urbana, IL A taping of AWARE on the Air
>> for Channel 6 that will air at 10pm Tuesday evening.
>