OK, I’ve had about enough of this nonsense. The Horror! It has to stop. War has to stop. We have to get the hell out of Iraq, lock stock and barrel, period.
I’m dropping my support of Obama and will support neither Clinton nor Obama. Instead pressure has to be applied on both of them to promise to really get us out of Iraq.
Cennad has a post A Peace Movement… ‘So’ which contains a link to this great article by Naomi Klein and Jeremy Scahill, Anti-war campaigners have to change electoral tactics.
Klein and Scahill state that “Neither Clinton nor Obama has a real plan to end the occupation of Iraq, but they could be forced to change position”. Let’s hope this is possible.
Here’s the key paragraph from Klein and Scahill:
In sharp contrast to this downsized occupation is the unequivocal message coming from hundreds of soldiers who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. Iraq Veterans Against the War which, earlier this month, held the Winter Soldier hearings in Silver Spring, Maryland - modelled on the 1971 Winter Soldier investigation, in which veterans testified about US atrocities in Vietnam - are not supporting any candidate or party. Instead they are calling for immediate, unconditional withdrawal of all US soldiers and contractors. Coming from peace activists, the “out now” position has been dismissed as naive. It is harder to ignore coming from the hundreds who have served - and continue to serve - on the frontlines.
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