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Staying vigilant after November 4th
7:32AM ON
10/10/2008
BY
Dave Segal
Good piece by David Swanson, who’s dead on in his criticism of Obama’s foreign policy stances and advisers. He rightfully still advocates a vote for Obama, but makes this important point:
At best, Obama plans to decrease the U.S. presence in Iraq while increasing it in Afghanistan and elsewhere, enlarging the overall imperial forces with which to pursue such occupations. While that is not — let me stress v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y — a reason to vote for McCain, it is a reason not to take the last three weeks of November or the month of December off. This will be the most important time ever for the peace movement to be organized and active.
October 10th, 2008 at 9:36AM
ethan Says:
Thank god some of you democrats say this. I’m terrified that he’ll get into office and everyone will relax and think that the guy who casually refers to Venezuela as a rogue state and insists that Iran is trying to get nuclear weapons (and MUST NOT BE ALLOWED TO GET THEM because, you know, Israel is totally unarmed and defenseless) will be all progressive justice, all the time.
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