Pax-salon Mailing List: Fwd: How intelligence was twisted to support an attack on Syria

[Patty Guerrero (pattypax]

coleen knows what she is talking about.  please inform your email and other 
friends.  patty

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> Reply-To: "rowleyclan [at] earthlink.net" <rowleyclan [at] earthlink.net>
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> My old computer went kaput with all my e-mail addresses in it so I cannot 
> send out group e-mails and, in fact, I have to wait for people to e-mail me, 
> in order to even respond.  Terrible time for this to happen.  But please, the 
> upcoming vote on Syria needs to take priority!  We need more people to expand 
> their communications with others!  The vets for peace attending Bill Tilton's 
> recent fundraiser for Ellison didn't even know that Ellison had turned 
> pro-war!  Most people are not aware of the level of betrayal nor the level of 
> planned destruction that will occur.  This congressional "debate" is 
> occurring through all kinds of AIPAC lobbying and bribes, heavy duty pressure 
> is being brought to bear and possibly even the dirty info gained by NSA 
> spying is being used to blackmail some congresspersons.    
>  
> Please inform other citizens about what's going on.  We're hearing terrible 
> things about this not being a "limited strike" but a way to provoke war on 
> Iran and then move on to the long-planned "pivot to China" (of course Russia 
> first now) which was all part of the Project for New American Century and now 
> incorporated into current Pentagon Plans for US Superpower to achieve "full 
> spectrum dominance."  As well as using the new "Authorization to Use Military 
> Force" to fix the vagueness in the earlier AUMF on Afghanistan to expand 
> domestic spying and drone assassination, and further police measures to 
> control the US population.  The potential destructive consequences of 
> Congress allowing Obama this vast new war authority (on the global 
> battlefield, i.e. the world), will make Iraq truly look like a "cakewalk" by 
> comparison.   
>  
> People should realize that almost all of these politicians are simply liars. 
> (With the exception of Dennis Kucinich and Ron Paul who actually meant what 
> they said about the evils of wars of aggression.  And now Alan Grayson 
> attempting to take up the mantle along with Republican Walter Jones.)  And 
> yes, most politicians are also blind loyalists and some like Klobuchar have 
> power ambitions.  But when they talk peace, it's essentially meaningless.  
> The two "progressives" Ellison and McCollum have overnight become warhawks on 
> a par with John Kline (and McCain) and in some ways, they are worse because 
> at least Kline is genuine in his love of war but Ellison and McCollum are 
> even more dangerous as phony chickenhawks.  And although the "humanitarian 
> war" propaganda is effective, they are not that dumb.  We need to say it like 
> it is and not mince words.  For decades the Democrats have longed to be seen 
> as the tough, war party and shed their image of weakness on foreign policy.  
> Now they are getting their chance to become the War Party and basically, with 
> exception of Alan Grayson, they are wetting their pants with excitement for 
> the killing to begin.  Same as Republicans before the Iraq War.  (Of course 
> the Democratic Party's prior image was always wrong because it's usually been 
> Democratic presidents that have led the US into wars, i.e. Wilson, FDR, 
> Truman dropped the nukes, JFK-LBJ and Clinton all started wars).  
> 
> What's worse is that the two party system is based on a "divide and conquer" 
> strategy (same as US uses in foreign countries) based on blind loyalty to 
> one's "team" and this now is hampering most democrats from speaking out.  We 
> have to try harder to educate all people to be critical thinkers instead of 
> party loyalists.  And to speak truth to power!  The WAR POWER is now 
> Obama-Kerry and their "progressive" warrior sycophants.  We are living in a 
> terribly dangerous moment, just a few days of having the opportunity to speak 
> out to try and stop the insane march to wider war.
>  
> Coleen R. 
>