[Peace-discussion] Vermont Green on Bernie Sanders

[michelle]

You're welcome, Henry, although I want to point out that, per Craig=20
Hill, Sanders is not only out of step with Green values on Palestine but =

also on Iran. He probably supported the Iraq war appropriations bills in =

the House, too.

Salaam,

Michelle

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Henry D. wrote:
> Thanks for this post. I have to admit I too often take for granted=20
> that progressives will be against the racist funding of violent terror =

> against the inhabitants of Palestine.
> I would welcome Bernie Sanders and some other folks into the Green=20
> Party but they would have to defend their position or agree to cut off =

> funds to Israel.
> Thanks again Michelle for putting my enthusiasm for a potential green=20
> into the realm of the ten key values.
> --hank
>
> */michelle <michelle@usol.com>/* wrote:
>
>     http://vermontrepublic.org/bernie_sanders_another_cog_in_the_bush_w=
ar_machine
>     Bernie Sanders: Another Cog in the Bush War Machine
>     Author: Craig Hill
>     Body:
>
>     Guernica was a little town in Spain, with approximately the
>     population
>     of Montpelier which was bombed to smithereens by the Nazi
>     Luftwaffe in
>     1937 in a conspiracy with Fascist Generalisimo Francisco Franco, en=

>     route to his destruction of the liberal Spanish Republic.
>
>     Not only were one-quarter to one-third of Guernicans murdered, but
>     the
>     destruction was targeted to hit civilian infrastructure in a
>     successful
>     dry run for the blitzkrieg on Poland soon to follow. The world
>     objected,
>     but did nothing to stop the warmongers of their day.
>
>     Not only were innocent civilians murdered in Lebanon, but the deadl=
y
>     efficient, precision-guided missiles targeted electric plants, wate=
r
>     facilities, hospitals, and even grocery stores, while leaving
>     Hezbollah
>     bases intact, as if the two enemies operate in a single bipolar min=
d.
>
>     Lebanon is the Guernica preceding Syria and, most importantly,
>     Iran. Our
>     secretary of state keeps telling us we don=92t approve of their
>     governments, which must be changed to something akin to the wreck o=
f
>     Iraq. Israel is sharing its findings of its destruction of Lebanon
>     with
>     its financial backers, U.S. taxpayers, through its partners in war,=

>     George W. Bush and Dick Cheney.
>
>     Congressman Bernie Sanders has voted his approval of Israel=92s rol=
e in
>     Lebanon, just as he has voted for the Iran Freedom Support Act, whi=
ch
>     authorizes Bush to change the government of Iran. Sanders is not th=
e
>     independent progressive savior Vermonters are constantly reminded
>     he is.
>     He is, rather, another cog in the Bush war machine. He has not been=

>     representing Vermont with his votes in Congress.
>
>     This is not about Bernie, but the system that has changed him.
>     It=92s not
>     the war that must be stopped; it=92s its organizers. In 2006, a vot=
e
>     for
>     Sanders is a vote for war.
>
>     Craig Hill
>     Green Party Candidate for
>     the U.S. Senate
>     Montpelier, VT
>
>
>     >
>     > Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2006 06:43:06 -0800 (PST)
>     > From: "Henry D."
>     > To: peacetalkbham@yahoogroups.com,
>     alabamaprogressives@yahoogroups.com,
>     > Change-links@yahoogroups.com,
>     > gpax discussion
>     > Subject: [Peace-discussion] Re: A socialist in the Senate!
>     >
>     > The Green Party welcomes Vermont Socialist Senator Bernie
>     Sanders and
>     > notes he is not with the Democratic Party of Barak Obama.
>     >
>     > We encourage him to evaluate and consider joining our party as
>     we run
>     >
>     > elections to provide a values not corporate profits agenda.
>     >
>
>
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