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Re: 10/22: Local Congressmen to Announce 10/27 Mobilization

But that won't be the message delivered on 027 will it, Carl? ?

Are you or CAWI going to call for "filling the streets and making them "ungovernable"? Will Danny, or Bobby, or Jan echo that call? And offer to support those active duty soldiers who refuse to fight or antiwar vets who speak out against the war? Will they publically pledge not to authorize another dime in funding for the war? How about joining dangerous radicals like singer Willie Nelson in endorsing Cindy Sheehan's run for Nancy Pelosi's seat in Congress?

Will those local city council members on hand call on for their respective municipalities to adopt resolutions establishing sanctuaries for war resisters at home and halt collaboration with war profiteers like Lockheed, Boeing or Blackwater?

Will Dennis Gannon of the CFL call for industrial action - the kind already carried out by union longshoremen in San Francisco and Tacoma-Seattle who have embargoed arms shipments several times as "hot cargo"?

Fat chance.

Instead, we'll have a "few Members of Congress, Aldermen, top labor leaders and CBO leaders with a long history" treat us to the same arguments advanced in 2004 - the only way to end the war is to elect a Democratic President and secure a Democratic majority in Congress.

Forget about defunding the war, forget about impeachment. Instead we'll be urged to line up behind whatever candidate wins the nomination, including Hillary -- in the hope that just maybe, some troops will return home from Iraq by the end of her first term --- if they're not diverted to Iran instead.
 
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