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TexasTowelie

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Mon Jun 23, 2014, 11:45 PM Jun 2014

Most Congressional Warmongers Are Republicans, Of Course, But Plenty Of Democrats Are Too



Obama hasn't helped our country's image recover from 8 years of Bush-Cheney as much as everyone expected. In fact, the U.S. is looked at as the biggest threat to world peace--by far.

Over 12 years into the so-called "Global War on Terror," the United States appears to be striking terror into the hearts of the rest of the world.

In their annual End of Year survey, Win/Gallup International found that the United States is considered the number one "greatest threat to peace in the world today" by people across the globe.


Who sees America as the biggest threat? People almost everyone, including here in North America, where the U.S. is considered the top threat to peace by 37% of Mexicans, 17% of Canadians and 13% of… Americans--probably people who spend a lot of time watching John McCain, Kelly Ayotte and Lindsey Graham showboating on C-Span. Or maybe they tune into senile Califiornia Democrat Dianne Feinstein who said last week that "I think most important is that we take direct action now against ISIS."

Thursday, 23 House Republicans joined 142 Democrats in an attempt to require that no funds in the Department of Defense FY2015 Appropriations bill go towards combat operations in Iraq. That was an amendment Barbara Lee' proposed. Predictably, none of the Republicans being opposed this year by the Blue America candidates were among the Republicans who voted for peace.

With the exceptions of Paul Ryan and Sean Duffy, every Member of Congress from Wisconsin voted against financing more combat in Iraq, including Jim Sensenbrenner ®, Mark Pocan (D), Tom Petri ®, Ron Kind (New Dem), Reid Ribble ®, and Gwen Moore (D). We contacted Kelly Westlund, the progressive Democrat from Ashland who's running for the northern Wisconsin House seat currently held by Duffy. "Unlike Representative Duffy, who voted no on the amendment, I'm not willing to drag our service men and women into another prolonged conflict," she told us. "I don't want to provide any kind of military assistance until we have a better understanding of the situation and a plan to move forward… This is how a prolonged military presence starts. We must clearly define our objectives if we are providing assistance… The situation in Iraq is an extremely complicated and cannot be resolved immediately or with a simple solution. But, I am concerned with the President’s decision to send 300 military advisers to Iraq. Additional military force should not always be the answer.”

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