Remember Kent State!

[sfc_oliver]

So very true, we did not find WMD in Iraq. However for any who doubt we had just cause to go into Iraq please read the Duelfer report carefully. And then consider that Saddam himself claimed that he wanted everyone to believe he had WMD because he was afraid Iran would think he was weak and attack him.

Was Iraq a mistake? No;  the war itself was fought with absolute perfection. It was winning the peace that Rumsfeld and Bush screwed up.

[irishbobcat]

Towntalk, both scenarios you presented would require any political leader to respond with an appropriate military response.

The same can not be said for our current middle-east military campaigns. There were no WMD's and Saddam Hussan was not in cahoots with Bin Laden...

[Towntalk]

I think that everyone wants peace, that's a no brainer in the world of ICBM's and nuclear weapons, but the question I have to ask is peace at what price.

Just what would the position of the Green Party be if some rogue country launched a nuclear attack on us?

Just what would the Green Party suggest if that rogue country launched a nuclear attack on one of our allies?

[irishbobcat]

Remember Kent State!

Vote for the Green Party May 4th.



May 4, 2010 is the 40th. anniversary of the Kent State shooting during an anti-war Vietnam protest by students at Kent State University.  This May 4th is also primary elections day in Ohio and the Green Party of Ohio is on the ballot for the first time. The Green Party is a peace/anti-war party. 

In the spring of 1970, the Nixon administration orchestrated the overthrow of the Cambodian government, setting up a military dictatorship and paving the way for a U.S. invasion.  After 11 years of war in Vietnam the American people were growing weary of the cost, in lives and money. Growing numbers were coming to mistrust politicians who were claiming that the war was aimed at stopping Communism and achieving freedom for the Vietnamese people.  Across the country student protest had increased both in numbers and militancy. 

Here in Ohio, student protest rocked the political establishment on April 15, 1970 when 300 students staged a sit-in at the Navy ROTC building at Miami University. That day there were widespread campus demonstrations called by the Student Mobilization to End the War and the Vietnam Moratorium. At Miami the Black Students Action Association who were demanding an increase in black enrollment, joined the anti-war/anti-draft protesters occupying the ROTC building. Over the next two weekends there were protests in communities and campuses throughout Ohio. From Ohio University to Bowling Green from Case Western to Wright State, students were standing up against the war. At Ohio State University 1500 Ohio National Guard were deployed during campus protests the last weekend in April.  650 students were arrested.

         At Kent State there was a sharp confrontations between police and student protestors.  On Saturday night May 2nd, an unknown arsonist burnt the Army ROTC building to the ground.  Governor Rhodes called out the Guard and on May 4 they fired into protests killing 4 and wounded 15. Across the U.S. campus and communities erupted into massive protest against the war, the draft and the shooting at Kent State. Hundreds of college campuses were shut down as students went on strike, the largest in US history. In Mississippi two black students were killed the next week. Black and white students united in calling for black studies courses, more minority enrollment at colleges and opposition to the war.

After 7 years of the Iraq war, 9 in Afghanistan, the bombing of Pakistan, now expanding into Yemen and the failure of peace in Palestine, the Middle East is a mess. President Obama has escalated the war in Afghanistan against the interests of both the American and Afghani peoples. Billions of dollars are being squandered in this quagmire, money that could be used to create jobs here in the US. Both the major parties are pro-war. Both are using the threat of terrorism to manipulate the American people into supporting aggressive wars that benefit US corporate interests.

American foreign policy is aimed at making the world safe for US corporations. In another example in Central America, our government likely helped engineer the overthrow of a progressive president in Honduras and is tacitly supporting a military crackdown there.

Obama has taken Bush's "blank check" issued by the US Congress to wage unconstitutional and immoral wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The Green Party stands for peace. On May 4th, ask for Green ballot and vote for peace.



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