Two good antiwar reasons to elect a progressive President in 2008:
A. Pro-war politicians trying to convince Americans to support a new war against Iran say that Iran should be bombed because it’s a source of foreign fighters attacking Americans in Iraq. However, of 25,000 people captured by the United States in Iraq and suspected of being foreign fighters, only 11 have been from Iran.
B. Files seized by American soldiers from an insurgent camp in the desert listed details of over 700 foreigners who had come to Iraq in order to fight during the last year. None of the foreign fighters listed in those files were from Iran. 41 percent were from Saudi Arabia, and 18 percent came from Libya. Those two countries are described as “allies” of the United States by the Bush White House. In spite of this striking lack of evidence for a strong presence of Iranians fighting Iraq, right wing politicians continue to push for war against Iran.
(Source: The Guardian, November 22, 2007)
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Since when have the facts or reality bothered the neocon state of mind or their policies? And why have they gotten away with so much if Congress isn’t going along with it all?
In light of this, do you still think an election will solve our problems?
I’m not convinced that the 2008 election will “solve our problems”, but it does offer the opportunity to make things better.