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Mike Prysner Speech: US Troops Out of Iraq! No US War on Iran!

2020-01-05T02:18:51.794Z

Mike Prysner gives a powerful anti-war speech at a demonstration against Trump’s bombing of Iraq and potential war against Iran on Jan 4th2020.

Bernie Sanders: Consistently antiwar, against Vietnam War, against Iraq War, against Yemen war, against prospect of war with Iran | Meet The Press

2019-05-20T21:16:47.210Z

"War should be the last resort. I've seen too much horror, I've talked to many veterans whose lives were destroyed by the war in Iraq. I will do everything I can to see problems solved diplomatically, rather than through war."

In an exclusive interview with Meet the Press, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) talks to Chuck Todd about his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination....

How False Testimony and a Massive U.S. Propaganda Machine Bolstered George H.W. Bush’s War on Iraq

2018-12-06T22:08:33.057Z

This is what propaganda looks like, people. Nayirah al-Sabah, with her crocodile tears and trumped-up testimony, was the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador to the United States, Saud Nasser al-Sabah, when she was coached by the public relations firm Hill & Knowlton, on behalf of their client, the Kuwaiti government, the inveterate enemy of Iraq, to make false claims on tv.

Bush Sr.'s 1991 invasion of Iraq depended on his former role as CIA director of disinformation, ginning up a war with phony evidence, such as this video testimony. Amnesty Intl fell for this war propaganda--hook, line and sinker. A few reporters went "off the reservation", such as Chris Hedges, to question the Bush Sr's administration's case for war in the Gulf, in 1991.

This was the beginnings of #fakenews in the late 20th century, used to convince the mainstream media and the general public to go to war, even when starting an unnecessary war is recognized as a war crime. This playbook was used against by Bush Jr. and Cheney to gin up the next U.S. invasion of Iraq, in 2003.

Full transcript of this critical journalism available at https://democracynow.org -

Barbara Lee's 9/14/01 Speech

2018-09-17T01:42:20.725Z

Prescient speech from 2001 : Barbara Lee explains her rationale for voting against the Authorization to Use Military Force in Afghanistan, citing the overly broad nature of the bill.

In an op-ed she published in the San Francisco Chronicle nine days later, she explained her vote by pointing out that the resolution “was a blank check to the president to attack anyone involved in the Sept. 11 events — anywhere, in any country, without regard to our nation’s long-term foreign policy, economic and national security interests, and without time limit.” She added: “A rush to launch precipitous military counterattacks runs too great a risk that more innocent men, women, children will be killed.”

For her lone opposition to the power grab by Bush-Cheney, and her principled defense of the U.S. constitution's separation of powers, Lee was deluged with rancid insults and death threats to the point where she needed around-the-clock bodyguards.

TPF reminds you that only Congress has the power to declare war. The president is the lackey of Congress, no more.

Rep. Lee's AUMF Repeal Amendment Passes Defense Appropriations

2017-07-20T14:01:10.307Z

The House Appropriations Committee surprised a lot of people late last month when they voted in favor of Rep. Barbara Lee’s (D – CA) amendment to the 2018 military spending bill, calling for the repeal of the 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) within eight months.