Posted on 09/09/2013 1:20:06 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
A new anti-war ad by the left-wing advocacy group MoveOn.org highlights a growing foreign policy divide between President Barack Obama and the larger progressive movement that has long supported him.
“We never set out to spend eight years at war in Iraq… Or to be mired down for more than a decade of fighting in Afghanistan… So what should America expect if we rush into Syria alone, with no real plan for the consequences?,” says the video’s narrator.
“We already know: It gets worse,” the narrator continues. “Congress: The majority of Americans OPPOSE missile strikes in Syria.”
The video is billed as a TV ad, but MoveOn.org did not announce plans to run it on TV. It was released as progressives try to boost turnout at 150 anti-war candlelight vigils Monday evening.
Many congressional progressives already don’t support the intervention, which may worsen the war by aiding the jihadi groups fighting the Bashar al-Assad’s government. Also, several polls show a strike is deeply unpopular with both conservatives and liberals.
Broad GOP opposition may block authorization of the strike, further reducing the incentive for progressives to give their approval.
The Democratic-dominated Senate will decide whether to approve the strike on Wednesday. The GOP-led House is expected to hold vote next week.
MoveOn.org’s public opposition to the proposed strike will pressure progressives to vote against approval, and may also given them an easy way to explain their opposition to Obama’s current top priority.
“We are mobilizing the shared people power of 8 million MoveOn members to make sure our voices are heard… The chemical weapons use in Syria is tragic, but there are better ways to respond,” said a statement from MoveOn.org.
In 2002, Obama leapt from his obscure role as a state Senator in Illinois by loudly opposing the U.S invasion of Iraq.
“I don’t oppose all wars,” he said in 2002. “What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war. What I am opposed to is the cynical attempt by … armchair, weekend warriors in this administration to shove their own ideological agendas down our throats, irrespective of the costs in lives lost and in hardships borne.”
Obama withdrew all U.S. military forces from Iraq in 2010.
Without U.S. forces in Iraq, which sits between Syria and Iran, the U.S. has had few means to minimize Iran’s influence in Iraq, or to cut the transit of aid from Iran to Syria, or pressure Syria’s dictator to step down.
Without U.S. forces in Iraq, which sits between Syria and Iran, the U.S. has had few means to minimize Iran’s influence in Iraq, or to cut the transit of aid from Iran to Syria, or pressure Syria’s dictator to step down.
Okay, I think I see the problem.
Didn't Rumsfeld and many, many others warn Obama that it was unwise to withdraw all US forces from Iraq, and so quickly?
Chill out Moveon, the Syria attack will be unbelievably small. John Kerry is going to personally ring Assad’s doorbell and then run away.
Like a drunken binge in Vegas this thorny Syria imbroglio surely produces unsavory bedfellows.
Dear low-level Democrat voters: welcome to your party leaders. You are only important by providing votes to elect them to public office so they can loot the public treasury FOR THEMSELVES. What’s that old saying about there being no honor among thieves? Learn it because you are living it.
What did CPUSA tell them (American “progressives”) to do?
Wonder how much is “good cop, bad cop” from the Left.
I haven’t considered that; good thought.
Tell that to those that are still there.
That the useful idiots on the Left are only now being rallied by Soros to protest Obama’s wars and bombing campaigns reveal the complete and utter absence of an “anti-war movement” from the Left for the past 5 years.
The U.S. never leaves a nation voluntarily.
Depends on what you call “military”. He would say they are “peacekeepers”.
Same as how the “boots on the ground” in Syria will not be permitted to return fire.
Censure Obama and move on. Or censure Assad.
Move On knows that is the strategy that gets us through the rough times.
All bets are off though, if he also leaves behind a flaming bag of poo.
Now that’s funny!
He’s even already dressed for the part.
Hard to say it but I agree with move on pukes.
NO MORE WAR.
Let them kill each other, to hell with em.
What we are seeing is the last best hope for the globalist fascist financial oligarchy to keep the Internet from blasting the camouflage off their mangy hyena hide by the simple expedient of bringing about WWIII and a new feudal Dark Age. These warlord banking mafiosi are that freaking suicidal, just like their goose stepping mentor with the Charlie Chaplin moustache. We have the sad spectacle of Barack “Leon Trotsky” Obama humping the leg of Henry Kissinger in order to railroad this fiasco past the American citizenry. The nerve gas rationale is straight out of the Gulf of Tonkin playbook, a complete false flag provocation invented in the “Jeckyl Island” basement of Goldman Sach’s think tank bunker.
OK, so where’s Cindy Sheehan?
Agreed. I think Barry is looking for an out. He keeps pushing for action so he looks tough, but the real dim plan is to vote NO so the boy king saves face
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