End Wars and Occupations IOT Monthly Conference Call - Progressive Democrats of America

 February 2012
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Introduction begins at 2:55 minutes. Tom Hayden was first speaker with a report on Iran. Right now, Iran is being fought at the level of a dirty/secret war. Priority now is to simply call people's attention to the issue. Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney have close connections to Israel. Rick Santorum supports Israel in an “End-of-Days” capacity. We should be prepared for an outbreak of war as that will probably happen by surprise.

Hayden then asked for inputs and got lots of good, sensible commentary. Iran is currently being restrained in its nuclear ambitions by IAEA restrictions. If the US maintains a peaceful dialogue, no nuclear war with Iran will begin. As they signed the NPT, they are not permitted to have nuclear weapons. Iran has good reason to want nuclear power as that would free up oil for export.

Lots of discussion as to where the proposed PDA statement was located.

Discussion then went to Barbara Lee's Resolution 780, a bill to end Afghanistan War. Not really clear on what the US hopes to accomplish by staying in Afghanistan. We should up the pressure on getting Congress to approve the resolution.

Drones are contributing very bad feelings to the US-Pakistani relationship.

More discussions on the website. PDA encourages members to use th Forum to communicate between conference calls. Using the Forum allows people to have discussions without having their inbox flooded with emails.

More commentary on Israel & possible nuclear war.