--In the midst of the invasion, the House passed House Concurrent Resolution 104, "Expressing the Support and Appreciation of the Nation for the President and the Members of the Armed Forces Who are Participating in Operation Iraqi Freedom." Sanders voted for it; Paul didn't.
--"'In my view, this war has been a disaster,' says Vermont Representative Bernie Sanders ... But, he adds, 'I think we can't just simply pull out and let that country go to chaos'" [TNR 20050524].
--"Rep. Ron Paul, a Texas Republican, called on Bush 'to order a phased and orderly withdrawal from Iraq'" [www.counterpunch.org/frank06152005.html].
As Cindy Sheehan has pointed out this week, there's a big difference between a demand for withdrawal (like Paul's) and acquiescence in the continuation of the war (like Sanders').
It was you, Doug, and not Cockburn, who proposed the across the board comparison of the two. Cockburn has consistently praised Paul for his anti-war stance and condemned Sanders as "that brass-lunged armchair bomber of Vermont" since the attack on Serbia, which again Sanders supported and Paul opposed.
You know Cockburn has no brief for wacko fundamentalism, Christian Reconstructionist theocracy, or retro-patriarchy. (But you'll admit that a political position that can unite you and Pugliese in consternation has a certain power.)
Regards, CGE
---- Original message ----
>Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 16:16:30 -0400
>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] AC on The Real Peace Ticket!
>To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>
>C. G. Estabrook wrote:
>
>>Probably because Paul has been a consistent opponent of the
>>war, if from a paleo-con/libertarian position -- which has
>>been the source of more principled criticism of the war than
>>what passes for liberalism in this country.
>
>Sure. Libertarians are good on civil liberties too. But
they're hell
>on the working class - and Paul is some kind of
retro-patriarch too.
>But Ace doesn't care about stuff like that much.
>
>Sanders is hardly prowar - his pullout stance sounds stronger
than
>Hagel's, in fact - but that's never stopped Ace from bashing
him. If
>you'd rather have Ron Paul in high office than Bernie Sanders
then
>maybe your politics are a lot different from what I'd assumed.
>
>Doug