NOVANEWSby Michael Carmichael
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An important message from PlanetaryMovement.org Michael Carmichael:
Diplomatic negotiations in Moscow earlier this week failed to resolve the crisis, and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has recently commented that Iran wants to entice an American attack in order to strengthen political support for their extremist theocracy. Talks will continue in Istanbul next month, but escalation now seems far more likely than resolution. The Obama administration is under tremendous pressure from many ill-advised Democratic members of Congress to abandon diplomacy with Iran and follow a path that would make war inevitable in the near term – a policy that would wreck the US economy and precipitate a deep and disastrous global economic depression. While much of the pressure is coming from warmongers like John Bolton (Ambassador to the United Nations under George W. Bush), who are working to undermine and sabotage diplomacy, it must be said that quite a few Democratic members of Congress support further diplomatic escalation and even another costly and counterproductive war.
Some of the leading Democratic hawks in the US Senate are named in my open letter to President Obama copied below in this email. The emergence of these Democratic pawns of the neocons represent a very dangerous threat to the Obama presidency – for they are mirroring the foreign policy of Mitt Romney.
Those of us who oppose another war need to speak out now to encourage President Obama to de-escalate the diplomatic situation with Iran.
The President needs to know that the American people support diplomacy and de-escalation — not war.
I just signed the Credo petition telling President Obama that we support diplomacy with Iran, not another unnecessary and costly war. One hundred and twenty-one thousand others have already signed this Credo petition.
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