Thursday, July 26, 2018

Congressman Roskam, take down this ad



The ad Congressman Roskam must take down is one of the must scurrilous and dangerous appeals to war I've ever seen in a political campaign. It's his internet ad trolling challenger Sean Casten for supporting the Iran nuclear deal with an exclamation point that Casten funneled billions to Iran under the deal. The congressman knows the 5 plus one Iran nuclear deal, agreed to by the US, Germany, Britain, France, China, the EU and Russia likely avoided war when struck in 2015. He knows it will live in history as the signature foreign policy achievement of the Obama administration. Yet, he never supported it, being a congressional backer of the war with Iran crowd composed of the extremist fringe of the US foreign policy establishment. Taking his cue from his self described wild card candidate Trump, Roskam backed America's pullout from the agreement, leading to histrionic outbursts from Trump he will annihilate Iran for even the hint of threats against America. The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists didn't move the Doomsday Clock to two minutes to midnight (nuclear war), the closest it's been since 1953, because of the agreement. The did it precisely because of Trump's uninformed and unhinged threats to world peace. The fact that Sean Casten supports sane efforts for peace is my single most critical reason to elect him to Congress. If Roskam continues to provoke war with that reckless ad, we should bring back LBJ's famous 'daisy ad' used against war lover Barry Goldwater in '64, graphically invoking the specter of nuclear war as reason to keep Goldwater away from the nuclear button. Not in the name of God, but in our name and that of world peace...Congressman Roskam, take down this ad.

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