Sanders only choice to push back against perpetual war

Ending US perpetual war may be the most important issue in the 2020 election. In 2016 it was the issue that dare not speak its name but is slowly moving up the list in public polling. Americans are growing weary of 18 years of senseless, self destructive war costing trillions while causing death, injury, and exile to millions in the Middle East and Africa. It may spell doom to the American Experiment if not drastically curtailed. Bernie Sanders is far ahead of every other announced or likely contender on the peace issue. He's not a Bernie Come Lately. He voted against 16 of 19 gargantuan military spending bills since 2013. He sports an 84% record voting for peace between 2011 and 2016 according to Peace Action (working for peace since 1957). He's leading the Senate effort to end our murderous, criminal abetting of Saudi atrocities in Yemen by invoking the never used War Powers Act of 1973 which takes back war making powers from the president. Bernie supports withdrawal of all US troops from Afghanistan and Syria, and opposes reckless military intervention in Venezuela. Bernie's not perfect, taking $366,000 from the defense industry for his 2016 campaign, where he avoiding pushing his antiwar bonafides. But his recent efforts signal he may go where no Democrat has gone since George McGovern campaigned against the Vietnam War in 1972. Losing 49 states to 1 and 61% to 38% in the vote cast a pall on any Democrat, or Republican for that matter, ever running as a peace candidate. But we in the peace movement must never give up, never give in. We're backing Bernie.