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Ocasio-Cortez praises war criminal John McCain
Alleged Democratic "socialist" Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, candidate for congress in New York's 14th congressional district, stated on her twitter "John McCain’s legacy represents an unparalleled example of human decency and American service." See https://twitter.com/Ocasio2018/status/1033538876370046977
Alleged Democratic "socialist" Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, candidate for congress in New York's 14th congressional district, stated on her twitter "John McCain’s legacy represents an unparalleled example of human decency and American service." See https://twitter.com/Ocasio2018/status/1033538876370046977
For starters, McCain's cancer was from the Agent Orange he dropped on the Vietnamese people, who also received cancer, birth defects and more. He requested a combat assignment at age 30. He was not a poor draftee looking for 3 meals a day; his father was a military officer. Most people avoided going to Vietnam in any way they could. The prime draft age was 18 to 25 because after age 25, the illusion of being a "war hero" and allowing some officer to tell you what to do is over. One version of his war criminal history may be found at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCain#Formative_years_and_education
Medea Benjamin, founder of a women's peace group known as Code Pink, had this to say about the infamous, late John McCain:
"@SenJohnMcCain called me a low life scum. I took it as a compliment coming from a man who bombed Vietnamese, pushed for war in Iraq, called for bombing of Iran and supported the Saudi destruction of Yemen." See
https://twitter.com/medeabenjamin
It is utterly reactionary to support the war machine and no socialist supports the war machine. This is so far the "best" the Democratic Party has to offer in new candidates this year. This is why we say the Democrat and Republican parties are the twin parties of war and fascism. Only the socialist Peace & Freedom Party and the Green Party are for peace.
For starters, McCain's cancer was from the Agent Orange he dropped on the Vietnamese people, who also received cancer, birth defects and more. He requested a combat assignment at age 30. He was not a poor draftee looking for 3 meals a day; his father was a military officer. Most people avoided going to Vietnam in any way they could. The prime draft age was 18 to 25 because after age 25, the illusion of being a "war hero" and allowing some officer to tell you what to do is over. One version of his war criminal history may be found at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCain#Formative_years_and_education
Medea Benjamin, founder of a women's peace group known as Code Pink, had this to say about the infamous, late John McCain:
"@SenJohnMcCain called me a low life scum. I took it as a compliment coming from a man who bombed Vietnamese, pushed for war in Iraq, called for bombing of Iran and supported the Saudi destruction of Yemen." See
https://twitter.com/medeabenjamin
It is utterly reactionary to support the war machine and no socialist supports the war machine. This is so far the "best" the Democratic Party has to offer in new candidates this year. This is why we say the Democrat and Republican parties are the twin parties of war and fascism. Only the socialist Peace & Freedom Party and the Green Party are for peace.
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"Politicians Grieve John McCain's Death with Touching Tributes," by Carla Herreria and Hayley Miller, 8/25/18 at
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/politicians-react-john-mccain-death_us_5b81f6a0e4b0cd327dfd51a0
We are reminded in an earlier article that John McCain opposed the making of Martin Luther King day a federal holiday and he opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1990. He later apologized on the holiday but not on the Civil Rights Act. See
"McCain Won't Apologize for Vote Against Civil Rights Act" by Sam Stein,
4/19/08 at
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/11/mccains-other-controversi_n_96193.html
Here is Bernie Sanders' statement from the above article:
"John McCain was an American hero, a man of decency and honor and a friend of mine."
John McCain is no friend of anyone who is for peace, civil rights, or anything else that is necessary for the workingclass to survive and thrive. Bernie Sanders is no socialist; he is an utterly reactionary warmonger.
However, the U.S. Imperialist Empire that controlled and initiated the Unjust war of aggression against the Vietnamese people, ended their twenty one year war against Vietnam's independence and sovereignty and the entire people of Indo-China only when they had killed five million Indo-Chinese people and were defeated by the heroic fighters for liberation from all empires, including the U.S. and French Empire.
McCain was a war criminal, plain and simple, according to world law. Here is how the U.S. Judge who chaired the Nuremberg Trials says that verdict against him. "War is essentially an Evil thing.....to initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated Evil of the whole". Further he says that aggressive war is the supreme international crime whether Germany does it or the U.S.A. does it.
McCain also violates the Charter of the United Nations, and that Charter says it forms the United Nations to make war just a long distant memory for the coming generations. That charter was formed from the liberation side of the fighters of the second world war. First Canadian Division knows that they fought to end aggressive wars as any nations policy and so that peace on Earth would come forward by ending the WMD--=weapons of mass destruction and making all technology to improve the working and living conditions on our beautiful planet.
The Geneva Conventions of war follows through to point out that targeting and killing of civilians is a war crime, torturing and killing of P.O.W.s is a war crime, collective punishment is a war crime. All these three anti-fascist covenants stand forever opposed to aggressive war as any nations foreign policy.
McCain ignored and violated all of them by joining in the U.S. Imperialist Military and killing the Vietnamese peoples and their freedom and independence, which Ho-Chi-Minh says " freedom and independence is most precious". China and Russia agree and supported the courageous Vietnam fighters for their freedom and independence from Imperialist France and Imperialist U.S.A. The Peoples Republic of China, the USSR and the Peoples of the world gave great support to the liberation fighters of Vietnam. For truth and opposing propaganda and lies of the U.S.A., that even today is still killing millions of people around the globe and pretending their aggressive war policy is legal as foreign policy while ignoring the world laws set in motion against WMD-weapons of mass destruction. The U.S. government figures WMD can be used exclusively by the U.S.A., but they are wrongheaded, by all the liberation sides they are guilty Supreme International war criminals-- number one globally.
End pollution causing fossil fuel wars of destruction, by re-tooling peacefully as possible to wind, tidal, and solar power that transforms to electricity, and is more power than all the fossil fuels combined. Egalite' pour la femme dans la revolution. Voila! Workers of the world unite!!