FW: Another Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?

["michael pugliese" <debsian@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

   Do I remember rightly, that only two Senators, Wayne Morse
from Oregon and Ernest Gruening from Alaska (?) voted against
the Tonkin Gulf resolution? Sen. Fulbright of Arkansas, later
told LBJ he rued voting for it. Michael Pugliese
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>Date: 9/13/01 11:39:02 AM
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>         Thursday, September 13, 2001
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>         * Another Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
>         * "Because We Embrace Freedom"?
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>FRANCIS BOYLE, fboyle@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>Professor of international law at the University of Illinois
College of
>Law, Boyle said today: "According to the facts in the public
record so far,
>this was not an act of war and NATO Article 5 does not apply.
President
>Bush has automatically escalated this national tragedy into
something it is
>not in order to justify a massive military attack abroad and
an apparent
>crackdown on civil liberties at home. We see shades of the Tonkin
Gulf
>Resolution, which the Johnson administration used to provide
dubious legal
>cover for massive escalation of the Vietnam War."
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>MATT ROTHSCHILD, mattr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, http://www.progressive.org
>Editor of The Progressive magazine, Rothschild said today: "President
Bush
>said that America was targeted 'because we embrace freedom.'
Not knowing
>with any certainty who the attackers were, it's hard to speculate
on their
>motives. But many groups in the Third World have grievances
that are more
>specific than the ones Bush mentioned.... The Pearl Harbor analogy
has
>frightening connotations. Two months after Japan's surprise
attack, the
>U.S. government rounded up Japanese Americans into internment
camps. Now it
>seems highly improbable that Arab Americans or Muslim Americans
will be
>rounded up, but what does seem quite possible is that the media's
obsessive
>focus on a non-differentiated Islamic fundamentalism -- mixed
in with
>nativist sentiment that is always on the shelf -- will create
a cocktail of
>hate crimes."
>
>RANIA MASRI, rania@xxxxxxxxx, http://www.peace-action.org
>A national board member of Peace Action, Masri said today: "In
Raleigh,
>N.C. -- where I live -- the local mosque received two bomb threats
the day
>of the attack. The Islamic School in Raleigh had to close --
due to fear
>for its students' safety. People driving by the mosque have
been spewing
>racist statements -- such as 'sand niggers go home' and 'death
to you all.'
>Several Arab women wearing Hijab had stones thrown at them from
passing
>cars, and have been spat on at the main university campus. In
pockets
>across the U.S. and Canada, the verbal threats have become direct
physical
>assaults."
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>DAVID COLE, cole@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Professor of law at the Georgetown University Law Center, Cole
said today:
>"In the past we have responded to acts of terrorism by clamping
down on
>basic civil liberties, by anti-immigrant actions, and by engaging
in
>unjustified and widespread guilt by association."
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>LARRY BIRNS, coha@xxxxxxxx, http://www.coha.org
>Director of the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, Birns said today:
"The
>Senate is ducking its responsibility in today's pro forma confirmation

>hearings on John Negroponte as the U.S. ambassador to the United
Nations.
>No public witnesses are being heard. While the Bush administration
has
>professedly become an apostle of democracy, it has selected
one of the most
>tainted figures of the Central American wars of the 1980s to
be its
>ambassador to the UN."
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>RYME KATKHOUDA, wbaiinexile@xxxxxxxxx, http://www.wbix.org
>A correspondent with WBIX, which is producing community internet
radio in
>Manhattan, Katkhouda witnessed the collapse of the World Trade
Center towers.
>
>For more information, contact at the Institute for Public Accuracy:
>Sam Husseini, (202) 347-0020; David Zupan, (541) 484-9167
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