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Date: Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 4:01 PM<br>Subject: How We Stopped a War - For Now<br><br>
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After three frenetic weeks, during which time Team Grayson was burning the </span></font>midnight oil every night, it's time to take stock of what we've accomplished.<br>
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Here were the headlines in late August, just before we started our campaign
against U.S. military intervention in Syria.<br>
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<b><span style="font-weight:bold">"</span></b><b><span style="font-weight:bold">Syria</span></b><b><span style="font-weight:bold"> crisis: </span></b><b><span style="font-weight:bold">UK</span></b><b><span style="font-weight:bold"> and US finalise plans for military strikes"</span></b>
- <i><span style="font-style:italic">The Guardian</span></i>, August 27.<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">"Syria strike due in days, West
tells opposition - sources"</span></b> - <i><span style="font-style:italic">Reuters</span></i>, August 27.<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">"Strike Against </span></b><b><span style="font-weight:bold">Syria</span></b><b><span style="font-weight:bold"> is Imminent"</span></b> - <i><span style="font-style:italic">Reuters</span></i>,
August 27.<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">"Obama Will Bomb </span></b><b><span style="font-weight:bold">Syria</span></b><b><span style="font-weight:bold">"</span></b> - <i><span style="font-style:italic">Politico</span></i>,
August 26.<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">"</span></b><b><span style="font-weight:bold">U.S.</span></b><b><span style="font-weight:bold">
military 'ready' to attack </span></b><b><span style="font-weight:bold">Syria</span></b><b><span style="font-weight:bold">, Hagel says"</span></b> - <i><span style="font-style:italic">CBS News</span></i>, August 27.<br>
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And here are the headlines, now:<br>
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<b><span style="font-weight:bold">"Obama to explore diplomatic route
on Syria,"</span></b> - <i><span style="font-style:italic">Reuters</span></i>,
September 10.<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">"</span></b><b><span style="font-weight:bold">U.S.</span></b><b><span style="font-weight:bold">
to Work Through U.N. on </span></b><b><span style="font-weight:bold">Syria</span></b><b><span style="font-weight:bold"> Arms Proposal"</span></b> - <i><span style="font-style:italic">The </span></i><i><span style="font-style:italic">New
York</span></i><i><span style="font-style:italic"> Times</span></i>,
September 10.<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">"Obama Agrees To U.N. Discussion Of
Putting </span></b><b><span style="font-weight:bold">Syria</span></b><b><span style="font-weight:bold"> Chemical Weapons Under International
Control"</span></b> - <i><span style="font-style:italic">Associated
Press</span></i>, September 10.<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">"</span></b><b><span style="font-weight:bold">Syria</span></b><b><span style="font-weight:bold"> Will Sign Chemical Weapons Convention, Declare Arsenal, Foreign
Ministry Says"</span></b> - <i><span style="font-style:italic">Reuters</span></i>,
September 10.<br>
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Let's go behind the headlines, to the numbers in Congress. <i><span style="font-style:italic">Bloomberg News</span></i> just came out with its
own count of how every single member of the U.S. House and Senate would
vote on war with Syria. In the U.S. Senate, which is institutionally
designed to favor war and bailouts, the war vote is losing 34-22. That's
shocking - <b><span style="font-weight:bold"><a href="http://cl.exct.net/?qs=ff357ffe0647353c0108d23e0efc442f7173ad06262704cb19ef0b12c6ff673b" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">the Senate is voting for peace?!</a></span></b>
In the U.S. House of Representatives, it's even better. House members
oppose war by a 10-to-one margin. <i><span style="font-style:italic">The
Washington Post</span></i> has it at 26 in favor, 251 against.<br>
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In other words, we are winning. <b><span style="font-weight:bold"><a href="http://cl.exct.net/?qs=ff357ffe0647353c0108d23e0efc442f7173ad06262704cb19ef0b12c6ff673b" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Peace is winning.</a></span></b><br>
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How did this miracle happen?<br>
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To answer that question, look in the mirror.<br>
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<b><span style="font-weight:bold"><a href="http://cl.exct.net/?qs=ff357ffe0647353c0108d23e0efc442f7173ad06262704cb19ef0b12c6ff673b" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">You did this.</a></span></b> Your calls and
e-mails. Your pressure. The military industrial complex, the
neoconservatives like Dick Cheney, the foreign policy corporate-funded
think tanks in D.C., the warmongers at the State Department - they wanted
war, but you wouldn't let them. <a href="http://cl.exct.net/?qs=ff357ffe0647353c0108d23e0efc442f7173ad06262704cb19ef0b12c6ff673b" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-weight:bold">We stood up
for peace.</span></b></a><br>
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Now, what's interesting is not just that we averted military action (so
far). It's also what has happened, because we averted military action. We
showed that successful diplomacy, shunted aside just a week ago as
irrelevant, is actually possible. <br>
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Think about this. We are on the verge of a solution that:</p>
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<li class="MsoNormal"><b><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold"><a href="http://cl.exct.net/?qs=ff357ffe0647353c0108d23e0efc442f7173ad06262704cb19ef0b12c6ff673b" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Removes chemical weapons from Syria</a></span></font></b>,
preventing another attack and putting them out of the reach of both
the Assad regime and Al Qaeda,</li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Does not require the use of dangerous
military force by the </span></font>United States,</li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Compels </span></font>Syria to become a signer
to the Chemical Weapons Convention,</li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Restores the role of Congress in matters of
war and peace, and</span></font></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Rejuvenates the United Nations as a platform
for peace.</span></font></li>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">This happened only because of our work. To his
credit, President Obama listened. He listened to Congress, to the voices of
allies around the world asking us to pause, and most importantly, to <b><span style="font-weight:bold"><a href="http://cl.exct.net/?qs=ff357ffe0647353c0108d23e0efc442f7173ad06262704cb19ef0b12c6ff673b" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">We the People of These United States</a></span></b>.
But you spoke, President Obama listened, and now peace may bloom.<br>
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Of course, we may still go to war - the war lobby is fierce and relentless.
Even as we speak, warmongers in Congress are writing new war resolution
language, thinking that if they tweak this word or that word, making it an
itsy-bitsy, teensy-weensy war, it can pass. To that, we say, "a big,
fat NO."<br>
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We have shown that Peace can be more powerful than War.<br>
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And hopefully, one day soon, we will not be arguing about where to direct
our bombs. If you and I keep working together, we will be trying to figure
out what to do with the fruits of peace - the Peace Dividend.<br>
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Courage,<br>
Rep. Alan Grayson<br>
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