Thursday, March 8, 2012

Statement in Opposition to War on Iran

8 March 2012

A statement by Greg Pason, Socialist Party candidate for U.S. Senate (New Jersey)


The war hawks were out in Washington this week and Senator Robert Menendez, was the lead bird. The call for war with Iran echoed through Congress and as the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) met in Washington DC, AIPAC lobbyists used the occasion to further flood Congress with calls to support aggression against Iran. Sen. Robert Menendez was a prime motivator of this call to war by co-sponsoring the pro-war resolution S. R. 380 which holds Iran to a standard regarding IAEA inspections and the Non Proliferation Treaty which Israel has repeatedly refused to obey...

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