Will any major Democrat call for an immediate cease-fire?

[JackNewtown]

The silence from top Dems is deafening... :(

[Master Mahon]

1. I think good old Kucinich has with a few others.

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http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizationsORG/jvfp/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=4691

[JackNewtown]

14. Anyone in the Senate? Any prez contenders?

It is nice to see some calling for it but sadly they are peripheral in US politics. Their influence is limited to their districts, and in the cases of a few others, to a small segment of the national population, i.e., a slice of the progressive movement.

[Freddie Stubbs]

17. The OP asked for a 'Major' Democrat

[MrBenchley]

2. How about Ned Lamo--oh, never mind.

[longship]

3. I was going to ask, "Do you mean, other than Dennis Kucinich?"

But somebody else beat me to it.

Of course, we all know that you knew about him.

I, too, wonder when somebody *other* than Kucinich will come out for peace.

Any ideas here?

[jerry611]

4. Since when does a cease-fire equal peace???

A cease-fire is another name for a "pause" button. It doesn't solve the problem that sparked the war.

I don't want a cease-fire. I don't want a peace treaty. I WANT A SOLUTION!!! And the way I see it, there is no solution possible that allows Hezbollah and Hamas to remain armed. The terrorists must be disarmed. There is just no other way for there to be peace in that region. And if the terrorists cannot be convinced to drop their arms, there may not be any alternative other than war.

And people in that region that thinks all Jews need to be killed or that Israel needs to be annihilated probably are going to have to be removed from this planet. Civilization just cannot accept genocidal thinking in the 21st century.

[longship]

6. Me, too.

"Civilization just cannot accept genocidal thinking in the 21st century."

I agree with this, too. But I would extend it to all sides of the equation.

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

8. "Civilization just cannot accept genocidal thinking in the 21st century."

Brilliant. Simple, clear, nothing more really needs to be said. I wish you would post this as its own thread. Every nation in the world needs to make your sentence a credo. And then we need to live it.

Edit - oops - I meant this for Jerry 611. I hope he reads it.

[jerry611]

11. thank you

I guess the world still hasn't outgrown the "kill them all" mentality.

The terrorists are not freedom fighters. They do not have any similarity to our founding fathers. Our founding fathers did not promote the killing of British civilians. Their attacks were focused against the government and the military of the King.

The terrorists in the mid-east are intentionally killing innocent people or putting innocent people in extreme danger, and then they use those deaths to promote propaganda. That is not freedom fighting. And then these terrorists have the same philosophy that the Nazis had. They think their race and religion is superior to everyone else. And that Jews are to blame for everything and must all be killed. I thought that kind of thinking died in WW2. I guess I was wrong.

[sgxnk]

15. exactly

the founding fathers also did not call for destruction of england

whereas the terrorist leaders HAVE called for israel's destruction

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

16. You're welcome, although after rereading your post I am now a pretzel

"And people in that region that thinks all Jews need to be killed or that Israel needs to be annihilated probably are going to have to be removed from this planet. Civilization just cannot accept genocidal thinking in the 21st century."

Quite the conumdrum. It all goes back to that "Can the intolerant be tolerated?" question. The answer is , no, the tolerant cannot tolerate the intolerant, because then they would be signing their own death warrant.

[Master Mahon]

10. " I would extend it to all sides of the equation"

Precisely! Excellent comment.
One persons 'terrorist' is another persons 'freedom fighter'!

[JackNewtown]

13. Sadly, Kucinich is a peripheral figure in US politics

I don't consider him a major Democrat, and I don't think many people outside the progressive movement know anything about him.

[oberliner]

5. Not yet, other than Kucinich, but a major Republican (Chuck Hagel) has

"The sickening slaughter on both sides must end now. President Bush must call for an immediate ceasefire. This madness must stop," Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel, a possible candidate in the 2008 presidential election, said on the Senate floor.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060731/pl_afp/mideastconflictlebanon_060731203324

[TomClash]

7. No because the campaign contributions from . . .

AIPAC and friends will dry up.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

9. What!??? And, be labeled (Gasp!) "peaceniks" by Rush???

Why, what would 'murka think if the Democrats were to complain about the mere "birth pangs of the New Middle East."?.

What do you expect from our "leaders"? Courage? Ethics? Humanity?

Don't be silly. They have to be "practical" and "win the south".

[KG]

12. as recent history has shown, the dem party is decidedly pro-war.

the silence is really no surprise, is it?