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<div>I would like to suggest that Tom Lantos is ONLY POSTURING and APPEARING to oppose</div>
<div>escalation of the war. I believe that Lantos, like many others, probably sees the Iraq</div>
<div>debacle as a lost cause, but WATCH OUT for him advocating a WIDENING of the war to</div>
<div>Teheran, Damascus, and Mogadishu. If it's all about Israel, and oil, and "Radical Islam"</div>
<div>equating with terrorism, then let's not be fooled by Lantos APPEARING to be opposed to</div>
<div>the surge of insanity. And please, don't ever suggest that Tom represents ME, his</div>
<div>constituent, in this district. Jeffrey in San Bruno</div>
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<div style="CLEAR: both">"The Way to do is to Be." Laozi</div>
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Sent: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 12:15 PM<br>
Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Tom Lantos of San Mateo<br>
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<div class=MsoPlainText><SPAN style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'">Dear Green Friends,</SPAN></div>
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<div class=MsoPlainText><SPAN style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'">California Congressman Tom Lantos of San Mateo (on the peninsula between San Francisco and San Jose), was the one and only bona fide war hawk in the Bay Area congressional delegation.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN></div>
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<div class=MsoPlainText><SPAN style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'">During the run-up to the war, the Peninsula Peace & Justice Center organized a sit-in at Tom Lantos’ office in San Mateo.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Several people were arrested.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN></div>
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<div class=MsoPlainText><SPAN style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'">Down on the street Paul George, PPJC director, asked me: “Hey Alex!<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Wanna do some mild civil disobedience?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Let’s just walk in front of the police cars while they are trying to take people away.”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN></div>
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<div class=MsoPlainText><SPAN style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">(I think Tian was there that day) </SPAN></SPAN></div>
<div class=MsoPlainText><SPAN style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"> </SPAN></div>
<div class=MsoPlainText><SPAN style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'">So we did.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Paul George strolled in front of the police car on the right and starting walking s-l-o-w-l-y from right to left. The officer yelled “Get out of the way! Move on!<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Move on!”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN></div>
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<div class=MsoPlainText><SPAN style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'">Just before Paul moved off to the left, I walked in front on the right side walking s-l-o-w-l-y from right to left. Several of us did this for several minutes. When they finally threatened to arrest us, we quit. But then another group started doing it. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN></div>
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<div class=MsoPlainText><SPAN style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'">*<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>*<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>* </SPAN></div>
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<div class=MsoPlainText><SPAN style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'">In the ensuring years, many people have applied heckling, cajolery, and gentle pursuasion to get Tom to rejoin the reality-based community.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This includes some brave souls who ran against him for Congress on the Green Party line.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN></div>
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<div class=MsoPlainText><SPAN style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'">Today, Tom Lantos is the new Democratic chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yesterday, I saw this exchange on the PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer: </SPAN></div>
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<div class=MsoPlainText><SPAN style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'"> </SPAN></div>
<div class=MsoPlainText><SPAN style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'">Posted from the Web Site of the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer</SPAN></div>
<div class=MsoPlainText><SPAN style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'">http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/politics/jan-june07/reaction_01-11.html</SPAN></div>
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<div class=MsoPlainText><SPAN style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'">TRANSCRIPT: SECRETARY RICE APPEARS BEFORE HOUSE</SPAN></div>
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<div class=MsoPlainText><SPAN style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'">KWAME HOLMAN: As for Secretary Rice, she also was on the other side of the Capitol by mid-afternoon, appearing before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. Tom Lantos, Democrat of California, is its new chairman.</SPAN></div>
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<div class=MsoPlainText><SPAN style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'">REP. TOM LANTOS (D), California: What the American people are looking for is a responsible plan for de-escalation and not escalation. The president last night provided a plan of escalation.</SPAN></div>
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<div class=MsoPlainText><SPAN style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'">.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>. </SPAN></div>
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<div class=MsoPlainText><SPAN style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'">REP. TOM LANTOS: You cannot unscramble an omelet. What is the logic behind expecting that approximately 20,000 additional troops, basically in a city, a metropolis deeply divided of five million people, can really turn the corner?</SPAN></div>
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<div class=MsoPlainText><SPAN style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'">It took 3 long years, </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'">3,000 American dead, 6</SPAN><SPAN style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'">00,000 Iraqi dead, c</SPAN><SPAN style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'">haos in Iraq and Lebanon and coming soon to Syria and Iran, but I guess this congressman is finally gonna start earning his pay as the people's representative of the voters of Northern California. </SPAN></div>
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