Monday, August 10, 2009

Flip flopping on war

By Jim Winkler, General Secretary, General Board of Church & Society

I am sorry to report that this summer the war supplemental bill passed the U.S. Congress by a relatively narrow vote in the House of Representatives and an overwhelmingly large margin in the Senate. President Obama had promised that supplemental bills to fund wars were a thing of the past, but when “your war” becomes “my war,” apparently a shift in position accompanies the change in adjective.

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