In the US, the race for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination continues. No Momentum Biden continues to be defined by his past actions. Why? Because Joe offers no future. He is the past.
"I helped lead the fight against NAFTA; [Vice President Biden] voted for it. I helped lead the fight against PNTR with China; he voted for it. I strongly opposed the TPP; he supported it. I voted against the war in Iraq; he voted for it," @BernieSanders.
A voting record is a voting record:
“I strongly opposed the Trans-Pacific Partnership; [Vice President Biden] supported it.
I voted against the war in Iraq; he voted for it." – @SenSanders
Joe is the man who chaired the Hill-Thomas hearing and he's the man who smeared Anita as a "liar" (see the late Senator Arlen Spector's 2000 memoir PASSION FOR THE TRUTH. He can't apologize to Anita Hill to this day. In fact, it was only this month that he bothered to call her in what can best be described as a "We good, right?" phone call. No, Joe, you aren't good. You owe Anita Hill an apology. The women of THE VIEW made that clear at the end of last week but even in a friendly and encouraging format, Joe couldn't apologize.
If he hadn't decided to run, he obviously would never have called Anita Hill -- that's all you need to know on that. He was fine without apologizing or making amends. But when he decided he was running, it was reach out to Anita time and hope Anita would fall in line for The Great White Male, right? Hope, she'd just go along with whatever Joe wanted.
That's not how it works. His inability to apologize and his inability to take accountability for his actions demonstrate that he is not fit to be president. He voted for the Iraq War yet insists he has no regrets. He gives Bully Boy Bush a medal and raves over him in a public speech. And this is who will save the country?
Obama picked Biden specifically to pander to moderate Republicans. The fact that he is being rolled out to lead us through a slow, painful repeat of 2016 is incomprehensible to me. They don’t even have to try when Americans are this deeply brainwashed
- "We don't need someone who voted for the Iraq War, for mass incarceration, and for the Bankruptcy Reform Act while voting against gay marriage, reproductive rights, and school desegregation," -@alexandrasiera
Biden voted for Bush's Iraq War, to gut welfare, to deregulate Wall Street, to ban 'partial-birth' abortion, doesn't support Net Neutrality, supports the failed drug war, silenced Anita Hill, and even wrote horrible 1994 Crime Bill
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/joe-biden-no-savior-progressives … #Biden2020
“I voted to go into Iraq, and I’d vote to do it again,” Biden said in August 2003.
In other news, ALJAZEERA reports:
Children born to Yazidi women raped by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL or ISIS) fighters will not be permitted to join the community in northern Iraq, the minority sect's faith leaders have said.
In a statement late on Saturday, the Yazidi Supreme
Spiritual Council said an earlier declaration stating "all survivors"
of ISIL crimes and their children would be accepted in the community did
not, as widely interpreted, "include children born of rape, but
[instead] refers to children born of two Yazidi parents".
The Yazidis. It's hard to feel sorry for them with their war hungry leaders who aligned with the neocons in DC. It's hard to feel sympathy for them when they are led by repugnant people who attack innocent children.
For those who've forgotten, the group labeled as "devil worshipers" by the international press throughout the first decade of the Iraq War suddenly got a rehab when they merged with the neocons to implore that more US troops be sent into Iraq. Apparently, their religion renders them ineffective in battle so they needed others to fight for them. For reasons they might want to address, the Iraqi military didn't feel the need to help them. The Kurdish peshmerga did and their thanks for that help was to be endlessly attacked by Yazidi leaders.
In the end, the Yazidi leadership just can't seem to get along with anyone.
Now they're saying that children should be discarded. MANORAMAOLINE explains, "Those who had children with IS fighters faced a difficult choice: either remain ex-communicated from their Yazidi relatives, or leave the children behind. Dozens who returned to the Yazidi heartland of Sinjar in northwest Iraq in recent months chose the latter."
Wow.
What a religion.
Stay away or abandon your child.
What a religion.
I think the world needs to register this. I think the world needs to grasp that the official Yazidi position is that children should be abandoned -- even infants.
And the world should grasp that and remember it so that the next time the Yazidis -- in all their pathetic splendor -- are unable to fight for themselves and are whining that they need help? Don't pick up the phone. Just let it ring.
People who scapegoat innocent children are not people you want as allies.
Their leadership is war like and demands one war after another. They've made known that the US should remain in Syria. I'm sorry, who asked them? If they think fighters need to be in Syria, why don't they take their delicate little asses over their themselves. They're so very good, the Yazidi leadership, at insisting others fight.
It's past time that the rank and file Yazidis either reject their leadership or accept that they're telling the world that they're okay with this.
What is being done here is appalling. It's truly an indecency. It's also how hate is bred and it is how never-ending wars are launched. These children will grow up feeling scapegoated and attacked and persecuted. It is perfectly natural that they will want to respond as adults. What kind of an idiot, what grown adult, sets that in motion?
It's the 21st century, unless you're a Yazidi leader. In which case, it's the Dark Ages.
The Yazidis begged for the world's mercy but they have no mercy for children? They have no compassion for the young mothers? If that's the message they want to send the world, they better grasp that the world is just fine letting the Yazidis isolate themselves through the next crisis and the one after and the one after that and . . . Humanitarian aids is pretty much predicated on the recipient acting like a member of the human race. It's going to be a lot harder next time to gin up support for a group that has forced young mothers to abandon their children.
The Norwegian Refugee Council notes:
“We face a
possible human time-bomb. Allowing these children to have an education,
healthcare, simply the right to exist, is key to ensuring a sustainable
future for them and for the country,” said Jan Egeland, Secretary
General of the Norwegian Refugee Council. “A society cannot be at peace
if it allows a generation of stateless children in its midst.”
The report ‘Barriers from Birth’ found that children born under IS rule were issued birth certificates by the group that are considered invalid in the eyes of the Iraqi government. Others lost their documentation as they fled. Without a valid birth certificate, one health official reported that newborns are unable to receive vaccinations in some areas, raising fears of new diseases. Children’s enrolment in Iraqi schools also requires ID. Sitting exams or obtaining graduation certificates is often not allowed without civil documentation. As they reach adulthood, these children risk being denied state recognized marriages, owning property or even being formally employed.
The chance of obtaining civil documentation is nearly impossible for children from families accused of IS affiliation, resulting in the collective punishment of thousands of innocent children.
“Children are not responsible for crimes committed by their relatives, yet many are denied their basic rights as Iraqi citizens,” said Egeland.
The number of undocumented children will increase significantly in the coming weeks with the expected return of more than 30,000 Iraqis from Syria, 90 per cent of whom are wives and children with suspected ties to IS militants.
As the Iraqi government and the international community continue to invest in restoring public services and institutions, it is critical to ensure communities most affected by the conflict with IS — many of whom are children — have the documents required to benefit from these services. This will guarantee Iraq’s road to recovery and reconstruction.
“Undocumented children risk remaining left on the margins of society if this issue is not addressed immediately. This seriously undermines future prospects of reconciliation efforts,” Egeland added. “We urge the government to ensure that undocumented children have the right to exist like any other Iraqi citizen.”
The report ‘Barriers from Birth’ found that children born under IS rule were issued birth certificates by the group that are considered invalid in the eyes of the Iraqi government. Others lost their documentation as they fled. Without a valid birth certificate, one health official reported that newborns are unable to receive vaccinations in some areas, raising fears of new diseases. Children’s enrolment in Iraqi schools also requires ID. Sitting exams or obtaining graduation certificates is often not allowed without civil documentation. As they reach adulthood, these children risk being denied state recognized marriages, owning property or even being formally employed.
The chance of obtaining civil documentation is nearly impossible for children from families accused of IS affiliation, resulting in the collective punishment of thousands of innocent children.
“Children are not responsible for crimes committed by their relatives, yet many are denied their basic rights as Iraqi citizens,” said Egeland.
The number of undocumented children will increase significantly in the coming weeks with the expected return of more than 30,000 Iraqis from Syria, 90 per cent of whom are wives and children with suspected ties to IS militants.
As the Iraqi government and the international community continue to invest in restoring public services and institutions, it is critical to ensure communities most affected by the conflict with IS — many of whom are children — have the documents required to benefit from these services. This will guarantee Iraq’s road to recovery and reconstruction.
“Undocumented children risk remaining left on the margins of society if this issue is not addressed immediately. This seriously undermines future prospects of reconciliation efforts,” Egeland added. “We urge the government to ensure that undocumented children have the right to exist like any other Iraqi citizen.”
Read more at: https://english.manoramaonline.com/news/world/2019/04/30/yazidi-council-disowns-children-of-women-taken-as-sex-slaves-by-is-men.html
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