How Much of a Warmonger is Your Congress Critter?

Here's your commie dirty fucking hippie post of the day, from Down with Tyranny: (warning: headline photo is graphic and disturbing - righteously so.)

Peace Action West is a foreign policy advocacy organization based in Oakland-- and we like what they're advocating... a lot. They foster broad-based civic activism with the goal of creating "a strong voice for peaceful and pragmatic solutions to global problems." Their activities serve as a bridge between the public and the officials who make decisions that affect the lives of millions of people, like members of Congress.

By mobilizing diverse constituencies though grassroots action we work to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons in the future while stopping the development, testing, spread and use of those weapons today; protect human rights around the world by controlling the global trade in lethal weapons; advance national spending priorities that meet the nation's real security and domestic needs; and promote resolution of international conflicts through cooperation and diplomacy.

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As Rebecca Griffith, political director of Peace Action West wrote, "One of our greatest challenges is a Congress full of politicians who scare easily when it comes to issues of war and peace. Whether it’s out of fear or lack of motivation, they just go along with the status quo. Every day we work to light a fire under these reluctant members of Congress, but every so often we get the chance to truly change the face of Congress."

This week Peace Action West released a useful congressional scorecard on foreign policy issues for every member of Congress. (Warning - large PDF file.)

It's a sad commentary on a Congress Rebecca accurately described above. There were 13 bills they used under the subheadings of Cutting Pentagon Pork, U.S. Relations With Iran, The Wars In Iraq and Afghanistan, War in Gaza, and Torture and Human Rights.

Every repug except Ron Paul scored at a level I'll call "Curtis LeMay." The failure of most Democrats to score better than 50 percent is a testament to how much 30 years of wingnut dominance has normalized foreign policy by knee-jerk violence.