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Dr. Eowyn posted: "Last Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2013, in a bipartisan 10-7
vote, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved a resolution granting
Obama authority to conduct military strikes war on Syria. Approving the
Syrian resolution are 3 Republicans and 7 Democrats:" Respond to this
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<http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/author/eowyn2/> Senators who voted
for Syrian war got more defense industry
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[image: sell your soul]Last
Wednesda<http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/2013/09/04/senate-votes-in-favor-of-obamas-war-against-syria/>y,
Sept. 4, 2013, in a bipartisan 10-7 vote, the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee approved a resolution
<http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/sep/4/senate-committee-passes-resolution-backing-strikes/>granting
Obama authority to conduct military strikes war on Syria.
Approving the Syrian resolution are *3 Republicans* and *7 Democrats*:
- Jeff Flake (*R*-AZ)
- Bob Corker (*R*-TN)
- John McCain (*R*-AZ)
- Barbara Boxer (*D*-CA)
- Ben Cardin (*D*-CA)
- Chris Coons (*D*-DE)
- Dick Durbin (*D*-IL)
- Timothy Kaine (*D*-VA)
- Bob Menéndez (*D*-NJ)
- Jeanne Shaheen (*D*-NH)
Opposing the resolution are *5 Republicans* and *2 Democrats*:
- John Barrasso (*R*-WY)
- Ron Johnson (*R*-WI)
- Rand Paul (*R*-KY)
- Jim Risch (*R*-ID)
- Marco Rubio (*R*-FL)
- Chris Murphy (*D*-CT)
- Tom Udall (*D*-NM)
Guess what?
*The senators who voted in favor of Obama's war against Syria received an
average of 83% more campaign "contributions" from the defense industry than
the senators who voted against war.*
SURPRISE! . . . not.
[image: pro-war senators1]David Kravets reports for
WIRED<http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/09/syria-war-authorization-money/>,
Sept. 5, 2013, that the senators who had voted to authorize a Syria strike
received, on average, 83% more campaign financing from defense contractors
than lawmakers voting against war.
Overall, political action committees and employees from defense and
intelligence firms such as Lockheed Martin, Boeing, United Technologies,
Honeywell International, and others ponied up $1,006,887 to the 17 members
of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
<http://www.foreign.senate.gov/>who voted
yes or
no<http://www.politico.com/story/2013/09/syria-vote-senate-foreign-relations-committee-96290.html>
on
the authorization Wednesday, according to an analysis by
Maplight<http://maplight.org/>,
the Berkeley-based nonprofit that performed the inquiry at WIRED’s request.
Committee members who voted to authorize what the resolution called a “
limited<http://www.volokh.com/2013/09/04/thoughts-senate-foreign-relations-committees-narrow-version-syria-aumf/>”
strike averaged $72,850 in defense campaign financing from the pot.
Committee members who voted against the resolution averaged $39,770,
according to the data.
The analysis of
contributions<http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threatlevel/2013/09/kravets_090413.xlsx>from
employees and PACs of defense industry interests ranges from 2007
through 2012 — based on data tracked by
OpenSecrets.org<http://www.opensecrets.org/>
.
[image: pro-war
senators]<http://fellowshipofminds.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/pro-war-senators.jpg>
*Dick Durbin, John McCain, Timothy Kaine*
*The top three defense-campaign earners who voted “yes” were Sen. John
McCain (R-Arizona) at $176,000; Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Illinois) at $127,350;
and Sen. Timothy Kaine (D-Virginia) at $101,025.*
The top three defense-campaign earners who voted “no” were Sen. John
Barrasso (R-Wyoming) at $86,500; Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Florida) at $62,790;
and Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Connecticut) at $59,250.
H/t RIA Novosti
<http://en.rian.ru/world/20130905/183187824/US-Senators-Backing-Syria-Strike-Got-More-Defense-Cash-Than-Skeptics-Report.html>
*~Eowyn*
*Dr. Eowyn <http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/author/eowyn2/>* |
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