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Martin Luther King, Jr.:

“I have a dream…to go to war?!”

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The Pentagon sank to a new low this week in their attempt to sell the Afghanistan War to the American people. At their Martin Luther King, Jr., Day observance, a Pentagon official actually claimed that if King were alive today, he might support the war.

This is simply not true. http://act.bravenewfilms.org/go/472?akid=1417.1058794.hi707v&t=4 <<<As shown in our new video, Dr. King could not have been more clear in his 1967 speech denouncing the Vietnam War:

“A true revolution of values will lay hand on the world order and say of war, “This way of settling differences is not just. …A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.”

More than 10,000 people died in the Afghanistan War last year alone. This year, the government plans to spend $107 billion on the war. We believe that if Dr. King were alive today, he would repeat his admonition to U.S. policymakers on their responsibility:

“I speak as one who loves America…The great initiative in this war is ours; the initiative to stop it must be ours.”

Martin Luther King, Jr., was a national hero who called on us to have the moral courage to stop another war that wasn’t making us safer and that wasn’t worth the cost. Help us fight the Pentagon lies. Spread the truth by sharing this video with your family and friends.

Sincerely,

Derrick Crowe, Robert Greenwald

and the Brave New Foundation team

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GOP’s Outreach to Women, Minorities Found Wanting

As MSNBC’s Steve Benen noted, the GOP’s outreach to minorities has hit a rough patch — again. Check out this parade of outrageous stories — all from just today:

1.

Republican Congressman comes out as a birther:

Another congressman takes a stand against

President Obama

and his “phony” birth certificate.

2.

GOP Senate candidate tweets racist attack on African-American opponent Cory Booker:

The tweet, which has since been deleted, read “#breaking just leaked – Cory Booker’s foreign policy debate prep notes,” and included an image of the

city of Newark

divided up according to various ethnicities.

3.

POLITICO publishes op-ed from conservative citing junk science questioning the intelligence of Hispanics:

Why is a major publication publishing a piece suggesting white people are smarter than Hispanics?

4.

GOP Congressman and Senate candidate Tom Cotton in 1997: A woman’s ‘deepest hope in life’ is ‘being a good wife and mother’:

A woman’s “greatest fear in life” is losing a man’s support, Cotton wrote.

5.

Scott Walker appointee fired after he called undocumented immigrants ‘Satan’:

The third-highest ranking member of Wisconsin’s Department of Transportation sees “Satan” when he looks at undocumented people.