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Around Oakland, you see “Barbara Lee speaks for me” bumper stickers. What you don’t hear is that Rep. Lee stood for all of us, alone, against the resolution for war in Afghanistan – not because she didn’t want to punish the attackers, but because she did not want to launch a war on emotion alone, and at the time of the vote, nobody had discussed the devilish details of this war against Terror(ism). And now we’re chest-deep in wars, and she was right.
