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Rep. Alan Grayson to Congress: Reject ‘Warmongering’ and Focus on Problems at Home

Sep 5, 2013
In the wake of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's voting 10 to 7 to authorize strikes on Syria, Florida Democrat Rep. Alan Grayson told "Democracy Now!" on Thursday: "I am very disturbed by this general idea that every time we see something bad in the world, we should bomb it. … The president has criticized that mindset, and now he has adopted it. It’s simply not our responsibility to act alone and punish this."

Raytheon Says Let’s Go to War!

Aug 30, 2013
The weapon manufacturer's stock surged roughly 10 percent while American war drums for Syria crescendoed over the past two months. Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Fla., recognizes the jump as an unambiguous reminder that profit is a cause for the war President Obama seems prepared to make. "Nobody wants this except the military-industrial complex," he said on a radio show Thursday.