In case you missed it, the Washington Free Beacon outlined Kyrsten Sinema’s anti-military past in a new story looking at how she led efforts to replace the U.S Defense Department with a federal “Department of Peace.”
According to the Beacon, the idea is a signature policy of “far-left anti-war doves” that has been “routinely dismissed as outlandish and far-fetched.” But Kyrsten Sinema’s “outlandish and far-fetched” ideas hardly stop at federal Peace Department. Sinema also…
- Backed shutting down Luke Air Force Base – which supports jobs for more than 85,000 Arizonans
- Denigrated our troops by comparing U.S. forces serving in Afghanistan and Iraq to terrorists
- Protested American troops starting “Day One” after 9/11, at least once donning a pink tutu
- Said the “real Saddam and Osama lovers” in the Iraq War were Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush
- And even opposed using violence against Osama bin Laden after he attacked our nation on 9/11
Sinema may be trying to sing a different tune now that she’s chasing a promotion, but her reckless record on national security makes clear she’s far too extreme for Arizona.
In case you missed it…
Sinema Championed Creation of ‘Department of Peace’
The Washington Free Beacon
Adam Kredo
September 20, 2018
https://freebeacon.com/national-security/sinema-championed-creation-department-peace/
Democratic Senate candidate Kyrsten Sinema once spearhead efforts to create a “Department of Peace,” a signature policy of far-left anti-war doves who view America’s efforts to defend itself internationally as overly aggressive and wrong, according to vote information viewed by the Washington Free Beacon.
Sinema, one of many far-left candidates across the country vying to turn Congress blue, pushed for several years as an Arizona state lawmaker to establish a “Department of Peace,” an effort championed on the federal level for many years by radical, anti-Israel politicians such as Dennis Kucinich, a former Ohio congressman known for outlandish proposals rejected by the plurality of federal lawmakers.
Sinema co-sponsored an Arizona initiative to form a Department of Peace in 2006, and was the lead sponsor of the effort in 2007 and 2008, according to information published by the Arizona state legislature.
Sinema’s state-level effort paralleled federal attempts to form such a department spearheaded by Kucinich.
Sinema’s support for this movement, which has been routinely dismissed as outlandish and far-fetched, is likely to fuel ongoing questions about her past associations with anti-Israel groups and radical leftist.
Those who have supported a Department of Peace have come under fire from more mainstream politicians who have described the idea as unserious.
Sinema has a history of backing far-left fringe groups, including some that have harshly criticized Israel as an occupying force.
Sinema dove into anti-Israel activism in the early 2000s, when she organized for the Arizona Alliance for Peace and Justice (AAPJ), a group whose members have denounced Israel’s “disproportionate” use of “violence and oppression.”
Sinema also once served as a spokesman for Women in Black, an anti-war group that was founded in part to support Palestinians during the Intifada.
In addition to her alliance with anti-Israel organizations, Sinema has thrown her support behind far-left causes, leading some to raise questions about what they described as uneven behavior.
The Free Beacon previously reported in 2003 that Sinema recalled “singing and spiraling” in a “pagan” dance pit during an anti-war protest rally.
Synema did not respond to a request for comment by press time.