Behold further proof that the anti-war movement has very little to do with war. Code Pink is the same group that
disrupted numerous hearings on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, at one point even assualting Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice with fake blood on their palms.
This is the same Code Pink that shamefully disrupted a hearing in the House from General Petraeus in 2007.
Now they’ve conveniently discovered that America’s presence in Afghanistan is very important. I’m sure this has nothing to do with our new president, who just happens to be a Democrat.
What a difference a D makes.
“Code Pink, founded in 2002 to oppose the US invasion of Iraq, is one of the more high-profile women’s antiwar groups being forced to rethink its position as Afghan women explain theirs: Without international troops, they say, armed groups could return with a vengeance – and that would leave women most vulnerable.”
“We would leave with the same parameters of an exit strategy but we might perhaps be more flexible about a timeline,” says Benjamin. “That’s where we have opened ourselves, being here, to some other possibilities. We have been feeling a sense of fear of the people of the return of the Taliban. So many people are saying that, ‘If the US troops left the country, would collapse. We’d go into civil war.’ A palpable sense of fear that is making us start to reconsider that.”
“Code Pink says it will continue to oppose sending more troops to Afghanistan – a move facing heated debate in Washington – and advocate for more funding for aid and humanitarian projects instead.”
Byron York of the Washington Examiner saw this coming months ago and he was right…
“Remember the anti-war movement? Not too long ago, the Democratic party’s most loyal voters passionately opposed the war in Iraq. Democratic presidential candidates argued over who would withdraw American troops the quickest. Netroots activists regularly denounced President George W. Bush, and sometimes the U.S. military (“General Betray Us”). Cindy Sheehan, the woman whose soldier son was killed in Iraq, became a heroine when she led protests at Bush’s Texas ranch.”
“That was then. Now, even though the United States still has roughly 130,000 troops in Iraq, and is quickly escalating the war in Afghanistan — 68,000 troops there by the end of this year, and possibly more in 2010 — anti-war voices on the Left have fallen silent.”
It seems the left was staying silent just long enough to see what Obama was going to do. Now they’re re-shifting their positions to match his. It’s pathetic.
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