Is the Millenium At Hand?
Perhaps so. Breitbart.com is reporting that members of Code Pink have been observed protesting against proposed intervention in Syria.
The protesters reportedly were seen at hearings of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs yesterday, where SECSTATE John “Christmas in Cambodia” Kerry was testifying. They reportedly wore signs saying “US Out of Syria” and held up hands painted red to mimic blood.
I don’t normally have much good to say about Code Pink. But I’ll give them this much: here, they’re being consistent – which in my experience is a rarity for those on their end of the political spectrum.
Category: Code Pink, Foreign Policy, Military issues, Politics
Tomahawk missile, one each: $1,5 million
Marines & amphib ship, per day: $3,5 million
Da pinksters protesting while kerry the sleazey expounds:
Priceless.
For everything else, bill the White House.
You know, when the leftists have lost Code Pink, they’re in deep kimchi.
Couldn’t happen to a more deserving group of jackwagons.
If I was a congressman or senator and I was a member of
one of those committees at the end of my questioning. Id
hold up a ribbon tree from Vietnam faded with piece of
grass and a few weeds sticking out and say, we found this
on the White House grounds Mr. Secretary, could these be
yours. Well wait a minute, I couldn’t do it, I’d have to have a combat vet do it. But I’d love to see his face
priceless.
Looks like other people think it’s stupid too:
From the Ayatollah Khameini in Iran:
http://www.breakingnews.com/item/ahZzfmJyZWFraW5nbmV3cy13d3ctaHJkcg0LEgRTZWVkGNu47RMM/2013/09/05/irans-ayatollah-khamenei-says-us-is-using-a-chemi
And from the Pope:
http://www.breakingnews.com/item/ahZzfmJyZWFraW5nbmV3cy13d3ctaHJkcg0LEgRTZWVkGLWV8RMM/2013/09/05/pope-writes-to-russias-president-putin-for-g-20
I’m tellin’ you, this fish stinks from the head, but good.
You know the world has gone mad when we and Code Pink are saying the same thing. Well, make that substantively saying the same thing. Different reasons, of course, but an eerily similar message. It really IS the Twilight Zone!
Sorry, but I disagree.
Code Pink being “consistent” does not mean they’re truly interested in peace. Their friendships with Iran (and probably Syria as well) make that clear. They would support this war if they had made partnerships with other factions.
They’re no different than George Galloway, who also opposes this war. He’s been in Iran’s pocket for years. He even had an internet “show” on Iran’s PressTV.
There aren’t all that many genuine peace activists.
What we need now is not just a regime change in…Iraq, but we need a regime change in the United States.
Boston Globe, April 3, 2003
Truer now than when he first spoke them, thanks John Kerry for always being a turd…
RandyB: I never did say they were legitimately interested in peace, amigo. I said they were being consistent.
As I recall, they’ve consistently opposed direct US military involvement in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and against US RPV strikes in Yemen. They’re are now opposing US military involvement in Syria.
We didn’t send US forces to Tunisia or Egypt. Code Pink was OK with that.
Give them their due: agree with them or not, they’re being consistent – for whatever reason. In my experience that’s rather rare from “Progressives”.
Speaking of consistency, or lack there of, a CNSNews article had this:
As Secretary of State John Kerry – and Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel – beat the war drums for a senseless bombing of Syria, let’s take a look back at what they said before they caught the humanitarian interventionism bug, which is a highly unstable way of conducting American foreign policy.
In 2004, the New York Times reported that then-Democratic candidate for president John Kerry “made a sweeping attack on the competence of the entire administration, declaring that America’s military should know he would never ask them’ to fight a war without a plan to win the peace.”
In 2007, then-Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.) warned that we needed “to get our young men out of the middle of a civil war.” He was talking about Iraq when the Bush administration sent an additional 20,000 troops to Baghdad.
Now, with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton saying she “supports the President’s effort to enlist the Congress in pursuing a strong and targeted response to the Assad regime’s horrific use of chemical weapons,” according to POLITICO – which seems odd since she said in 2008 that, “Obama wavers from seeming to believe that mediation and meetings without preconditions can solve some of the world’s most intractable problems to advocating rash unilateral military action without cooperation from our allies in the most sensitive region of the world.”
All of a sudden, they’re war hawks. We have no plan to win the peace. We have no plan in general. We’re calling the removal of Assad a “limited action.”
– See more at: http://cnsnews.com/mrctv-blog/matt-vespa/kerry-hagel-werent-syrian-style-interventions-until-obama-came-along#sthash.h2HjM5i0.dpuf
Reminds me of this:
Pearl Harbor wasn’t an act of war, but a limited air strike with no boots on the ground.