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Sellout: Code Pink Reconsiders Anti-War Stance Now Obama Is In Office
Report: Code Pink rethinking anti-Afghan War stance
Daniel Tencer
Raw Story
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
The anti-war group Code Pink, which rose to prominence with high-profile protests against the Iraq and Afghanistan wars over the past seven years, is softening its stance against the war in Afghanistan over concerns that a troop withdrawal could harm women’s rights in the country.
“We would leave with the same parameters of an exit strategy but we might perhaps be more flexible about a timeline,” Code Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin told the Christian Science Monitor. “That’s where we have opened ourselves … 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.”
The apparent shift in policy comes in the wake of a week-long trip to Afghanistan by Code Pink members, where activists were surprised to find a lot of support among women’s rights activists for maintaining the US and NATO presence in the country.
Some observers have been pointing out for years that the Western troop presence in Afghanistan is the principal reason that women in the country are now able to get an education, and that there is now at least a modicum of gender equality in Afghanistan. Many observers fear that the withdrawal of troops could allow the return of severe discrepancies between women’s rights and men’s rights in Afghanistan, as well as widespread violence against women.
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“In the current situation of terrorism, we cannot say troops should be withdrawn,” said Shinkai Karokhail, an Afghan member of Parliament and a women’s rights activist, at a meeting of international rights groups. “International troop presence here is a guarantee for my safety.”
Code Pink told the CSM the group would continue to oppose any increase in troop levels in Afghanistan.
“With President Obama weighing Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s call for 40,000 more US troops, the White House, often decried by Republicans as a hotbed of liberalism, could find itself with more allies on the right on this issue than on the left,” writes Johanna Neuman at the Los Angeles Times. “But Code Pink’s latest think could suggest that Democrats will give Obama a bit of room to maneuver on the issue.”
With Code Pink’s announcement, some conservative commentators have accused the anti-war movement of hypocrisy.
Describing the movement as a “sham,” blogger Strieff at RedState.com writes:
If there was ever any doubt that the anti-war movement was nothing more or less than an adjunct of the Democrat party, that doubt has been swept away. One would think that with the war in Afghanistan at a critical stage … that the anti-war movement would have been in fine form. If there was ever a time when their presence might have actually made a policy difference this was it.
The anti-war movement we were afflicted with over the past eight years was essentially a rent-a-mob that never had any larger objective than damaging President Bush.
And the Gateway Pundit blog asks half-jokingly: “So does this mean that Code Pink is now to the right of the Obama Administration?”
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October 7th, 2009 at 2:43 pm
Gee, what a surprise. Another hypocritical group stuck in the destructive left-right paradigm. The hypocrites stand on both sides of the ideological aisle.
SellingOutAmerica Reply:
October 8th, 2009 at 7:44 am
Time for a name change Mz. Benjamin. I vote for Code Yellow.
sudburychange Reply:
October 8th, 2009 at 11:11 am
Indeed. If we could only channel all that wasted energy into fighting the real enemy; the new world order. Which remind me to remind everyone to start stocking up on blanks DVDs and get your DVD duplicating operations ready for OCT 21st!!…let’s make this one twice as viral as The Obama Deception!
sudburychange Reply:
October 8th, 2009 at 11:13 am
Of coarse, also don’t forget to get a prisonplanet.tv membership to help AJ and team to keep the ammunition factory running full steam!
October 7th, 2009 at 2:45 pm
Gee, what surprise. Another hypocritical group stuck in the destructive left-right paradigm. Hypocrites stand on both sides of the ideological aisle. They really do not have morals or principles, but selfish motives for promulgating their bullshit.
October 7th, 2009 at 2:52 pm
CodePink: better to have dead afghani women(via american & nato killings) than to have what WE believe to be oppressed women. And now that the killing is done through the command of a black president, we dont need to feel guilty that the killing may be racist
bomb bomb bomb!!!
October 7th, 2009 at 3:26 pm
wasn’t code pink the loyal oppositon to begin with………………
n Reply:
October 7th, 2009 at 4:35 pm
controlled opposition you mean? Basically anybody who gets airtime is. Its all a show…..
October 7th, 2009 at 3:46 pm
they are kind of like the daily show with john stewart. remember, he was all over bushco for the war, now it’s all peachy keen. he doesn’t even have a political section on his message board.
1984 Reply:
October 7th, 2009 at 3:55 pm
BS. Even SNL went after Obama.. and lefties such as Maher (who probably was first) and Stewart certainly have gone after Obama as well.
1984 Reply:
October 7th, 2009 at 3:56 pm
And the media stopped covering the war pretty much. This happened already on Bush’s watch.
Stuntman Mike Reply:
October 7th, 2009 at 7:57 pm
Brothers and Sisters, we’ve always had peace with Afghanstonia. Our war with Urbania Americana is for now and all time…
(click my name for protest tunes)
October 7th, 2009 at 3:58 pm
Oh no!! Can’t speak out against the Dear Leader – oops. This is the USA not North Korea.
Hypocrits.
That is all.
October 7th, 2009 at 3:59 pm
Have they asked Afghan women their opinion?
October 7th, 2009 at 4:12 pm
CODE STINK!
October 7th, 2009 at 4:12 pm
If I were an afgan woman the last person I would want on my side is a Code Pinko activist phony
October 7th, 2009 at 4:15 pm
Yea, they are a bunch of faggot loving commmies twisted as hell.
They know nothing of God.
give me a break Reply:
October 7th, 2009 at 4:36 pm
shut the hell up, whatever is wrong with them, its not them being “commies” or knowing nothing of god.
October 7th, 2009 at 4:27 pm
Pink AstroTurf
October 7th, 2009 at 4:31 pm
wow, you christers cant quit with the conversion prostelizing. Bad as the jihaddis on my doorstep early weekend morn. ” Buy the mag or I’ll not go away!”
No, code pink was never the loyal opposition, unless you think Naoimi K and all were more patriotic than Zerzan and the unibomber (true on both comparasons) , so that makes them loyalists and some sort of wigglers. Its so fashonable to stick words in other peoples mouths and then ridicule their iniconsistency. Itsa also pretty pathetic.
I agree that this is the problem with all getting togather one one big issue and pretending we have no reservations and have no variations on lots of the reasons we are available to come togather. Some hate war. some hate this war. some hate dumb wars. some hate their kid at war. This is not an indivisable front. surprise surprise!~!!!!!its a big world and were different. Get over it
Orion Reply:
October 8th, 2009 at 7:05 am
We’re Christians, not ‘christers’, and it’s ‘Proselytizing’. Just because you don’t believe in the consequence of your actions, doesn’t mean a consequence doesn’t exist. Go ahead and bad-mouth Christians all you want, we will still pray that you can get saved. Most of the world’s population know nothing of God, as Robert said, and it’s very apparent you don’t either. Why don’t you get into your Bible, and see where WE are coming from?… most of us Christians have already been where you are now. God Bless, Robert!
October 7th, 2009 at 4:37 pm
Medea Benjamin is a “nice Jewish girl” and she founded code pink. Is there anyone left who hasn’t yet figured out who really controls America?
Londoner Reply:
October 8th, 2009 at 12:30 am
The Israel Lobby (Marije Meerman, VPRO Backlight 2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N294FMDok98
October 7th, 2009 at 4:42 pm
“a rent-a-mob that never had any larger objective than damaging President Bush”
Bullshit, they’ve always been a zionist-controlled pro-war mob pretending they’re anti-war, just another bunch making make sure the news is completely dominated by worthless crap.
Londoner Reply:
October 8th, 2009 at 12:28 am
Precisely.
Darth Chaos Reply:
October 9th, 2009 at 4:19 am
The ZioNazis are alive and well, folks.
October 7th, 2009 at 4:52 pm
“CODE PINK” is just another totally Liberal Front, set up by George Soros. HE IS THE TRUE EMENY AND NEEDS TO DIE!
NEVER has any Country TAKEN OVER the “people of Afganistan”. This country, from the start of time, has DEFEATED everyone. NO ONE has ever taken over.
WE need to just pull out of there and come home.
no Reply:
October 7th, 2009 at 5:12 pm
:YAWN: The “commie! liberal!” talk is the talk of controlled opposition. Spoken like a true Limbaugh or Savage sir. You are right about the “war” of course though.
October 7th, 2009 at 5:30 pm
An ALIEN face will SOON appear on your telly …..
I think everything is in preparation for when a ALIEN face appears on the telly and tells you that this planet is in fact run by them … the police suddenly looking like a different species in all their latest “get up.”
All of the technology suddenly upgrading and prison camps, is in preparation for the hand over which will happen pretty soon.
There will be hardly any fight put up, every one will just shrug there shoulders and go “Oh Fuck …. didn’t see that coming!!!”
The governments will just tell you there is not need to fight … we are out gunned in a serious manner and well … just suck it up and deal with it!!!!
You will be reeducated into the truth of what is really going on …via your TV which will run reeducation programmes around the clock.
Any protesters will be rounded up and sent to camp FEMA!!!
Ronda Reply:
October 7th, 2009 at 5:51 pm
Listen to Coast To Coast much? *sigh*
October 7th, 2009 at 5:33 pm
CODE PINK DOESNT KNOW WICH WAY TO TURN.
The nwo is proud of you.
go take a ride on a moab i hate people who sit on the fence!!!!!!!!!
October 7th, 2009 at 6:13 pm
They are just hypocrits! Plain and simple! Their protests were just plain ol politics and unsincere on the principles of the anti-illegal war movement!
Robert47 Reply:
October 7th, 2009 at 6:14 pm
Hypocrites, was meant in my statement.
October 7th, 2009 at 6:21 pm
i have been reading all the comments here on this site, and i read comments on sites like aol.com and other random comments, and i find one thing particularly disturbing,no matter what site i am on, everyone is ALWAYS AGAINST EACH OTHER! NO ONE on these comments has any REAL SOLUTIONS, its all about RACE, fucking get over it! black and white DO NOT GET ALONG! period. or it is about left and right,THERE IS NO LEFT AND RIGHT, its a fucking JOKE get over the dumb shit people, get on with the issue at hand. I HAVE A SOLUTION!!!!!
GET off the couch, get 20 dollars, go to kinkos print out some flyers, spred them at your school, workplace, wallmart, whatever. ORGANIZE PEOPLE!!!! i was just like you, 5 minutes ago. im through with the simantics, in the morning I WILL GET FLYERS TAKE THEM TO MY SCHOOL, hand them out outside the building, wearing my END THE FED SHIRT, i will put my contact info on it and begin to organize. if only one out of 50 of you douchbags would do the same…oh,btw, if you are actually contributing to the solution, THANKS!!!!!!
October 7th, 2009 at 6:28 pm
War suits them as long as it fits their agenda. Tyrants.
October 7th, 2009 at 6:43 pm
Just the name….Code Pink. Total manipulated front.
Avoid all movements…they are all infiltrated or soon to be infiltrated.
wolf56 Reply:
October 7th, 2009 at 8:31 pm
Intresting point!
October 7th, 2009 at 7:13 pm
Yeah. The right to be bombed to death with your kids by a drone remotely controlled from Virginia.
rAT Reply:
October 7th, 2009 at 10:43 pm
plus Code Pink sold Cyndi Sheehan down the river a long time ago. Totally Soros funded fake anti-war group.
October 7th, 2009 at 7:58 pm
“It’s not about who’s right or wrong, it’s about who’s in control.”
~ Me
October 7th, 2009 at 8:03 pm
NEW RED DAWN MOVIE
United States of Israel.
Treasury is Bankrupt.
American Holocaust.
9/11 False Flag.
James Blunt’s
No Bravery
October 7th, 2009 at 8:30 pm
Code Pink leadership,sell out,sold out!
October 7th, 2009 at 8:44 pm
Hey guys, this is the reason we need a nuclear false flag. Forget the flu, it won’t get the people behind attacking the middle east. We are going to see nukes going off in the US, probably Saturday (read Ezekial 24). This will allow the social controllers to push their control of the new currency since they don’t want Russia and the middle east to dominate the new currency scene. There will be a new currency, but they need a nuclear false flag to co-op the people in the US into attacking countries the social controllers want. GO AWAY FOR THE WEEKEND IF YOU LIVE IN A BIG CITY….ITS 911 BACKWARDS AND WRITTEN 2700 YEARS AGO!!!!!!
October 7th, 2009 at 9:11 pm
http://www.KeepTheTruthAlive.com
October 7th, 2009 at 9:28 pm
Code Pink is a stupid Twat Pad, Queefing Menstration, feminist fucking whore pack that has no idea what the fuck they’re doing, like any blonde in a liquor store. These fucks would spread their legs for the lowest bidding lobby groups, just so they can’t wear their pussy pink shirts on a hot Saturday afternoon. Fuck Pink, not stink. YAY!
October 7th, 2009 at 9:41 pm
Always knew they were hypocritical dumb shits pissing up the false political paradigm tree. Fucking tools, fucking war is wrong period if your the aggressor which we’ve been in most of the major wars of the past 60 years.
October 7th, 2009 at 10:41 pm
Check out Brave New Films video called Rethink Afghanistan. The women interviewed in the film say that womens rights have not been any better and actually are worse since the U.S. has been there. They are in more fear these days of retaliation or the same fears that they had before our occupation but now the occasion of the attacks on a woman happen more often.
I don’t always agree with the people at Brave New Films but just the same I don’t always agree with Mr. Jones either. Still good to have people like Alex and Mr. Greenwald out and making sure that facts aren’t overlooked. We all know that the mainstream doesn’t offer any good information.
October 8th, 2009 at 12:22 am
“… there is now at least a modicum of gender equality in Afghanistan.”
…as there was prior to the last war the US helped itself to in the 79-89 period when equal voting rights existed.
Another Londoner. Reply:
October 8th, 2009 at 4:52 am
Yes that’s very true but its even murkier and should be noted. The CIA effectively created the ISI prior to the Soviet invasion. (Funded in part by drug money of course, See Alfred McCoy’s The Politics of Heroin.) The ISI were vital in the creation and support of the Taliban after the Soviets were defeated.
The US were not so concerned with women’s rights when the CIA covertly promoted Wahhabism throughout the second half of the 20th Century and this was done mainly through Saudi Intelligence channels. Just after the 2001 Afghan invasion the MSM ran stories about the violent text books school children were using that were promoting Jihad. They failed to mention that the books were a leftover from the 80s and were funded and bought to the classrooms by the CIA through those Saudi channels. (See Peter Dale Scott’s The Road to 911)
Now poor war ravaged Afghanstan; Millions dead, the country covered in DU, is run by a puppet whose brother is a well known drug lord.
Any talk of “Gender equality” under those circimstances is nothing more than a cruel joke.
October 8th, 2009 at 2:40 am
Club Pink has Jew-stink all over it.
October 8th, 2009 at 2:51 am
These are the kind of fucking traitors that will get their brains blown out when the SHTF.
October 8th, 2009 at 4:10 am
What about the violence against men? Are they protesting about that?
October 8th, 2009 at 6:18 am
http://freedomandlinux.files.w.....&h=326
October 8th, 2009 at 6:19 am
Code Pink, you are now war criminals. WAR CRIMINALS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
October 11th, 2009 at 7:21 am
,and what exactly does code pink think about THEIR OWN [G-D] PEOPLE!?!?!?!
what about your own men And WOMEN over seas, ”code pink,” come on, what do you think about them!!!