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EXPOSING THE PEACE MOVEMENT, Part II
(see also, Part I)
The contention that Bush lied about Saddam having WMDs has
been rebutted by Robert Kagan and others by quoting the words of Clinton,
Kerry and Kennedy (who were the most vociferous about the danger posed by
Saddam, and who now depend upon the American public’s one-week attention
span to
rewrite history ala Orwell’s Ministry of Truth). Here is a brief excerpt
from "On Iraq, Short Memories," by Robert Kagan, the
Washington Post, 2005/09/12:
If you read even respectable journals these days,
including this one, you would think that no more than six or seven
people ever supported going to war in Iraq. A recent piece in The
Post's Style section suggested that the war was an 'idea' that
President Bush 'dusted off' five years after Bill Kristol and I came up
with it in The Weekly Standard. That's not the way I recall it. I
recall support for removing Saddam Hussein by force being pretty
widespread from the late 1990s through the spring of 2003, among
Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives, as well as
neo-conservatives.... I recall broad bipartisan support for removing
Hussein right up to the eve of the war.... It's interesting to watch
people rewrite history, even their own. My father recently recalled for
me a line from Thucydides, which Pericles delivered to the Athenians in
the difficult second year of the three-decade war with Sparta. 'I am the
same man and do not alter, it is you who change, since in fact you took
my advice while unhurt, and waited for misfortune to repent of it.'
There is a media template in place, and editors around the
country will not countenance anything outside this anti-war template,
which in respect to Cindy Sheehan is that she is a grieving mother as a
result of a war which Bush got us into by lying about WMDs. Sheehan,
however, is what Lenin called “a useful idiot.” The organizations
paying her operating expenses to get across their agenda (i.e., unilateral
disarmament by “bringing the boys home") let her speak
extemporaneously, but now it is “Hush, hush, sweet Cindy,” because she
was letting too much of the cat out of the bag. For example, when a
Sacramento couple hung an effigy of an American soldier outside their
house, Cindy showed up in support. In April Cindy was a featured speaker
at San Francisco State College with Lynn Stewart, the lawyer for Sheik
Rahman, who masterminded the first WTC bombing. Stewart has said, “I
don’t believe in anarchistic violence, but in directed violence. That
would be violence directed at the institutions which perpetuate
capitalism...." Moreover, Stewart was convicted of smuggling
out of Rahman’s cell his instructions to his terrorist network. It is
clear that Stewart and her ilk seek to enable terrorism.
At this rally, Cindy declared on stage, “I’m going all over the
country telling Moms, ‘This country is not worth dying for.” The
Communist plan for our nuclear disarmament, while Iran arms with the
reactor supplied by Russia, was also apparent at State College when Cindy
declared, “We are waging a nuclear war in Iraq and the country will be
contaminated for eternity.” Such a public profession suggests that she
was in need of counseling from a shrink.
As I wrote last week, the mainstream media now functions like a political
party in support of the Democrats’ advocacy of withdrawal of American
troops abroad, who are preempting what would be eventual acts of terrorism
on our own soil. The party line is that we are less safe now than before
9/11, and what they conveniently ignore is the Koran's call for violence
against non-Muslims worldwide. Moreover, pre-9/11 there were a
series of attacks on our overseas embassies, and the U.S.S. Cole, etc.
which elicited no response from the Clinton administration, thus
emboldening the jihadists who then brought terrorism to our shores.
Behind such permissive attitudes towards Islamo-fascism is the sinister
Baran-Wallerstein justification for using terrorism to destroy capitalism.
The goal? The long-sought utopia of Socialism and Communism, a new
“Amerika” subject to rule by a world government like the U.N.
dominated by China and Russia. The only joker in the deck of this scenario
is whether or not the genii of jihad can be put back in the bottle after
it has been armed by Communism.
While in office, Clinton did his bit for the Chinese military by gifting
them with our most advanced technology in exchange for campaign donations.
Louis Freeh’s new book Bill and Me documents what Clinton did to
enable terrorism. After the 1996 bombing of the military housing project
at Khobar Towers, which Freeh saw firsthand, he appealed to Clinton to
demand that Prince Abdullah permit the FBI to conduct an investigation on
Saudi soil. Freeh writes: “Clinton raised the subject only to tell the
crown prince that he certainly understood the Saudis’ reluctance to
cooperate. Then, according to my sources, he hit Abdullah for a
contribution for the still-to-be-built Clinton Presidential library.”
Moreover, a beneficiary of Saddam’s bribes to keep him in power was Marc
Rich, who fled to Switzerland to avoid more than fifty indictments for
fraud. Rich’s wife had donated more than a $1 million to Democrats and
Clinton during his administration; so Rich was one of Clinton’s 177
last-minute pardons made without consulting Freeh or the Justice
Department.
The bottom line is that the mainstream media walk a razor’s edge in what
they report and what they censor, or don’t report at all. Cindy Sheehan
is their Frankenstein monster, not a whole person, but an entity cut and
sutured to fit their agenda of undermining Bush at all costs, and thereby
forsaking the war on terror in Iraq by “bringing the troops home.”
Should Cindy blow her cover by calling the terrorists “freedom
fighters,” the Commie code word for them, the media simply do another
nip-and-tuck, excising the words that betray the Communist front groups
sponsoring her like CodePink, Crawford Peace House, and MoveOn.org.
Whereas the media generally will not report the Communist backing of the
peace movement, there are two bona fide exceptions that do not have a
liberal bias, The Washington Times and the FoxNews channel.
Personally I prefer Fox’s Brit Hume (6 ET) to all other commentators,
and Charles Krauthammer who appears on his show is perhaps the most
intelligent man on TV. When Fox covered the September Iraq war
protest in Washington, they actually showed some of the speakers there,
including George Galloway, Brian Becker, Cynthia McKinney, as well as
Mother Sheehan.
Former Communist “red diaper, doper baby” David Horowitz has done
America a great service by providing on-the-Net the historical Communist
affiliations of the people and organizations supporting terrorism under
the guise of doves to fool us. That website is www.discoverthenetwork.org.
There one can find historical facts rebutting any liberal suggestion that
noting such Communist affiliations is McCarthyism or Red-baiting.
Moreover, although Horowitz evidently has not heard of the
Baran-Wallerstein theory, his book Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and
the American Left spells out exactly how the Left seeks to empower
terrorism for its own benefit.
At www.discoverthenetwork.org
you may see for yourselves the devastating truth about the Communist
agenda behind the peace movement, which the mainstream media will not
report because it has been compromised by years of Leftist infiltration;
so that now it has precisely the same agenda as Communism (i.e.,
unilateral U.S. disarmament by withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan, and
no American action abroad to preempt terrorism unless sanctioned by the U.
N.) To show a few examples: Leslie Cagan continued her membership in the
Communist Party even after the Berlin Wall was torn down. In order to
implement the Communist goal of unilateral American disarmament, Cagan
runs United For Peace and Justice, which includes the Socialist Party USA,
and Socialist Action. Masquerading as peace organizations, they
demonstrate against the U.S. military. Here is an excerpt on Code Pink
from www.discoverthenetwork.org:
Code Pink, Sheehan’s sponsor, was founded by four
experienced activists and hardcore Communists - Jodie Evans, Medea
Benjamin, Diane Wilson, and a radical Wiccan activist calling herself
Starhawk. Ms. Evans is the nominal leader of the organization, which
works closely with Medea Benjamin's group Global Exchange, which in turn
maintains strong ties to the Communist Workers World Party (WWP).
Benjamin’s most seditious acts in support of Islamic-fascist terrorism
occurred in December 2004, when she announced in Amman, Jordan that
Global Exchange, CodePink4Peace, and Families for Peace, would donate
some $600,000 in supplies and cash to the Fallujah 'refugees.' This
city, you may recall, under the control of terrorist al-Sadr, was the
last stronghold of organized resistance in Iraq against U.S. troops.
But the money raised by these "peace
organizations" was not delivered to the American government for
distribution by our troops, but surreptitiously smuggled in. How do you
get $600,000 to "the other side," as Benjamin put it, in time of
war? The Communist movement to defeat America in Iraq has many willing
accomplices in the Democrat party, most of them in the Progressive Caucus
and the Democratic Socialists of America http://www.dsausa.org/dsa.html.
Which brings us to Number 15 of the Communist goals read into the
Congressional Record: “Capture one or both of the political parties of
the U.S.”
The Washington Times courageously bucked the
mainstream with a James Lakely expose of the 9/24-25 war protest: “War
protesters linked to left-wing radicals.” See below:
The groups gathering in Washington this
weekend to protest President Bush
and the war in Iraq have ties to radical left-wing groups and communist
organizations and have enjoyed the support of the left's biggest
financial supporter, George Soros. United for Peace and Justice (UPJ)
and International Act Now to Stop War and End Racism (ANSWER) are the
two main organizers of the weekend of events....
The leaders of ANSWER, founded three days after the
September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, are connected to the Workers
World Party, a Marxist group that has expressed support for such
dictators as North Korea's Kim Jong-il, Yugoslavia's Slobodan Milosevic
and Iraq's Saddam Hussein. The latter two have been ousted from power
and jailed. Other groups associated with ANSWER are the Free
Palestine Alliance, U.S.-Mexico Solidarity Foundation and the Muslim
Student Association of the U.S. and Canada.
UPJ, founded by liberals who say they were
concerned about the radical tactics and smorgasbord of issues trumpeted
by ANSWER, says it organized the 'S24,' or Saturday (Sept.
24) protest first, but Mr. Dobbs said there's 'a big overlap' between
the protests and 'the major point is that we're in D.C. to stop the war
in Iraq.' Among the nearly 1,000 groups in the UPJ coalition are
Punks for Peace, Queer to the Left, September 11 Families for Peaceful
Tomorrows and Historians Against the War. California-based Code Pink,
which has established a reputation for aggressive protesting, and
MoveOn.org will also be out in force this weekend.
John J. Tierney, a scholar at the Institute of
World Politics and author of 'The Politics of Peace: What's Behind the
Anti-War Movement?' said the core of the protesters are 'ideologically
very hard-core left' and that their agenda goes far beyond merely
protesting the Iraq war.
'They're not anti-war. They are anti-West,
anti-capitalism and anti-American political culture,' Mr. Tierney said.
'You see the speeches, the flags, the posters, the speakers and the
pamphlets cover a whole host of revolutionary causes, literally
everywhere....'
It is heartening when I find another author who sees as
clearly as I do the way in which the media gives a pass to the Communist
influence in the peace movement; so that one is led to the inescapable
conclusion that the media is indeed an arm of the Democrat party, and like
that party and the Communist party, rooting for our defeat in Iraq. What
follows are excerpts from Capital Research's new book, The
Politics of Peace: What’s Behind the Anti-War Movement? by John
J.Tierney. Dr. Tierney is Walter Kohler professor of international
relations and faculty chairman at the Institute of World Politics in
Washington, as reviewed by Robert Huberty:
The Politics of Peace is a careful look at the
organizations spear-heading the anti-war movement today and a comparison
of these groups to earlier movements for peace. In looking at the
activist strategies and radical backgrounds of anti-war organizers,
Tierney concludes that the movement’s leaders are anti-American rather
than anti-war. Indeed, the anti-war movement wants war and violence, not
peace, if it will lead to the overthrow of American institutions and
government. That a militantly secular anti-war Left defends and
justifies the violent actions of Islamic religious extremists is only
one of the many strange alliances created by those whose ulterior
motives are to oppose the broader War on Terror. Many leaders of the
principal anti-war organizations today are members of Communist splinter
groups. They have ties to North Korea, Cuba and Maoist China. Some have
political roots in radical anti-Vietnam War groups like the Students for
a Democratic Society, founded in the 1960s. Others trace their origins
to the heyday of the U. S. Communist Party. But the radical and
subversive links detailed in The Politics of Peace have been
obscured in false media depictions of a grassroots and idealistic
anti-war movement. A striking feature of The Politics of Peace is
the author’s comparison of the anti-war movement today to anti-war
movements in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Tierney observes
that these early movements offered valuable cautionary warnings against
American over-confidence overseas, and their leaders were genuinely
idealistic, motivated by religious belief, love of country and
skepticism about the uses of military power. Typically, however, they
failed to understand the nature of modern statecraft and the duplicity
of America’s enemies. Even with the best of intentions, America’s
organized peace movements have failed to achieve their aims. To
understand why is to know something about the human condition.
Below is a link to a long article of excerpts from The
Politics of Peace by Tierney that documents the anti-American culture
that is the basis of the Baran-Wallerstein strategy.
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:pCdr_lTFnncJ:www.capitalresearch.org/pubs/pdf/OT0305.pdf+%
Richard Roberts is the author of nine
books.
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