Peace Activist Hayden: Iraq Flip-flop Puts Obama at Risk [Denver Awaits]

NewsBusters ^ | July 5, 2008 | Noel Sheppard

[Eurale]

More anti-war figures are voicing their opinions about contradictory and confusing statements regarding Iraq made Thursday by presumptive Democrat presidential nominee Barack Obama, and the news is clearly not good for his campaign. One such concerned party is Tom Hayden, the famed ex-husband of Jane Fonda who, along with Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin, was part of the Chicago Seven that incited riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.

[bray]

America’s Victory is their defeat.

Pray for W and Our Troops

[ETL]

Obama's FIRST Flip-Flop: IRAN

May 18, 2008: Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, these countries are tiny compared to the Soviet Union. They don't pose a serious threat to us. ...they spend 1/100th of what we spend on the military. I mean, if Iran ever tried to pose a serious threat to us, they wouldn't stand a chance.

May 20, 2008: Iran is a grave threat. It has an illicit nuclear program. It supports terrorism across the regions and militias in Iraq. It threatens Israel's existence. It denies the Holocaust.

Source for these genuine Obama quotes: NewsBusters.org:
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brad-wilmouth/2008/05/23/fnc-shows-obamas-iran-flip-flop-colmes-might-talk-hitler

[Will88]

Nothing illustrates what a lightweight Obama is better than his various positions on Iraq and foreign policy in general. It probably helped him during most primaries, but now I suspect some of the few remaining level heads in the Dem. party have gotten to him and cooled his quick pullout talk and his meet with all the loony dictators with no pre-conditions talk.

[ripley]

“peace activist hayden...”

hayden is not a peace activist. he is against the use of force by the american military.

IMHO

[chris_bdba]

So if this is Saturday his position is....? Boy, Denver is going to be very interesting! Teehehe

[dennisw]

He’s an idiot. He knows nothing about foreign policy. His foreign policy is to flap his gums

Unfortunately he is a fine demagogue and has Americans eating out of the palm of his hand. Various political remarks by citizens have proven to me how dumbed down we have become

[ETL]

"Peace Activist Hayden: Iraq Flip-flop Puts Obama at Risk"

What's with all this "peace activist" and "anti-war" crap? Haden was, and no doubt still is, pro-communist. So are the organizers of ALL the major "anti-war" groups around today (United for Peace and Justice, ANSWER, World Can't Wait--Drive Out the Bush Regime, Troops Out Now, etc, etc). We, and the "right-wing media", really need to stop referring to these anti-American, anti-capitalist, treasonous pieces of trash this way.

Here's an old (2001) but informative article from David Horowitz which I just found yesterday. He posted it in the days following the 911 attacks.

An Open Letter to the "Anti-War" Demonstrators: Think Twice Before You Bring The War Home
By David Horowitz
Thursday, September 27, 2001

I AM a former antiwar activist who helped to organize the first campus demonstration against the war in Vietnam at the University of California, Berkeley in 1962. I appeal to all those young people who participated in "antiwar" demonstrations on 150 college campuses this week, to think again and not to join an "antiwar" effort against America’s coming battle with international terrorism.

The hindsight of history has shown that our efforts in the 1960s to end the war in Vietnam had two practical effects. The first was to prolong the war itself. Every testimony by North Vietnamese generals in the postwar years has affirmed that they knew they could not defeat the United States on the battlefield, and that they counted on the division of our people at home to win the war for them. The Vietcong forces we were fighting in South Vietnam were destroyed in 1968. In other words, most of the war and most of the casualties in the war occurred because the dictatorship of North Vietnam counted on the fact Americans would give up the battle rather than pay the price necessary to win it. This is what happened. The blood of hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese, and tens of thousands of Americans, is on the hands of the antiwar activists who prolonged the struggle and gave victory to the Communists.

The second effect of the war was to surrender South Vietnam to the forces of Communism. This resulted in the imposition of a monstrous police state, the murder of hundreds of thousands of innocent South Vietnamese, the incarceration in "reeducation camps" of hundreds of thousands more, and a quarter of a century of abject poverty imposed by crackpot Marxist economic plans, which continue to this day. This, too, is the responsibility of the socalled antiwar movement of the 1960s.

I say "socalled antiwar movement," because while many Americans were sincerely troubled by America’s war effort, the organizers of this movement were Marxists and radicals who supported a Communist victory and an American defeat. Today the same people and their youthful followers are organizing the campus demonstrations against America’s effort to defend its citizens against the forces of international terrorism and antiAmerican hatred, responsible for the September attacks.

I know, better than most, the importance of protecting freedom of speech and the right of citizens to dissent. But I also know better than most, that there is a difference between honest dissent and malevolent hate, between criticism of national policy, and sabotage of the nation’s defenses. In the 1960s and 1970s, the tolerance of antiAmerican hatreds was so high, that the line between dissent and treason was eventually erased. Along with thousands of other New Leftists, I was one who crossed the line between dissent and actual treason. (I have written an account of these matters in my autobiography, Radical Son). I did so for what I thought were the noblest of reasons: to advance the cause of "social justice" and "peace." I have lived to see how wrong I was and how much damage we did especially to those whose cause we claimed to embrace, the peasants of IndoChina who suffered grievously from our support for the Communist enemy. I came to see how precious are the freedoms and opportunities afforded by America to the poorest and most humble of its citizens, and how rare its virtues are in the world at large.

If I have one regret from my radical years, it is that this country was too tolerant towards the treason of its enemies within. If patriotic Americans had been more vigilant in the defense of their country, if they had called things by their right names, if they had confronted us with the seriousness of our attacks, they might have caught the attention of those of us who were wellmeaning but utterly misguided. And they might have stopped us in our tracks.

This appeal is for those of you who are out there today attacking your country, full of your own selfrighteousness, but who one day might also live to regret what you have done.

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=BD0953E6-D84E-43DD-963E-4E5730A7D9C6

[A.A. Cunningham]

Peace Activist Hayden: Iraq Flip-flop Puts Obama at Risk

Correction: Communist, Traitor Hayden: Iraq Flip-Flop Puts Obama at Risk

[WilliamofCarmichael]

Did someone say Hayden, Rubin, Hoffman, et al?

Headline:

Could be the end?
"Crap cannon" threatens us with dissipation, say Leftists
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[DoingTheFrenchMistake]

Looking more & more that having no one to vote for I will just go fishing come election day .

[matt1234]

http://www.recreate68.com/

[Salvation]

I’ve always said that Obama will not be the nominee. Guess we will have to wait and watch the show in Denver.

[SE Mom]

Ahhhh the resurrection of the Chicago Seven (8 to start with)...dreaming no doubt of how to turn Chicago 68 into Denver 08.

Wonder how deeply ACORN people are working this...

[johnnycap]

Remember back in the 80’s when the group ACT UP! put out the bumper stickers that read:

SILENCE=DEATH ??

We should begin circulating bumper stickers that say:

OBAMA=PHONY

[rabidralph]

One for them and one for us.

[ETL]

waaaah! i dont care if obami 'cums pezident and deetwoys dis country! unlez i get every wittle thing i want, i'm not gonna vote for mccain.

[Fresh Wind]

Oh, Bama
Can this really be the end
To be stuck inside of Denver
With the Chicago blues again

[Mike Darancette]

The left wants nothing less hat complete and total surrender in Iraq, Afghanistan and the War on Terror.

[SERKIT]

Just a newer shade of pink-o.

[reformedliberal]

Do you think you will have the option to fish within one year of an Obama win? Catch and release only, on one specific 10-day period on a limited number of streams and the license will cost $200. After a 3-year campaign in the compliant media, fishermen will be demonized as fish molesters and the sale of all equipment will be so heavily regulated, few will even attempt the sport. Those who do will be reported and ordered to undergo mandatory psychotherapy. (sarcasm, but some version could easily become reality)

I understand anyone not wanting to vote for McCain. I do not stand anyone willing to allow the control-freak Marxists to gain total control of our country.