COMFORTING THE ENEMY ( Sen. Hillary Clinton)

Don't be misled by the outraged tone of Sen. Hillary Clinton's response to a top Pentagon aide who accused her of "reinforcing enemy propaganda" on Iraq. The Democratic presidential front-runner was handed a political opportunity - and is milking it for all it's worth.

The fact is, Undersecretary of Defense Eric Edelman was on the mark in his attack. Asked by Clinton about plans for withdrawing troops from Iraq, he wrote in reply:

"Premature and public discussion of the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq reinforces enemy propaganda that the United States will abandon its allies in Iraq, much as we are perceived to have done in Vietnam, Lebanon and Somalia."

It's difficult to argue with that - especially the part about "public discussion."

Indeed, as Edelman noted, "It is longstanding departmental policy that operational plans, including contingency plans, are not released outside of the department." (And with good reason - given the likelihood that such plans would quickly find their way to the front page of The New York Times.)

Contingency plans exist, he noted, but publicly talking about them "understandably unnerves the very Iraqi allies we are asking to assume enormous personal risks." Moreover, "fear of a precipitate U.S. withdrawal also exacerbates sectarian trends in Iraqi politics as factions become more concerned with achieving short-term tactical advantages rather than reaching long-term agreements."

Clinton responded with a public display of mock outrage, insisting Defense Secretary Robert Gates declare whether he agrees with Edelman's letter. Taken as a whole, it's hard to see why Gates would take issue with it.

Talk about the "enemy within"! Check out these two bums, John Conyers and Charlie Rangel! And both HEAD powerful House committees!

On Oct 5, 2006, Democrat Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, John Conyers Jr, *gave a speech* to the World Can't Wait--Drive Out the Bush Regime organization.
http://www.worldcantwait.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3114&Itemid=243

Or, if the long url above breaks up:
http://tinyurl.com/ygx9w6

Before that he PUBLICLY ENDORSED THE MOVEMENT! See "Endorsers of the Call to Drive Out the Bush Regime Include...". (Conyers' endorsement appears immediately after Ward Churchill's)
http://worldcantwait.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2538&Itemid=2

Or, if the long url above breaks up:
http://tinyurl.com/ef6z6

FACT! World Can't Wait--Drive Out the Bush Regime is a MAOIST- revolutionary movement initiated and controlled by the Revolutionary Communist Party!
(scroll down the list that appears to find the World Can't Wait organization --rwor.org is the website of the Revolutionary Communist Party) :
http://rwor.org/a/rwlink/links.htm

From David Horowitz's
FrontpageMag.com /DiscoverTheNetworks.org:

Profile: World Can't Wait--Drive Out the Bush Regime (WCW)

*Revolutionary communist movement that stages protests against the Bush administration

*Organizes college and high-school students

*Founded in June 2005 by Charles Clark Kissinger, a longtime leader of the Revolutionary Communist Party

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7213

From the website of the Revolutionary Communist Party, parent org behind World Can't Wait--Drive Out the Bush Regime, the same organization that democrat Chair of the House Judiciary Committee endorsed, then gave a SPEECH to!

The RCP "Mission Statement": "Create Public Opinion, Seize Power! We are preparing minds and organizing forces for the time when there is a major crack in the system, whenever it comes and wherever it comes from: an opening that makes it possible to bring the future Revolutionary Army of the Proletariat (R.A.P.) into the field and wage a revolutionary armed struggle that actually has a chance of winning. And we have said that building our party itself is the most important part of organizing forces for revolution. This is true now, and it is true looking forward to the creation of that future R.A.P. and the waging of that armed struggle. ":
http://revcom.us/a/v20/1000-1009/1000/barw.htm

Here's the Revolutionary Communist Party (see link below) boasting of a FULL PAGE 'World Can't Wait--Drive Out the Bush Regime' ad of theirs which actually appeared in the New York Slimes.
(either "rwor.org" or "revcom.us" takes you to the website of the Revolutionary Communist Party). The NY Times allowed a 2nd full-page RCP/WCW ad to be run several months later! In fact, they are, or have very recently, ran another large ad.
http://www.rwor.org/a/028/who-hated-bush-ad.htm

From the World Can't Wait--Drive Out the Bush Regime "Youth and Students" page:

"The Students Are Stirring | Print | E-mail Good interview by Ron Jacobs interviewing a SDS organizer in North Carolina who is organizing for the March 20th walkouts.

A Campus Antiwar Movement Begins to Make Its Mark

[an article] By Ron Jacobs"
http://www.worldcantwait.net/index.php? option=com_content&task=view&id=3961&Itemid=5 or,

http://tinyurl.com/3yek4w

SDS = Students for a Democratic Society, a so-called "anti-war" (actually Maoist-revolutionary) organization which formed during the Vietnam era. They later split off into several other groups, one of which was the communist-revolutionary TERRORIST group The Weathermen.

Democrat Underground bloggers ("DUmmies") APPLAUD commie Conyers for signing the Revolutionary Communist Party call to "Drive Out the Bush Regime"

Read their outrageous comments here!

"Statement from [Democrat] Jim McDermott, U.S. Congressman from Washington To participants in the World Can't Wait actions today":
(rwor.org is the website of the REVOLUTIONARY COMMUNIST PARTY, and World Can't Wait--Drive Out the Bush Regime is their Maoist "anti-war" front group)
http://rwor.org/a/024/more-voices-from-november-2.htm

Again, from the RCP website, rwor.org:

"Tearing Up the U.S. Paper Tiger in Korea: How 300,000 Chinese Troops Snuck into Korea and Kicked the Ass of the U.S. Armed Forces" RW #1059, June 18, 2000:
http://rwor.org/a/v22/1052-059/1059/korea.htm

And here's some more evidence I dug-up on the commies in the demonRat party!

Is that DEMOCRAT House Ways and Means Chairman, Charlie Rangel, speaking at the podium of a Workers World Party / Troops Out Now rally???

But first, from the website of the Workers World Party, workers.org:

"On July 9 (1994), Workers World Party Chairperson Sam Marcy sent the following statement to Comrade Kim Jong Il, the Central Committee of the Workers Party of Korea and the State Funeral Committee of President Kim Il Sung.":

"Dear Comrade Kim Jong Il...

Workers World Party values our close, comradely relations with the Workers Party of Korea very highly. We are proud to have known Kim Il Sung as a great leader and a comrade in the international communist movement. ...

With comradely solidarity, Sam Marcy Chairperson, Workers World Party":

http://www.workers.org/marcy/cd/sam94/1994html/s940721.htm

...this next item is also from the website of the Workers World Party, workers.org:

PHOTO!...Democrat representative and Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee (also Korean war vet), Charlie Rangel, speaking at the podium of a PRO-NORTH KOREA Workers World Party / Troops Out Now rally in Harlem, New York, on March 19th, 2005, the 2nd anniversary of the start of the Iraq war. Also observe the photo to the immediate left of Rangel's. It is of commie and terrorist attorneys, Lynn Steward and Attorney General under LBJ, Ramsey Clark. Clark chairs the International Action Center (IAC) and served as counsel for Saddam Hussein at his war crimes trial:

See photos at this link:
http://www.workers.org/march19/index2.html

Here are a few not-so "anti-war" statements from the Workers World Party front, Troops Out Now. (clarifications within brackets were inserted by myself, a link to the original source is included at the end of the statements-LC) :

TROOPS OUT NOW: "It is time for the antiwar movement to acknowledge the absolute and unconditional right of the Iraqi people to resist the occupation of their country without passing judgment on their methods of resistance.[i.e., it's ok to saw the heads off of captured and bound hostages while they beg hopelessly for their lives, or to car bomb tens of freedom-seeking Iraqis at a time while they line up to join the police force or cast votes in the country's first ever free election. Even dragging school teachers out of a classroom and shooting them before the terrified eyes of their little students is cool with us. (this actually happened btw)-LC]...

their statement continues...

"Even the founding charter of the United Nations clearly affirms the right of an occupied people to resist by force of arms."

"We need to demand the immediate, complete and unconditional withdrawal of all U.S. occupation troops from Iraq."[what good little communist doesn't want a Russian-backed Iran to gain control of Iraq?-LC]

"We must support politically, morally and organizationally members of the U.S. armed services who are resisting the war, moreover, we must encourage this resistance." "There must no longer be any hesitation on the part of our movement regarding our support of the struggle of the Palestinian people to free themselves from occupation.[in other words, blowing up innocent civilians at restaurants and shopping malls is just fine with us-LC] As a movement we have made a huge step forward in this regard. There must be no turning back."

"We must work to facilitate the widest unity between all of the forces that are seriously organizing against the war and occupation."

All of the above statements, minus my 'clarifications', can be found at this Troops Out Now web page:
http://www.troopsoutnow.org/statements/outnow.html

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