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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nYesterday we asked where the human shields were for Iraq this time around. Some of you asked where Code Pink was on the whole ISIS thing. If you guessed that Code Pink would want the US to stop the beheadings and executions that ISIS is being accused of perpetrating in their newly founded Islamic Caliphate, well, you’d be wrong. From their email yesterday;<\/p>\n
August 8, 2014<\/p>\n
Dear Jonn,<\/p>\n
After he called years of US military involvement in Iraq \u201cthe dumb war,\u201d today President Obama authorized airstrikes on ISIS in Iraq. Our heads are spinning: we\u2019re bombing Iraq \u2013\u2013 again.<\/p>\n
Tell the President now: Humanitarian aid, yes! Bombing, NO!!!!<\/p>\n
Why does our President want to take sides and get involved in a civil war? The US is not the target of ISIS, but if we become involved, we will be. President Obama\u2019s concerns about the Iraqi humanitarian crisis and the safety of US personnel can be solved without dropping bombs. Helping the besieged civilians in Iraq should be an orchestrated international effort, not carried out just by the US–the country that unleashed the sectarian turmoil in the first place. And if American personnel in Irbil or elsewhere in Iraq are in harm\u2019s way, they should be immediately evacuated to a safe location.<\/p>\n
Further US involvement will only make the situation worse. Learn more about the situation in Iraq in this Democracy Now segment with Phyllis Bennis of the Institute for Policy Studies. As she points out, it’s up to the Shi\u2019ite Iraqi government \u2013\u2013not the US government\u2013\u2013 to create a broad-based coalition that shows it is inclusive of the Sunni population, instead of alienating them and driving them to support ISIS. <\/p>\n
This is the way wars are started. It\u2019s a slippery slope where humanitarian missions are the cloak for military intervention. We can be a part of the solution this time, not the problem, but that won\u2019t happen with bombs. We\u2019ve been there, done that, and it didn\u2019t work. The American people are sick of war and the Iraqi people have suffered enough from our military aggression. <\/p>\n
Tell President Obama: Bombing is not humanitarian aid! Don\u2019t drag us into another war in Iraq!<\/p>\n
With hope for peace in Iraq,<\/p>\n
Alli, Anastasia, Ben, Holly, Jodie, Janet, Medea, Nada, Nancy, Sophia, and Tighe<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Yeah, see, it’s a civil war. Al Qaeda is busy cutting off the heads of Christian children, raping and kidnapping Yazidi women and girls, so it’s no big deal. While I’m not real happy about American involvement in Iraq, but the humanitarian crisis there requires some leadership from somewhere. We don’t have any real leaders, so we have to go to war with what we have.<\/p>\n
But this is not my shocked face that Code Pink is going to bat for the Islamic State. After all, that’s the side they’ve been on since their founding. At least they’re consistent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"