{"id":8124,"date":"2009-02-24T08:12:58","date_gmt":"2009-02-24T13:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=8124"},"modified":"2009-02-24T08:12:58","modified_gmt":"2009-02-24T13:12:58","slug":"anti-war-crowd-get-what-they-voted-for-not-pleased","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=8124","title":{"rendered":"Anti-war crowd get what they voted for; not pleased"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Times<\/a>‘ Michael Drost writes this morning that the anti-war crowd voted and raised money for Barack Obama knowing he was committed to winning the war in Afghanistan, and they’re not happy that he intends on keeping that pledge;<\/p>\n

“I’m very upset; he promised change, and this is not change. It’s just going to create more deaths on both sides and create more terrorists,” said Jodie Evans, co-founder of Code Pink. The group, known for protests and targeting Bush administration officials, posted a statement Thursday condemning Mr. Obama’s decision and urging him to replace the combat troops with “humanitarian troops.”<\/p>\n

“Afghanistan needs troops of doctors, farmers, teachers, not more troops,” the statement says. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Medea Benjamin, also a co-founder of Code Pink, said the group “was always unhappy with [Mr. Obama’s] stance on Afghanistan” and has a campaign on its Web site to “Remind Obama”of his promises to promote peace, stop torture, and end the war in Iraq.<\/p>\n

“We hoped that putting more troops in Afghanistan was just campaign talk….”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The liberal blog Daily Kos, headed by Obama supporter Markos Moulitsas, also includes posts that are hostile to the president’s troop surge.<\/p>\n

“What possible purpose can be served by escalating the conflict with another 30,000 troops?” asked one post Jan 30. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The article goes on to quote Michael Moore (who thinks he’s some kind of learned historian) and others. Well, I suspected that Obama’s stance was just campaign rhetoric, too, but I’m heartened that he shown at least a little bit of common sense by recognizing that withdrawal from Afghanistan would have far-reaching consequences, just like Clinton’s premature withdrawal from Somalia has had on our security.<\/p>\n

It’s unfortunate that the squeaky wheels are still willing to sacrifice our way of life just so they can feel better, but we are fortunate that Obama recognizes that most voters will hold him accountable if he sacrifices national security for the patronage of the cranks and liars of the anti-war movement. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Washington Times‘ Michael Drost writes this morning that the anti-war crowd voted and raised money … Anti-war crowd get what they voted for; not pleased<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,46,43,9,47,5,7,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiwar-crowd","category-barack-obama","category-code-pink","category-foreign-policy","category-liberals-suck","category-politics","category-terror-war","category-usual-suspects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}