Free Republic
Browse · Search
Bloggers & Personal
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Building up war with Syria, where is the anti-war movement?
Small Government Times ^ | 2013-08-29 | Steve Adcock

Posted on 08/29/2013 8:03:27 AM PDT by sdnet

The years of George W. Bush’s presidency made for fun and exciting viewing of a variety of anti-war groups protesting Bush’s foreign policy and never-ending “military engagements” that taxpayers are still on the hook to pay for. But as Barack Obama continues the drumbeat of war against Syria, where is the outrage from protest groups like Code Pink?

Apparently, these groups are flat out of money. It also does not help that a Democrat is now in the White House, which takes much of the fodder out of their purely hypocritical and entirely hollow cries for so-called “peace”. According to Code Pink founder Medea Benjamin, in fact, many of the groups that spent many-a-working-hour during the Bush administration protesting his foreign policy simply no longer exist.

“That’s the number one problem, is that the antiwar movement is a shadow of its former self under the Bush years.” She said many of the smaller groups are down to just a few volunteer members, and even the once-well-known Code Pink stands as a hollow shell of what it once may have been.

(Excerpt) Read more at smallgovtimes.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: antiwar; codepink; protest; syria
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-28 next last

1 posted on 08/29/2013 8:03:27 AM PDT by sdnet
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: sdnet
I put up a #Antiwarsearchparty tag on twitter yesterday but I don't know if anyone has picked it up yet.


2 posted on 08/29/2013 8:09:13 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: sdnet

Where’s the revocation of the Phoney Peace Prize?


3 posted on 08/29/2013 8:11:57 AM PDT by Paladin2
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: sdnet

4 posted on 08/29/2013 8:14:13 AM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: sdnet

Where is it? Trying to get His Majesty another Nobel Peace Prize. Thats where they are.


5 posted on 08/29/2013 8:16:19 AM PDT by chessplayer
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: sdnet

Very easy to understand: They were more anti-American than pro-peace. Obama is now doing their work for them so they are not needed.


6 posted on 08/29/2013 8:17:19 AM PDT by luvbach1 (We are finished.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: sdnet

Might there not be a distinct possibillity that they are too busy Being Trayvon..to get involved?


7 posted on 08/29/2013 8:19:44 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey (Block Captain..Tyranny Response Team / al-Kilab Division)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Doogle
"OMG I'm being robbed. This is what... I meant..... when.... I said.... about... walking down the street..... and hearing.... footsteps... behind...me."


8 posted on 08/29/2013 8:20:50 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The monsters are due on Maple Street)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: sdnet

Whatever happened to the Bush Era surrender monkeys?

9 posted on 08/29/2013 8:23:37 AM PDT by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: sdnet

the american “antiwar” movement is and was always NOT an antiwar movement; it is a Marxist run (with many fellow travelers) political movement that has used “war” mostly but other issues as well as a “crisis to not let go to waste” in organizing against any kind of conservative leadership in Washtington D.C.; but Obama is one of theirs so they will sit this crisis out - the phonies that they are


10 posted on 08/29/2013 8:25:20 AM PDT by Wuli
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: sdnet

We’re waiting for Baghdad Jim McDermott and his crew to head for Damascus as human shields. No? Never mind.


11 posted on 08/29/2013 8:28:11 AM PDT by dainbramaged (Joe McCarthy was right.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: sdnet

They are not being paid to show up and protest this time


12 posted on 08/29/2013 8:29:39 AM PDT by Lera (Proverbs 29:2)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: sdnet
It's okay. Really.
Obama has a Nobel Peace Prize.

Obama intervenes in Syria

13 posted on 08/29/2013 8:31:46 AM PDT by Bon mots
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: sdnet

They are wings of the Democrat party. Nothing but campaign tools at the expense of our country.


14 posted on 08/29/2013 8:32:24 AM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Liberty or Big Government - you can't have both.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: sdnet

Paging Cindy Sheehan.


15 posted on 08/29/2013 8:34:42 AM PDT by AD from SpringBay (http://jonah2eight.blogspot.com/)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: cripplecreek

The anti war movement aka the RATS are only anti war when a pubbie is Potus.


16 posted on 08/29/2013 8:35:13 AM PDT by kenmcg (scapegoat)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: UCANSEE2

Muskrat Cindy,
Muskrat Al,
Do the jitterbug down in Muskrat land,
And they shimmy,
Sharpton’s so skinny ....

Wait a second, muskrat CICh!
Never mind.

What to do, what to do ...
Code Pink? Hello? Hello? tap tap tap

Is this thing on? Phony war alert!
tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap


17 posted on 08/29/2013 8:47:05 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: Wuli

You hit it!!! The ONLY wars the Peaceniks were against, starting with Vietnam was a war that was fought for the benefit of the United States and/or its allies.
IF the USA went to a real war in defense, under a Republican president, the Anti-war crowd would be in our faces so fast, it would set an Olympic speed record.


18 posted on 08/29/2013 8:47:10 AM PDT by CaptainAmiigaf (NY TIMES: We print the news as it fits our views.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: kenmcg

They’re being led to protest fast food by the same idiots who led endless protests against the “Bush wars”.


19 posted on 08/29/2013 8:47:43 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

To: sdnet

If the “Left” can seduce the nations into another “World War” the aftermath of which would be horrendous then they can fully expect to jump into the political and social voids created with their One World Marxist style government. Sound far fetched? Look what happened all over Europe after WWI and WWII.


20 posted on 08/29/2013 8:49:21 AM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-28 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Bloggers & Personal
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson