U.S. to pull out of Iraq, Sheehan is providing effective propaganda for the likes of the PLO and the diehard remnants of Iraq’s Ba’ath Party. In this context, it is instructive to consider the groups that have pledged their support for Sheehan’s publicity stunt. Among those of her comrades less remarked upon is the Crawford Peace House of Crawford, Texas. Aside from being one of Sheehan’s most vocal backers, Crawford Peace House is a front group for several radical causes, among them the support of Palestinian terrorism and Ba’ath Party insurgents under the guise of promoting 'peace' activism. "The group’s homepage features a photo in which the entire area between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean—what is now Israel—is wiped off the map. This is supplemented by an ahistorical banner complaining about 'Israel’s attacks, invasions and occupation.' (No mention is made of the successive Arab assaults on Israel from its birth in 1948, then again in 1956, 1967, and1973.) To stress the point, the site displays a tired rant by one Hadi Jawad, in which all the problems of the Palestinians are blamed on Israel. Look at the photos above the essay, however, and you will see where Cindy Sheehan’s newfound ally stands: There you will find Eugene Bird, an anti-Jewish conspiracy theorist who has managed to blame the prisoner abuses at Abu Ghraib on the Israeli Mossad. 'We know that the Israeli intelligence was operating in Baghdad after the war was over,' Bird has claimed, wondering aloud whether there were any 'foreign interrogators…that were recommending very, very bad treatment for the prisoners.' A firm believer that the U.S. is manipulated by sinister Israeli interests, he advocates action 'to restore a political environment in America in which voters and their elected officials are free from the undue influence and pressure of a foreign county, namely Israel.' To read a report of a recent Crawford Peace House demonstration, just click over to the radical left-wing website Indymedia. If you scroll down to the final photo, you will see how the people of Crawford react to these anti-American, anti-Israeli zealots. Note that there are plenty of Palestinian flags.
"Yet the only American flags you will see are flying on poles in the front yards of houses and local businesses. The final photo in the Indymedia article shows a nearly empty Crawford, Texas, sidewalk. No doubt the locals had better things to do than watch a gang of radical subversives declare their solidarity with terrorism and parade their contempt for the U.S. That Cindy Sheehan would willingly associate herself with groups like the Crawford Peace House is not surprising. An opponent of the war in Iraq before her son re-enlisted in the military, Sheehan had already associated with people like Medea Benjamin of Code Pink, whose organizations supported sending human shields to Saddam Hussein’s regime and who sent money to aid the other side in Fallujah. Another of her prominent supporters is United for Peace and Justice, whose head, Medea Benjamin's ideological twin Leslie Cagan, is a longtime member of the Communist Party USA. Along with many of the activists currently converging on Crawford, the group opposes U.S. policy in Iraq and throughout the world. All of this casts doubt on Sheehan’s efforts to remake her image as a grieving patriot. 'I love my country,' Cindy Sheehan says in a recent television commercial. And yet, during an appearance at San Francisco State University, she said before a similar crowd as the one sponsoring her in Texas, 'This country isn’t worth fighting for.' Similarly, at a Sacramento rally that Cindy Sheehan attended, a videotape captured a U.S. soldier being hanged in effigy."
Now, if you go to this Crawford peace website, you'll see that it's been scrubbed of all these pictures, but we found them. At least I have them. I printed them out here. Now, the bottom line of this is, to me: for days and days now, the media has been obsessed with Pat Robertson and they have demanded to know if the president supports his call for the assassination of Hugo Chavez which he'd explained and apologized for, but all week the media has been obsessed, particularly CNN. They can't just get enough of this, and they're running around and they're trying to associate every conservative with Pat Robertson. They try to get me. All kinds of networks tried to get me to comment on this program about it so that they could use tape of what I said in the news, in their newscasts. They demanded that Bush explain it. They've demanded that anybody in the conservative side support Robertson's case. "Do you support this? Do you support this?" Robertson's a private citizen. He speaks for himself. He has no official association with the White House. That didn't matter, though. But now we have these radical left groups, like MoveOn.org and these numerous blog sites embracing people and other groups that seek our defeat in Iraq and actually embrace our enemy, and not one -- not one of them -- is ever asked. Not one politician is ever asked, "Do you support these groups? Do you support what Cindy Sheehan is doing?" Bush has been asked, "Why don't you meet with her?" but not once has Hillary Clinton or John Kerry or the rest of the Democratic leadership been asked to denounce these people! They benefit from MoveOn.org which is nothing more than a Democrat front group. Al Sharpton is going to go to Camp Cindy. He's a former Democrat presidential candidate who endorsed Kerry. He worked with Hillary. He's going to go to Camp Cindy. Reverend, don't do this. You do not know who you're getting associated with. I'm trying to help you, Reverend Sharpton. You either started your talk show or you soon will be. This is not what you need. You are not going to build an audience doing these kinds of things, and you're not going to be helping your country doing these kinds of things. The Democratic leadership -- and Sharpton going down there is proof of this. The Democratic leadership is tied to and bracing these groups. The Republican leadership is not tied to Pat Robertson. They're not tied. Pat Robertson doesn't dictate policy. These groups do. These groups are putting words in the mouth of people like Barbara Boxer and Russ Feingold and others, and Patrick Leahy, and yet not once have Clinton or Kerry or the others been asked whether they support the underlying mission and motives of these people down in Crawford. Hillary hasn't been asked a single thing -- and she won't be. It's the same thing about the UN, if you think about it. The UN issues vile anti-Semitic resolutions; the UN is hostile to America. Never are people like Joe Biden and Chris Dodd and the others asked to defend or repudiate the UN. They're never asked to comment on it. Yet they demand that we follow the UN, that we go through the UN and that we bow to the UN. Now, all I'm saying is, "I think it's time that these Democrat leaders cease being allowed to get away with this."
So I think the question needs to be put out there: Mrs. Clinton, do you endorse these groups that are behind Camp Cindy? It isn't Camp Casey. It's Camp CINDY. "Do you support these groups, Mrs. Clinton? Do you support or endorse them? Do you want us to win this war or not, since many of them are rooting against this country?" This group down in Crawford is actively rooting against the United States. They are rooting for the enemy. The largest group down there is a pro Palestinian, anti-Israeli group which has sent money to our enemies in Fallujah. "Do you support and endorse these groups, Mrs. Clinton? Do you endorse these groups protesting outside Walter Reed Hospital and tormenting our troops
there?" It's time to come out of the closet. No longer, I don't think, can Hillary Clinton and any of these other Democrats benefit from these radical groups without having to explain to the American people their association -- and they do benefit from them because they send them money. These groups are contributors. They are one of the arms and maybe an arm and a leg of the Democratic Party, and yet never once are they asked, "Do you support the mission of these groups?" It's time for the Democratic Party to either stand with the troops or stand with those who undermine the troops. The Democratic Party is trying to waffle this and trying to walk a tightrope. They can't afford to make mad the people like Cindy Sheehan or the MoveOn.orgs or this Crawford House for Peace. But at the same time, they can't openly support our troops either. What is that about? It's time for you people in the Democratic Party to either stand with our troops or stand with those who undermine them, and that is the point. RUSH: I'm getting impatient with all this. The media wants us to believe that this is just some spontaneous protest at some ditch in camp at Camp Cindy. "It all started with one grieving mom." That's what they all want us to believe. That's crap, folks. This entire event has been staged, with PR professionals and radical antiwar protesters with experience from the Vietnam era, and the Democrat Party has furnished groups to them. None of this stuff just happens. It just doesn't effervesce and bubble up on its own, and I'll tell you why Mrs. Clinton doesn't speak out against it. I'll tell you why John Kerry doesn't speak out against it. Because they support it. But they don't have the guts to say this themselves. They're content to let poor pathetic people like Cindy Sheehan mouth it for them, and they're content for this renegade bunch of losers down in Crawford, Texas to say the words that they don't have the guts to say. The fact is that they have aligned themselves with these radicals, the same antiwar leftists that helped undermine our soldiers in Vietnam, and Hillary and John Kerry know this better than most since they were both active in that movement themselves. Now, Hillary Clinton, she seems to think that the way you support the troops during war is to propose legislation for more national health care. Wrong. The way you support the troops during war is to speak out for them -- repeatedly, unequivocally -- to tell the groups associated with you and your party to stop undermining the war effort, to praise the accomplishments of our armed forces, which are considerable. But Hillary Clinton doesn't do that, does she? John Kerry will not do that, will he? He will not do that, nor will either of them condemn these groups.