Taliban sympathizer Jodie Evans and President Barack Obama, Oct. 15, 2009
Posted on 12/21/2009 9:36:38 AM PST by kristinn
Taliban sympathizer Jodie Evans and President Barack Obama, Oct. 15, 2009
In a wide-ranging interview released this week by MIPtalk, Obama funder, terrorist sympathizer and Code Pink co-founder Jodie Evans spoke about her meetings with the Taliban and President Barack Obama. She lauded the Taliban for bringing peace and justice to Afghanistan while saying that the U.S. has failed to deliver either.
In a separate interview with Lauren Steiner, Jodie Evans went further in her criticism of the United States saying that we had created “hell on earth” in Afghanistan.
Jodie Evans also spoke about being called on by Obama’s Deputy Chief of Staff for a morning-after briefing following her hand delivery of a propaganda package to Obama about Afghanistan.
Jodie Evans admits in the interview she does “a lot to not support the troops.”
It has also been revealed by another source that despite their history of working to get our soldiers killed abroad and waging psychological war against the troops on the homefront, Jodie Evans and Code Pink were allowed to visit an Indiana National Guard unit at a base in Afghanistan.
Jodie Evans was a founding member of Obama’s campaign finance team, recruited in February 2007 to co-host Obama’s breakthrough Hollywood fundraiser with the Dreamworks trio of Steven Spielberg, David Geffen and Jeffrey Katzenberg. Later in 2007 she was appointed a fundraising bundler by Obama’s presidential campaign. She also donated tens of thousands of dollars to various Obama campaign vehicles in 2007 and 2008.
Obama’s last known in-person meeting with Jodie Evans was at a high dollar San Francisco fundraiser where he allowed himself to be filmed accepting a propaganda package opposing America’s victory in the Af-Pak front in the war on terror.
The Obama administration recently worked with Jodie Evans and Code Pink through the White House Office of Public Engagement to undermine public support for Obama’s surge in Afghanistan in the days after his speech at West Point announcing the new strategy.
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Jodie Evans seems to have gotten quite pally with the Taliban, affectionately calling them by the nickname “The Tali” during the interview. She compares the Taliban’s treatment of women favorably to how the Afghan warlords treat women, glossing over the world-renowned atrocities committed against women by the Taliban.
When I was trying to keep us from invading Afghanistan eight years ago, you know, people were arguing, ‘But what about the women?’ And I was saying the warlords are worse than the Taliban, if there could be such a thing.
Because the Taliban at least creates a structure, and they don’t the rape the women. They just kinda keep them in their rooms, quiet. And you know, if you follow the rules, you’re okay. If you don’t, you’re in a lot of trouble.
But that’s true with the warlords. But the warlords are just, there are no rules. They go in and if they see somebody they like, just go in at night and rape them. They rape, you know, go in and rape your children. I mean, they’re still doing that and so the problem is as we go there, the warlords are horrific. We put them in as the governors of provinces that now the Taliban have taken back, and then the warlords are the ministers. They are raping, you know, people in their villages. You know, women are trying to get justice. They can’t get justice and they’re out in the streets. So we — the U.S. — are supporting these horrific war criminals as what we think should be leadership.
What Jodie Evans accuses the Afghan warlords of doing is precisely what the government of Saddam Hussein did to Iraqi women.
That was perfectly acceptable to Jodie Evans in 2003 when she went to Baghdad with Code Pink as a guest of Saddam’s government to lobby the world to keep the genocidal state sponsor of terrorism in power.
Jodie Evans has professed her wish that Saddam were back in power in Iraq even after Saddam’s killing fields and rape rooms were revealed to the world.
Jodie Evans also favorably compares the Taliban to the U.S.
Why is the Taliban in power in Afghanistan again? Because they deliver peace and justice and we, the United States, do not deliver that. We deliver chaos and corruption.
Evans goes on to accuse the U.S. of “creating terrorism”:
What causes terrorism is disrespect, a lack of justice and poverty.
We are creating that in Afghanistan. We are creating terrorism. Our presence creates terrorists. Not for us, because the Taliban is a nationalist organization, but for Afghanistan.
If we continue to create a world where there is poverty and disrespect, there will continue to be terrorism. I mean whether it’s al Qaeda, I mean we’ve made these boogie men.
The Taliban actually wanted to negotiate with the U.S. government. We talked to some of “the Tali” that said this, that they tried to negotiate with the U.S. government under Bush to turn in Osama, or to let him go to Yemen or something else, so that we wouldn’t attack Afghanistan. And U.S. wouldn’t make that deal.
It makes you curious about why we are really in Afghanistan, which is the question for the Afghans.
And I can promise you Obama and his administration have no idea why we’re there. They keep giving us another reason. It changes as much as Bush changed why we were in Iraq. Because if it’s really about al Qaeda, al Qaeda hasn’t been there for four years at least. Maybe there’s a few remnants, but it’s not Osama. There are more al Qaeda in Yemen and Somalia and Pakistan.
(Rowe: “Pennsylvania.”)
..and in Pennsylvania, exactly!
Were (sic) those people that, you know, brought down the towers all lived in the United States? And then none of them were from Iraq or Afghanistan.
(Rowe: “They were well educated people from Saudi Arabia and Egypt and Syria.”)
…Which is the difference between “the Tali” and al Qaeda, you know. They were very well educated and they’re from other countries. “The Tali” are uneducated warlords.
(Excerpt) Read more at biggovernment.com ...
Would somebody please buy this idiot a pink burqa and a one-way airline ticket?!!
It doesn’t take a genius to find out how the Taliban would treat Jodie Evans. They would don her a burqa and make her read out Qur’anic verses at AK-47-point.
These are the same folks who loved the murderous Stalin. And they were aided and abetted by the (still more moderate than the New York Times at the time.
Not so sure they are self-deluded. Wouldn't say about Evans, or any other specifically, but certainly many at her level of extremism know the totalitarian nature of what they advocate.
At best they are deluded only about the nature of what will follow when they're revolution succeeds, but are fully conscious and aware in their nihilistic desire to destroy the liberal, liberty based social and political order of the democracies.
They're not antiwar. They're prowar on the other side.
Unreal...beheadings and forcing people to walk the plank from a High Dive tower into an empty pool is bringing peace and justice?
What a tard.
Jodie Evans has visited with Fidel Castro in the recent past.
1973 : (LA, CA : MAX PALEVSKY {See WIFE JODIE EVANS [See CODE PINK]} APPOINTS GRAY DAVIS {FUTURE GOV. OF CALIFORNIA & FRIEND OF JODIE EVANS [See CODE PINK\See SAND BRIM\]} TO HIS FIRST POLITICAL JOB AS FUNDRAISER FOR TOM BRADLEY MAYORAL CAMPAIGN — See JERRY BROWN ) ...far leftist, [Code Pink’s Jodie] Evans has found a comfortable political home in the Democratic Party.... she was a key fundraiser for her longtime friend and political ally, former California governor Gray Davis. Evans’ ex-husband, Westside financier Max Palevsky, ... appointed Davis to his first political job as the fundraiser for Tom Bradley’s 1973 Los Angeles mayoral campaign. Shortly thereafter, Evans and Davis worked closely together during the latter’s stint as chief of staff to then-governor Jerry Brown. ——— “Jodie Evans: Activist in Pink,” By John Perazzo, Frontpagemagazine.com, December 8, 2003
[SEE CA ENERGY CRISIS]
NOVEMBER 2002 : (MEDEA BENJAMIN & RAINFOREST ACTION NETWORK’S JODIE EVANS [A DEMOCRAT FUNDRRAISER] ORGANIZE THE FRONT GROUP CODE PINK———see UNITED FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE [UPJ]) In November 2002, Benjamin organized a front group called Code Pink, posing as a grassroots organization of “women for peace.” Her partner in creating the organization was Jodie Evans, a principal funder of the Rainforest Action Network and also of the California Democratic Party. The core leadership of Code Pink had met in the 1980s in Nicaragua, where they had come to defend the dictatorship created by Castro protégés, which was being challenged by the Reagan administration. -——— “Who Killed Marla Ruzicka?—A cautionary tale for our times.,” by David Horowitz and Ben Johnson, FrontPageMagazine.com, May 3, 2005
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