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American Women Marching into Tribal Pakistan: Obama 'Worse Than Bush'(Code Pink loons)
U.S.News & World Report ^ | 10-5-2012 | Steve Nelson

Posted on 10/05/2012 9:55:15 PM PDT by smoothsailing

American Women Marching into Tribal Pakistan: Obama 'Worse Than Bush'

Anti-war activists head to Waziristan to protest drone strikes

By STEVEN NELSON

October 5, 2012

Thirty-two Americans associated with the feminist anti-war activist group Code Pink are in Pakistan for a march from Islamabad to that country's tumultuous tribal belt to protest American drone strikes that reportedly kill civilians along with their terrorist targets.

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Alli McCracken, who said she was one of the 24 American women in the contingent, said via an E-mail that Obama is "worse than Bush in some respects; he uses drones significantly more than Bush ever did, allowing him to carry out covert wars all over the world with zero accountability to Congress or the American public."

Obama, according to McCracken, has shown "total disregard for international law" when authorizing these strikes. Asked if Obama had authorized "murder," McCracken said, "Yes, as far as we know - and we know very little, since the drone program in Pakistan is operated by the CIA, and therefore cloaked in secrecy."

Medea Benjamin, one of Code Pink's leaders, is also in Pakistan for the march. We "are concerned about our safety, but more concerned about the safety of the people on the region, who live everyday with the threat of being obliterated by a hellfire missile," Benjamin said in an E-mail.

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Ahead of the protest march, the Associated Press notes that local press is buzzing with news of possible suicide attacks against the activists. The AP notes that a Pakistani Taliban spokesman denounced the march, saying "[we] don't need any sympathy" from "secular and liberal" protesters.

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


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: codepinko; dronewars; pakistan; waronterror
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To: smoothsailing
The jihadi putzes can use this to point out why they want women covered up.
21 posted on 10/05/2012 11:20:52 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
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To: ETL

22 posted on 10/05/2012 11:44:10 PM PDT by goron (Obama Gave Me a Free Phone!)
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To: OldNewYork

I thought this was a joke story, at first.


Reality is stranger than fiction FRiend.

This won’t be pretty.


23 posted on 10/05/2012 11:49:57 PM PDT by volunbeer (We must embrace austerity or austerity will embrace us)
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To: ibytoohi
“See, Allah, is good. He brings the enemy to us.”

I wonder if they'll consider them prettier than a camel?

24 posted on 10/06/2012 12:06:39 AM PDT by Panzerlied ("We shall never surrender!")
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To: volunbeer
and if these goofballs get kidnapped !

100’s of millions of dollars of intelligence reconnaissance gear will move off their normal missions to gather leads on them, HUMINT sources will be tasked to find them instead of their usual more useful tasking and 100s of hour of analyst time will be spent looking at the data. And worse if they are located, young men whose toe nails clipping are worth more then the whole combined lot of these protesting hags will then put themselves at risk to rescue them !

25 posted on 10/06/2012 12:14:23 AM PDT by Reily (l)
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To: smoothsailing

Hopefully, they will keep Medea.


26 posted on 10/06/2012 2:52:44 AM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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To: smoothsailing

Pink burkas – or will they offend the Muslims by exposing hair and skin?


27 posted on 10/06/2012 3:59:49 AM PDT by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink)
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To: smoothsailing

Oh, how I hope Cindy Sheehan and Hanoi Jane are with them! And Bernadine Dohrn would be icing on the cake!


28 posted on 10/06/2012 4:53:42 AM PDT by MomofMarine
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To: PGR88

Vagina costumes were my first thought too. The Paki’s love vagina costumes. I highly recommend them to Code Pinko.


29 posted on 10/06/2012 6:21:47 AM PDT by Jabba the Nutt (.Are they stupid, malicious or evil?)
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To: smoothsailing
buzzing with news of possible suicide attacks against the activists

Good luck trying to find a volunteer for THAT mission........

30 posted on 10/06/2012 6:26:56 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Jab him with a harpoon.....)
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To: 43north
I’ll supply the rocks.

...and I'll bring the beer.

31 posted on 10/06/2012 6:29:51 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Jab him with a harpoon.....)
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To: R. Scott
Pink burkas – or will they offend the Muslims by exposing hair and skin?

Let's see how deeply they believe in feminism. I bet they don the burlap bags the moment their feet hit the tarmac.

Wait, does Pakistan still have airports, or do they have to tote everything in on donkeys now?

32 posted on 10/06/2012 6:30:23 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (The enemy of the American People? islam and the media)
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To: smoothsailing

Good, they are out of the country. Now don’t let them back in. They are traitors, standing with our enemies.


33 posted on 10/06/2012 6:37:50 AM PDT by Ironfocus (O Must Go)
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To: smoothsailing

Very risky move: they might be mistaken for a herd of goats by some randy Pakistanis.


34 posted on 10/06/2012 6:45:39 AM PDT by windsorknot
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To: Sirius Lee

They’ll probably think they’re save because of their anti-war stance. At lest I hope.


35 posted on 10/06/2012 12:32:42 PM PDT by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink)
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To: smoothsailing
If it was any group beside these batsh!t crazies, I'd empathize with them.

Fight like a man.

36 posted on 10/06/2012 12:35:45 PM PDT by Ramcat (Thank You American Veterans)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Thanks smoothsailing.


37 posted on 10/06/2012 9:34:39 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Hot Tabasco; smoothsailing
buzzing with news of possible suicide attacks against the activists

Good luck trying to find a volunteer for THAT mission........

Especially if someone starts a rumor that, the reward for detonating a suicide vest around Code Pink, is that Code Pink makes up part of your 72 virgins.

They'd be even safer than on the Berkeley campus...

Cheers!

38 posted on 10/07/2012 5:33:02 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: grey_whiskers; Hot Tabasco
They'd be even safer than on the Berkeley campus...

LOL, too funny!

39 posted on 10/07/2012 8:18:26 AM PDT by smoothsailing
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