Letter to Board of Directors, Amnesty International-USAWe, the undersigned, protest Amnesty International USA's decision to portray NATO as defending womens rights in Afghanistan. Bus shelter ads with the slogan "NATO: Keep The Progress Going!", a letter to the same effect signed by, among others, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright...
It seems quite likely that the advent of Suzanne Nossel as Amnesty's Executive Director influenced Amnesty's change of direction. Nossel, credited with coining the term Smart Power, published a 2004 Foreign Affairs article in which she outlined the concept of the U.S. using military power as well as other forms of soft power, an approach which Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced at her confirmation as the new basis of State Department policy.
If this is not accomplished by July 31, 2012, we will be forced to publicly withdraw our future support from Amnesty's programs and campaigns until Amnesty USA removes Ms. Nossel from her position and retracts its laudatory statements concerning the U.S. and NATO presence benefiting women and human rights, and to urge others to do the same.
Signed,
Medea Benjamin
Ann Wright
Coleen Rowley
Jodie Evans
... maybe this is just the obligatory, we really, really searched hard for a black running mate, woman running mate, schtick.
Condi’s never been elected even dog catcher.
If Romney really wants to win, his choice is clear - hillary.
It wasn't ever really about Bush. They're communists. And they've been as busy as ever promoting the communist cause through the guise of "peace". The word is in quotes because, like most of these SOBs, they're not really anti-war/pacifists. They've never met a violent leftist uprising or revolution they didn't support. Their heros are mass-murderers like Mao, Che, Castro, and, in some cases, Stalin. Not exactly men of peace. They work closely with pro-communist terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. They openly embrace commie traitor Jane Fonda. They're big players in the Ayers-Dohrn anti-Israel/anti-US, Mid-East missions of recent years. They're a big part of the Communist Party USA front movement "Peace Action", which seeks to disarm the US via pressure from "anti-war" protests.