The Redhunter

Code Pink tried to distribute medical supplies to refugees. It may that some terrorists were among the ranks, but IIRC they were still holed up in Fallujah. So it's reasonable to assume that the overwhelming majority of refugees weren't terrorists.

Re WTI: support for the insurgents is, indeed, insane. That said, I didn't see Democracy Now among the endorsers.

Re: sanctions: it's reasonable to hold that the sanctions could've been more carefully targeted at military infrastructure & supplies. As implemented, they were collective punishment, and it's not unreasonable to oppose collective punishment.

jpe is correct that Democracy Now! was not a sponsor of the tribunal. I have made the necessary correction to the above post.

However, jpe is a Useful Idiot if he thinks that Code Pink did not knowingly give aid to the terrorists in Fallujah. They knew what they were doing.

The leftists opposing the sanctions were not doing so because they had any concern for the Iraqi people. They opposed the sanctions because they hate America and support dictators who oppose us.

All I know is what I read. I'm not privy to CIA reports being beamed through my fillings. So, unless there's evidence to the contrary (note:anything coming straight from the zionist/illuminati conspiracy will be disregarded), I don't see why I shouldn't take Code Pink at its word - the aid went to refugees.

(that isn't to say the WTI statement isn't crazy and evil - it clearly is. But we're dealing with a specific allegation of aiding insurgents through alleged aid to refugees, and I just don't see any evidence of that. Produce it, and my mind will change. That's how it works in the reality-based community.)

Oh for heavens sake.

Media Benjamin and her group went to Fallujah when it was controlled by the terrororists(or "insurgents" as you prefer). At the time the terrorist insurgents controlled everything that went on in the city. Therefore the people Benjamin dealt with were by definition tied to or even the terrorist insurgents themselves. Further, the refugees of Fallujah were quite anti-American in their sympathies. Benjamin may be a commie, but she isn't stupid. She knew the situation in Fallujah and thus who was receiving the supplies. Even if the people she actually handed the stuff to were "average citizens", of course the terrorist leadership ended up taking it, as surely she knew would happen. Further, it is well known that these refugees were very anti-American in their sympathies. So it is kind of like distributing aid to a city in Germany during WWII that was known for being a hotbed of Nazism.

If you're looking for a press release or a photo with Benjamin with Abu Musab al-Zarqawi or some other known terrorist sorry it isn't there to my knowledge. This is a situation where you have to use logic and put two and two together.

Then you have to consider who the founders or Code Pink are and what they've done. The World Tribunal finding #11 ought to clue you in as to what these people actually think. Before that was the 1980s when they aided Central American Communists. For example, Code Pink leader Sandy Brim once arranged to get a doctor to operate on Communist leader Nidia Diaz, whose men had recently killed four US Marines. Look it up.

I could go on and on but you get the point. Connect the dots.

But in the end you can believe what you like. Take care and have a nice day.

Media Benjamin and her group went to Fallujah when it was controlled by the terrororists

I know it'd be nice to invent facts, but let's assume that you can't your words don't create states of affairs. According to the "facts," as we call them, the group set up shop outside of Fallujah.

Even if the people she actually handed the stuff to were "average citizens", of course the terrorist leadership ended up taking it, as surely she knew would happen.

*chuckle*

I'm sure that's obvious from your vantage point in your mom's basement somewhere in Middle America.