The Redhunter

This leftist motley crew met with Sheikh Ahmad al-Kubaysi, a Baghdad-based cleric who “almost certainly is affiliated” with the Naziesque Muslim Brotherhood. He once declared:

These young men who came here from other Muslim countries to defend Iraq are very brave. They left their homes and comfortable lives to protect fellow Muslims. That is the most important form of Jihad. These Mujahideen are guaranteed Paradise.

In addition to echoing Cindy Sheehan’s views on this topic, the Sheikh had another commonality with his guests: his Association for Muslim Studies in Iraq also collected food and supplies for Fallujah’s terrorists. No slacker, Kubaysi is said to have given al-Sadr $50 million. Al-Sadr, in turn, offered to work with him. The AMS leadership explicitly condones armed “resistance” against U.S. forces as an Allah-given Iraqi right and has sanctioned the murder of civilian hostages as collaborators.

The leftists’s prime sponsor, however, was the Iraq National Dialogue Front, a coalition led by Saleh al-Mutlaq, the Sunni who led the charge against the Iraqi constitution when it guaranteed the Shi’ites an autonomous region.
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Like al-Kubaysi, the INDF leader condones armed “resistance,” has offered to join the “insurgency,” and regularly calls upon the United States to disarm itself in the face of terrorism.

So what did this lovely bunch decide?

For starters, a timetable for withdrawal of American troops. From the Code Pink's own report on the meeting

The common thread among this diverse group of Iraqis and Americans was a desire to set a timetable for the withdrawal of US troops, ensure no permanent bases in Iraq, and secure a U.S. commitment to pay for rebuilding Iraq. Other issues that emerged in two-days of intensive talks include the need to dismantle militias, provide amnesty for prisoners and the various armed groups, compensate victims of the violence, revise the Constitution and preserve the unity of Iraq, and reverse US-imposed de-Baathification and economic policies. We left this historic meeting with a commitment to make sure that the voices of these Iraqi parliamentarians are heard here in the US, and we will bring a group of them to the U.S. in the Fall.

Note the bit about "reverse US-imposed de-Baathification". The Ba'ath Party in Iraq was Saddam's political party. It is somewhat similar to Hitler's Nazi Party of Mussolini's Fascist one. And they want to bring them back?

Another person who went on the trip was Jeeni Criscenzo, a DailyKos blogger and Democrat candidate for the 49th District in California. In an August 6 post on the DailyKos she wrote

It is important to distinguish between the militia, or death squads and the resistance, particularly when considering the amnesty aspects of the Reconciliation Plan crafted in Cairo last month. Over 95% of the Iraqi people oppose the presence of the U.S. troops in their country and consider the people the U.S. call "insurgents" to be patriotic freedom fighters -- no different that how we look at the people who fought in our Revolutionary War. Heroic titles go to the victors and if justice is to ever come to the people of Iraq, the people we call insurgents will have to be recognized as the ones who are actually defending their homeland. Emphasis added)

This woman is insane. She thinks that the insurgent terrorists - Al Qaeda in Iraq - are "patriotic freedom fighters". I question her patriotism. No, I'll say it outright; Jeeni Criscenzo and the rest of those people who went on this trio are not American patriots. They are traitors, to the United States, and to Iraq, for that matter.

There, now I've said it.

If Criscenzo is not bad enough for you, try Code Pink co-founder Jodi Evans. She thinks Saddam Hussein's Iraq was a great place

Let’s go back to the Iraq before we invaded, there was a good education and health care system, food for everyone. That system didn’t belong to Saddam it belonged to the Iraqi, it belonged to years of creating what a civilization needed. If your parents didn’t send you to school they could be put in jail.

Another insane woman.

Lasty there's Cindy Sheehan. She wrote about her experiences in an article posted on Code Pink's website. Besides the usual nuttyness, before leaving at the airport she met an "Iraqi gentleman" who told her just what she wanted to hear

He sadly informed me that the Americans are not stopping the sectarian violence, only encouraging it in his country, and he holds little hope for any future for the land that he was born in and loves.

Oh yeah that makes sense. We're encouraging the sectarian violence so the American people will get fed up with the venture and elect Democrats this November who will demand a troop withdrawal. Another insane woman.

All in all, another day's work betraying their country by some prime members of the Hate America crowd.

All links above taken from Ben Johnson's excellent FrontPage Magazine article.