“Say no to war unless a Democrat is president”: Medea Benjamin and Code Pink TOTALLY exposed as ZIONIST FOUNDATION-FUNDED fake antiwar group

Code Pink Supports the Mass Murder of Afghans

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars
October 7, 2009

How disgusting. Code Pink supports the mass murder of Afghans. Murder is apparently fine with Code Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin if it results in women’s rights.

Code Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin gets manhandled at a McCain-Palin event last year. Now that Obama’s in the White House, she supports killing Afghan babies.

“We have been feeling a sense of fear of the people of the return of the Taliban. So many people are saying that, ‘If the US troops left the country, would collapse. We’d go into civil war.’ A palpable sense of fear that is making us start to reconsider that,” Benjamin told The Christian Science Monitor.

“The apparent shift in policy comes in the wake of a week-long trip to Afghanistan by Code Pink members, where activists were surprised to find a lot of support among women’s rights activists for maintaining the US and NATO presence in the country,” writes Daniel Tencer for Raw Story.

Some observers have been pointing out for years that the Western troop presence in Afghanistan is the principal reason that women in the country are now able to get an education, and that there is now at least a modicum of gender equality in Afghanistan. Many observers fear that the withdrawal of troops could allow the return of severe discrepancies between women’s rights and men’s rights in Afghanistan, as well as widespread violence against women.

But here’s what Tencer, Benjamin, and corporate media are not telling you — the Taliban was created by Pakistan’s ISI and the CIA in 1994 with Saudi money.

Phil Gasper explains:

The U.S. government was well aware of the Taliban’s reactionary program, yet it chose to back their rise to power in the mid-1990s. The creation of the Taliban was “actively encouraged by the ISI and the CIA,” according to Selig Harrison, an expert on U.S. relations with Asia. “The United States encouraged Saudi Arabia and Pakistan to support the Taliban, certainly right up to their advance on Kabul,” adds respected journalist Ahmed Rashid. When the Taliban took power, State Department spokesperson Glyn Davies said that he saw “nothing objectionable” in the Taliban’s plans to impose strict Islamic law, and Senator Hank Brown, chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on the Near East and South Asia, welcomed the new regime: “The good part of what has happened is that one of the factions at last seems capable of developing a new government in Afghanistan.” “The Taliban will probably develop like the Saudis. There will be Aramco [the consortium of oil companies that controlled Saudi oil], pipelines, an emir, no parliament and lots of Sharia law. We can live with that,” said another U.S. diplomat in 1997.

“I think [the Taliban] was part of your past and our past, and the ISI and CIA created them together,” Pakistan president Asif Ali Zardari told NBC during an interview in May.

The Taliban is a custom-made enemy along with al-Qaeda designed to keep the GWOT rolling for the merchants of death — the corporate media likes to call them the “defense industry” — and as an excuse to invade small countries in the Middle East, south central Asia, and now Africa.

	An AP photo of an Afghan girl killed by U.S. troops in the Azizabad village of the Shindand district of Herat province in 2008. She’ll never grow up to enjoy the rights Code Pink says they want for all Afghan women.

Prior to Code Pink, Medea Benjamin set-up Global Exchange, an “anti-globalization” organization that took money from globalist foundations, including the Ford Foundation, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Rubin Foundation, and Tides Foundation.

As noted by journalist Bob Feldman, these foundations are connected to the CIA, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Trilateral Commission. “Are the interests of the people being served by ‘dissidents’ who are being subsidized by the agencies of the ruling class whom they should be exposing? What does this say about the motivations behind the Left establishment’s ideological warfare against conspiracy researchers, and their adoption of an increasingly watered-down analytical view which fails to look closely at the inner power structures and conspiracies of the ruling elite?” writes Feldman.

Somebody needs to ask Benjamin how one fights against globalization when you receive money from multinational corporations and banksters. The Tides Foundation gets its money from AT&T, ChevronTexaco, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Verizon, and Bill and Melinda Gates.

“The Ford Foundation’s history of collaboration and interlock with the CIA in pursuit of U.S. world hegemony is now a well-documented fact. The remaining issue is whether that relationship continues into the new Millenium after the exposures of the 1960s?” muses James Petras.

Petra says the Ford Foundation has refined its style of collaboration and cultural domination over the years. However, with Medea Benjamin’s statement in support of the “mission” of NATO and the U.S. in Afghanistan this refinement is certainly called into question.

Benjamin’s outrageous statement is simply more evidence the so-called anti-war left is a sham and a tool of the global elite. Benjamin and her pliable cohorts are to be used only when Republicans are in office. Now that Democrat Obama is warming a seat in the Oval Office, it is time for the fake opposition to support more mass murder and military expenditures, the same as liberals did when Bill Clinton conducted his illegal and immoral bombing of Serbia.

More proof that blowing up “brown people” is now a “liberal” virtue

Massive Ordnance Penetrator: Another Sign Obama Will Strike Iran

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars
October 7, 2009

The Pentagon has put a new weapon on the fast-track. The Massive Ordnance Penetrator is a 30,000-pound bomb designed to hit targets buried 200 feet below ground. Earlier this year, the Pentagon comptroller sent a request to shift funds to the House and Senate Appropriations and Armed Services Committees in order to fast forward the development and procurement of the Massive Ordnance Penetrator, or MOP, according to ABC News. The notification was included in a 93-page “reprogramming” request that included hundreds of items.

	Boeing employees proudly display the Massive Ordnance Penetrator.

See the Pentagon memo here.

The comptroller said the Pentagon planned to spend $19.1 million to procure four of the bombs, $28.3 million to accelerate the bomb’s “development and testing”, and $21 million to accelerate the integration of the bomb onto B-2 stealth bombers.

The Air Force 708th Armament Systems Group at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida awarded a $51.9 million contract on October 2 to the Boeing Co. in St. Louis to integrate the Massive Ordnance Penetrator on a B-2 stealth bomber, the Military & Aero website reported on October 4.

“The Department has an Urgent Operational Need (UON) for the capability to strike hard and deeply buried targets in high threat environments. The MOP is the weapon of choice to meet the requirements of the UON.” It further states that the request is endorsed by Pacific Command (which has responsibility over North Korea) and Central Command (which has responsibility over Iran),” the notification states.

“This is not the kind of weapon that would be particularly useful in Iraq or Afghanistan, but it is ideally suited to hit deeply buried nuclear facilities such as Natanz or Qom in Iran,” ABC notes.

“A deep underground tunnel facility in a rock geology poses a significant challenge for non-nuclear weapons. Such a target is difficult to penetrate, except possibly near an adit, and the likelihood of damaging critical functional components deep within the facility from an energy release at the adit is low. Past test experience has shown that 2,000 lb. penetrators carrying 500 lbs. of high explosive are relatively ineffective against tunnels, even when skipped directly into the tunnel entrance,” explains GlobalSecurity.

MOP contains more than 5,300 pounds of conventional explosives inside of a 20.5-foot-long steel enclosure. The weapon is said to be able to penetrate up to about 60 feet of dirt and concrete, the Defense Daily reported on December 4, 2006.

The Pentagon has moved the MOP to the fast track because the Iran attack plan is now operational and will probably be carried out before the end of the year.

The corporate media is now gearing up for an attack by manufacturing census in much the same way they did in the lead-up to the devastating mass murder campaign on Iraq that ultimately resulted in more than a million dead Iraqis. “A majority of Americans are skeptical that diplomacy with Iran will succeed and say the U.S. should use military action if necessary to prevent the Iranian government from developing a nuclear weapon,” Bloomberg reported on October 6. “A Pew Research Center for the People & the Press survey released today found 61 percent of Americans would support a military strike. Twenty-four percent said it is more important to avoid conflict even if that means Iran will end up building nuclear arms.”

Iraq did not have weapons of mass destruction, as the government and the corporate media claimed, and Iran is not developing nuclear weapons. In September, the U.S. intelligence community told the White House that Iran has not restarted its nuclear-weapons development program. Also in September, the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog, Mohamed ElBaradei, denied Israeli accusations that he has withheld information about Iran’s nuclear progress. Since 2003, the International Atomic Energy Agency has repeatedly stated that it has found no evidence that Iran is developing nuclear weapons.

Moreover, as Juan Cole notes, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei issued a fatwa in 2005 that states no Islamic state may possess or use atomic weapons because they kill masses of innocent civilians when used, which is contrary to the Islamic law of war, which forbids killing innocent non-combatants.

The only state in the Middle East that has nuclear weapons is Israel.

“Those who insist that Iran is trying to get a bomb have a difficult time explaining why Khamenei forbids it as un-Islamic and why the president and others all deny it. It is possible that they are lying, but their denials at least have to be noted and analyzed. The skeptics also have to explain away why the 16 US intelligence agencies say after exhaustive espionage and investigation that there is no weapons program now and that there hasn’t been one for some time,” Cole writes.

None of these arguments matter to the global elite because they are determined to reduce Iran to a pile of smoldering rubble much the same way Iraq was reduced. After the Pentagon gets a green light and loads up its stealth bombers with MOPs and other munitions, the destruction will not be limited to Natanz and Qom and Iran’s illusory nuclear weapons program. Iran’s infrastructure will be targeted. Iran’s non-existent nuclear weapons program is merely an excuse for a larger objective — the wholesale destruction of Iranian society and civilization.

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Barack Obama rules out cutting troops in Afghanistan
US President Barack Obama has ruled out cutting the number of troops deployed in Afghanistan or turning the war into a counter-terror campaign.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/6267952/Barack-Obama-rules-out-cutting-troops-in-Afghanistan.html

Published: 9:47AM BST 07 Oct 2009

President Barack Obama did not signal whether he is prepared to send more troops to Afghanistan Photo: AP
In comments to congressmen during a meeting on America’s Afghan strategy late on Tuesday night, Mr Obama did not signal whether he is prepared to send more troops to the war zone, either the 40,000 his top commander wants or a smaller build up.
But he made clear he does not favour restricting the campaign to air strikes and counter-terrorism efforts.

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Leaders from both parties in the House of Representatives and the Senate held a 90-minute discussion with Mr Obama, with Republicans pushing his to follow the advice of his military commanders and Democrats saying he should not be rushed.
His top commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal, has warned that more troops are needed to right the war, perhaps up to 40,000 more. Mr Obama already has added 21,000 US troops this year, raising the total to 68,000.
Mr Obama also gave no timetable for a decision, which prompted at least one pointed exchange. Senator John McCain told Mr Obama that he should not move at a “leisurely pace”.
That comment later drew a sharp response from Mr Obama, who said no one felt more urgency than he did about the war, and there would not be nothing leisurely about it.
Mr Obama may be considering a more modest buildup of troops, closer to 10,000 than 40,000, according to Republican and Democratic congressional aides. But White House aides said no such decision has been made.
The president insisted that he will decide on troops after settling on the strategy ahead. He told lawmakers he will be deliberate and also show urgency.
Mr Obama is examining how to move ahead with a worsening war that has claimed nearly 800 US lives and sapped American patience at home. The war was launched after the September 11 attacks on the US in 2001, to remove Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers and rid al-Qaeda of a home base from which to launch attacks.
Mr Obama said before the meeting that al-Qaeda had “lost operational capacity” as a result of the drone strikes that have targeted its leaders in Pakistan.
Natro meanwhile said on Tuesday it will step up efforts to train local Afghan forces in the coming weeks.