corrupt antiwar movement leadership fuckers
By shag carpet bomb • Jun 8th, 2008 • Category: Antiwar Movement, Democrats, Election 2008, Iraq war, Politicsevery single time someone speaks re the dem nomination race who does so by pointing at republicans and wanting everyone to hate republicans more than the shits in the democratic party, i want to puke on their shoes:
June 3, 2008 interivew with David Sirota:
AMY GOODMAN: David Sirota, you talk about conflicts of interest within the antiwar movement: the antiwar movement, which enjoys widespread support, and the politicians who ally themselves with pro-war consultants.
DAVID SIROTA: Right. What happened, in the chapter that I reported on the antiwar movement, is back in 2007, what we found is that you just had an election where the Democrats were elected promising to end the war, and what ended up happening was that the same Democratic Congress refused to really do what it takes to actually end the war. And part of that was, I think, a strategic decision on behalf of the antiwar organizations in Washington about how they said we could end the war. You had consultants who were simultaneously being paid by the Democratic Party and Democratic Party politicians.
AMY GOODMAN: Like?
DAVID SIROTA: You had Hildebrand Tewes. You had consulting firms. They were the lead consulting firm. And I don’t mean to pick on them. It’s just that they were the consulting firm that was heading up the major coalition in Washington of antiwar groups. And so, the strategy that came out of those antiwar groups was we have to simply bash the Republicans to end the war, when in fact, of course, Congress was controlled entirely by Democrats. Last I checked, Democrats have forty-one senators in the US Senate, if they wanted to filibuster a bill to continue funding the war. They haven’t done that. Yet the strategy kept saying, well, we have to only focus the ads, the media buys and the pressure on Republicans. It was sort of a dishonest strategy, and I think it had something to do with the fact that you have organizations in Washington that put partisan affinity over movement goals.
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I’m with you in sentiment here. Dems in the anti-war movement should not be given an easy ride as we know from experience they try and channel progressive causes onto the safe terrain of electoralism. The Democrats aren’t known as the graveyard of social movements for nothing.
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