LeftWing Radical Sean Penn's Baghdad Homecoming!!!!!!
The leftist actor follows communist Medea Benjamin back to Iraq, and
fails to reconcile his opposition to war with the burgeoning freedom
he sees all around him.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=11837
And who is Medea Benjamin?
For his homecoming, Penn enlisted the help of both Solomon and
arch-leftist Medea Benjamin. Benjamin, who described Castro's Cuba as
"Heaven," is head of Global Exchange, Code Pink and Occupation Watch.
Global Exchange, which conducted the Iraq trip, leads credulous
American leftists like Penn through staged scenes meant to demonstrate
the progress of regimes its favors (Cuba, prewar Iraq) and the horrors
wreaked by any American intervention it opposes (Afghanistan,
liberated Iraq, and all the rest of them). The members of Code Pink
pretend to be typical housewives opposed to war, although its
leadership met while agitating on behalf of Nicaragua's Marxist
Sandanista dictatorship. Occupation Watch is a collaborative effort
between Medea Benjamin and longtime Communist Party member Leslie
Cagan, whose stated goal was to get enough U.S. servicemen to declare
themselves conscientious objectors that the U.S. "occupation" would
grind to a halt. She encouraged leftist protestors to work with
indigenous groups to "channel the bursting anti-American sentiment
overseas." Penn records Medea plying her trade, as she tries to
convince Dean Mohamed Taka of Iraq to write a book opposing American
investment policies; he demurred.
Sean Penn coordinated his trip with Medea Benjamin, who was leading a
contingent of military families to Iraq under the auspices of both
Global Exchange and Occupation Watch. Medea's group intended to meet
with family members serving in Iraq, in an attempt to discourage them
and possibly encourage them to become conscientious objectors. The
U.S. authorities were not so easily taken in and refused to allow them
to visit soldiers, although the group scored a brief meeting with L.
Paul Bremer himself (a meeting Penn belittles in his article). This
suggests that U.S. intelligence is missing a beat. Why would Bremer
meet with a domestic support group for America's enemies?
With a tour guide like Benjamin, one would expect Penn's article to be
peppered with cheap shots at the United States and its "occupation,"
and it is, though to a lesser extent than in Penn's paid ads. Unlike
his nearly undecipherable ads of last year, Penn's twin articles for
the Chronicle benefit from the services of an editor, although he
still sneaks in words like "geo-psychological." However, what stands
out for the reader is his positive portrayal of post-Saddam Iraq -
and his lack of contrition, or apparent introspection, about how wrong
he was to oppose the policies that brought it about.
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Left-wing liberals are EVERYTHING they accuse the right of being. They
are mean, vicious, hateful, greedy, cold-hearted, closed-minded,
selfish, intolerant, bigoted and racist.
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