And they got one.
Ben & Jerry's co-founder begged for enemy of U.S.
Cohen asked for worthwhile adversary just before terrorist attacks of Sept. 11
Posted: January 30, 2003
5:00 p.m. Eastern
By Joe Kovacs
2003 WorldNetDaily.com
In the moments before America was attacked by terrorists on Sept. 11, 2001, Ben
Cohen, the co-founder of Ben & Jerry's ice-cream kingdom, was begging for a
real enemy of the U.S. to show up.
In an ironic and hauntingly prophetic Internet column dated Sept. 4, 2001,
Cohen posted an "enemy wanted" ad, hoping that a worthy adversary would soon
make itself known to justify President Bush's defense budget:
You may know some despicable characters, but are they mean enough to apply for
this job posting?
ENEMY WANTED. Serious enemy needed to justify Pentagon budget increase. Defense
contractors desperate. Interested enemies send letter and photo or video
(threatening, OK) to Enemy Search Committee, Priorities Campaign, 1350
Broadway, NY, NY, 10018. ...
I am distributing a job description as widely as possible to help our
politicians find the enemy they seek. Even with the help of defense contractors
– who spend $50 million on lobbyists annually – our politicians do not
possess the creativity to find the right adversary. It's clear that the old
concept of enemy doesn't work anymore.
The trouble is the Defense Department needs to find an enemy in a hurry. The
Bush Administration has proposed to increase Pentagon spending by $33 billion,
the largest defense increase since the Cold War. ...
My enemy search – if successful – would go a long way toward easing the
consciences of our politicians who support the fat Pentagon budget, which
diverts money from poor children, the environment, and other good things.
As of today, however, my search is not going well. So, I am open to any and all
suggestions or leads that you might have. I am, of course on the lookout for
the right headhunter, but none has materialized.
If you've got any killer ideas, please let me know.
Now, more than a year since the enemy has made itself known, Cohen is going on
a new offensive – icing down the heated path to war with Iraq.
"I would like to know what the imminent threat is to the United States," Cohen
said yesterday on CNN's "Talkback Live" program.
The Vermont anti-war activist is the head of an advocacy group called
TrueMajority, which has created a set of television commercials featuring
Hollywood's Susan Sarandon and Janeane Garofalo opposing a military conflict
with Saddam Hussein.
The Sarandon ad – which debuted just prior to President Bush's State of the
Union address – also features Edward Peck, the former U.S. ambassador to Iraq
and deputy director of President Reagan's terrorism task force.
Actress Susan Sarandon in anti-war ad
"Before our kids start coming home from Iraq in body bags and women and
children start dying in Baghdad, I need to know, what did Iraq do to us?" asks
Sarandon in the 30-second spot, to which Peck replies:
"The answer is nothing. Iraq had nothing to do with 9-11, nothing to do with
al-Qaida. Its neighbors don't think it's a threat. Invading Iraq will increase
terrorism, not reduce it."
Cohen's group reportedly spent $200,000 to place the anti-war commercial on
broadcast and cable networks in New York and the nation's capital, but an
advertising source told the Washington Times it was rejected by the networks on
a national level because it constituted "political advocacy."
At the London premiere of her film "The Banger Sisters," Sarandon expressed
some frustration sparked by her outspoken views.
"I'm tired of being labeled anti-American because I ask questions," she said.
The other ad which is slated to begin airing this weekend features actress and
comedian Janeane Garofalo paired with Methodist Bishop Melvin Talbert, who says
an attack on Iraq would violate "God's law."
The commercial starts with a warning about some scenes unsuitable for children.
Garofalo suggests up to a half-million people could be killed or wounded if the
U.S. invades Iraq.
"Do we have the right to do that to a country that's done nothing to us?"
Garofalo asks.
Talbert was part of a 13-member delegation of American religious leaders on a
five-day peace mission to Baghdad that ended Jan. 3.
A statement he issued criticized the Bush administration's push to remove the
Iraqi dictator.
"No nation under God has that right," Talbert said. "It violates international
law. It violates God's law and the teachings of Jesus Christ."
During the CNN program, Cohen claimed the current weapons inspections in Iraq
were effective.
"You know, Saddam is a bad guy," said Cohen. "But the reality is that there are
a lot of bad guys around the world. And we can't go to war and kill hundreds of
thousands and wound hundreds of thousands of people, both our own and the
people in those countries, any time there's someone around that we don't like.
It's going to create more terrorism. It's going to make it less secure for us
in the United States."
A member of the studio audience named Dan then challenged Cohen.
"Ben, I said off camera and I'll say it to you in your face, you offend me,"
Dan said. "You're just spending your money. You don't have any real knowledge
that any of us here in the audience have. You just have a position, and you're
using your money to make that position, and that bothers me."
"I hear what you're saying," responded Cohen, "but we have a board of military
advisers, including Adm. Jack Shanahan, Adm. Stansfield Turner, former
Assistant Secretary of Defense Larry Korb, and we have a whole set of business
people that are our supporters. It's not my money; it's a lot of people's
money."
On the TrueMajority website, Cohen claims to have the backing of some 500
corporate leaders "including the current or former chairpersons or CEOs of
Eastman Kodak, Goldman Sachs, Visa International, Phillips Van Heusen, Hasbro,
Stride Rite and [AOL] Time Warner."
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19 Jun 2004 11:40:50 AM |
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In article <20040619080502.03925.00000194@mb-m19.aol.com>, (TonyZ2001) wrote:
And they got one.
Ben & Jerry's co-founder begged for enemy of U.S.
Cohen asked for worthwhile adversary just before terrorist attacks of Sept. 11
Posted: January 30, 2003
5:00 p.m. Eastern
By Joe Kovacs
2003 WorldNetDaily.com
Wow, this is really, really lame!! 0-o
(Bush must be getting desperate to have his supporters look for supposed threats
coming from the Good Humor man!)
Woods
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19 Jun 2004 07:49:24 AM |
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On 19 Jun 2004 12:05:02 GMT, TonyZ2001 depressed me with this news:
And they got one.
Ben & Jerry's co-founder begged for enemy of U.S.
Cohen asked for worthwhile adversary just before terrorist attacks of Sept. 11
Posted: January 30, 2003
5:00 p.m. Eastern
By Joe Kovacs
2003 WorldNetDaily.com
In the moments before America was attacked by terrorists on Sept. 11, 2001, Ben
Cohen, the co-founder of Ben & Jerry's ice-cream kingdom, was begging for a
real enemy of the U.S. to show up.
LOL ... you can't find anything better then this??
The only thing that's been able to knock Bush's screw-ups off the front
page have been more of Bush's screw-ups ( no WMD's - Dr. Kay, Chalabi, Abu
Grhaib, no Iraq-Al Qaeda link, Iraqi hatred of U.S. troops, still no WMD's
etc ).
I'm sure Ben & Jerry are Kerry's biggest campaign contributers too and
lived in the Soviet Union during the 60's and Afghanistan during the 90's
too ... although there's no proof I'm sure they went to great length's to
cover it up.
Keep trying. It's entertaining.
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