The Command Post
Iraq
April 09, 2003
A.N.S.W.E.R. Press Release

International A.N.S.W.E.R.

    On Saturday, April 12, join the tens of thousands of people of conscience who will surround the White House. The whole world is watching to see if the people of the United States can intensify the power of the anti-war movement at the moment that the Bush Administration is intending to slaughter tens of thousands of Iraqi people and occupy their country.

    We urge every anti-war organizer and concerned person to bring your friends, neighbors and family members to this all-important mobilization on April 12.

    ...Baghdad has been bombed relentlessly, terrorizing the occupants of that city and of the entire country. ... U.S. and British forces have laid siege to Basra, bombing and destroying the electrical supply to the main water plant and blocking the Iraqi food distribution system...

Posted By PoliticaObscura at April 9, 2003 11:48 AM | TrackBack
Comments

Jesus Christ.. What to even say? Can you get any more irrelevent and ignorant?

Posted by: mojoski at April 9, 2003 11:50 AM

I won't laugh... really... I'm OK...

LMFAO

Democracy, Whiskey, Sexy!!

Posted by: ally at April 9, 2003 11:50 AM


If only, if only, they could get John Kerry to come and speak at their rally, it would be a dream come true.

The left continues its self-destruction....

Posted by: Kevin at April 9, 2003 11:50 AM

Looks like we know who hired Al Sahaf.

Posted by: FaaQ at April 9, 2003 11:50 AM

These people have no shame and no clue.

Posted by: Sam at April 9, 2003 11:50 AM

OK - now you're just baiting us.

Posted by: Mike Plaiss at April 9, 2003 11:51 AM

What planet are these people from ?

Posted by: boytoy at April 9, 2003 11:51 AM

On April 12th I will hold a benefit to collect "clues" to give to Int'l Answer. At the very least let's buy them a TV set.

Posted by: HeeHaw at April 9, 2003 11:52 AM

I really hope they do rally. Oh, that would be delicious.

Posted by: Russell at April 9, 2003 11:52 AM

this clip is just a small piece of the slime on that webpage, check out this little bit:
"The United States government is telling the people of Basra that they may only have food and water if they rise up against the Iraqi government and accept the U.S. occupation."

Posted by: lucky at April 9, 2003 11:52 AM

They've been digging into Baghdad Bob's chemical weapons stash.
http://www.scrappleface.com/MT/archives/000803.html

Posted by: Dishman at April 9, 2003 11:53 AM

John Kerry is a war hero and much more respectible that you Kevin I'm sure. Besides, Kerry wasn't against the war, he was against Bush's diplomatic approach to the war. Get it straight you talk-radio ditto head.

Posted by: alan powell at April 9, 2003 11:53 AM

So when the war ends in a few days will they claim it is because of the "Anti-war" movement?

Posted by: RockOn at April 9, 2003 11:53 AM

The people riding Saddam's head down the street sure look terrorized to me.

Posted by: Cranky at April 9, 2003 11:53 AM

Over 900 people were found in mass graves in Congo and they're yammering about killing babies in Iraq?

Posted by: Erin at April 9, 2003 11:53 AM

Did Baghdad Bob get a byline for this story???

Posted by: Corky at April 9, 2003 11:53 AM

I heard a rumor that A.N.S.W.E.R has hired Baghdad Bob as their new spokesperson.

Posted by: OnTheEdge at April 9, 2003 11:54 AM

What a bunch of tools.

God, I hope they don't cancel that rally. Let's bus in Iraqi Americans from Dearborn Michigan to counter-protest.

Posted by: phred at April 9, 2003 11:54 AM

Oh those Stalinists are so funny.


Bet they'll be mad to see statues come down. Just like when Stalin fell over.

Posted by: Spade at April 9, 2003 11:54 AM

Many people believe what they want to be...as my mother used to say, "I respect your right to be wrong," even if I had the facts on my side!

Posted by: Knitting a Conundrum at April 9, 2003 11:54 AM

The Left is going the way of the Arab media -- able to completely detach themselves from any fact that might challenge their world view.

Posted by: Brant at April 9, 2003 11:55 AM

Hey Alan -

You're right - John Kerry's a war hero.

He's also an idiot.

Posted by: Corky at April 9, 2003 11:55 AM

[[[ The left continues its self-destruction.... ]]]

he he he

I agree. This stuff is GREAT!

Posted by: Tim Shutters at April 9, 2003 11:55 AM

soon they'll start burning their own cars too!

Posted by: ally at April 9, 2003 11:58 AM

According to Andrew at Apostablog (http://andrewapostolou.blogspot.com/) Two Iraqis have just held up a priceless banner "GO HOME HUMAN SHIELD U.S. WANKER" (footage on CNN)

I think it applies here also.

Posted by: Buck Hicks at April 9, 2003 11:58 AM

I think ANSWER is afraid we'll finally get to see their funding.. from the other side.

Posted by: Dishman at April 9, 2003 11:58 AM

Sure Kerry was against the war right about the time his pollsters told him it was ok to oppose it. Putting Bush in the same class as Hussien is both ignorant and idiotic. Kerry is playing politics while the troops are fighting. Regardless of his past military record, Kerry is allowing his ideology to cloud his judgment. Not someone I would want for President.

Posted by: FaaQ at April 9, 2003 11:58 AM

Hey, and if the Baghdad Airport reopens in time, Baghdad Bob can jet on over and make an appearance to be their star speaker! He can deny that Baghdad has been taken, and that the brave Iraqi people are resisting the infidel aggressors, and the evil cabal directed from London and Washington.

Unless some common day Iraqis get ahold of him first and rip him to shreds.

what.a.bunch.of.loonbats

Here's an idea - how about we bring a couple of planeloads of recently liberated Iraqis over to attend the rally and 'splain it all to these blockheads

Posted by: Wind Rider at April 9, 2003 11:59 AM

I would pass out pictures of "Human Shields go home US Wankers" and pictures of them pulling down his statue and dragging the statue's head through the streets, and pictures of the torture chambers and disappeared....maybe a little bit of it would get through people's heads...but I doubt it...

Posted by: Knitting a Conundrum at April 9, 2003 11:59 AM

They still using rubles as their currency?

Posted by: Corky at April 9, 2003 11:59 AM

ANSWER? These jokers don't even know how to ask the right questions!

Posted by: crimsonsplat at April 9, 2003 12:00 PM

These guys have as much charm as a trailer park in Tornado Alley.

Posted by: Pat at April 9, 2003 12:01 PM

Hey Alan Powell you clown!

Kerry is an idiot that made a BAD comment which had selfish motives and has ruined his chances to become President.

Bush is still president and will be re-elected! And you will always be a fool!

Posted by: Wax at April 9, 2003 12:01 PM

Hey Alan Powell you clown!

Kerry is an idiot that made a BAD comment which had selfish motives and has ruined his chances to become President.

Bush is still president and will be re-elected! And you will always be a fool!

Posted by: Wax at April 9, 2003 12:01 PM

While I truly believe these cockroaches should catch the next flight to Cuba-they really need a good ass kicking before hand....oh yea commie losers-kiss my yankee ass!

Posted by: Gawdamman at April 9, 2003 12:01 PM

Hey Alan Powell you clown!

Kerry is an idiot that made a BAD comment which had selfish motives and has ruined his chances to become President.

Bush is still president and will be re-elected! And you will always be a fool!

Posted by: Wax at April 9, 2003 12:02 PM

What makes me laugh most about the satatement is that it's obvious the writer hasn't kept up w/ war news. Seige on Basra? That ended two days ago. Bombing Baghdad? We're in Baghdad. Oh, wait, not according to Baghdad Bob.

Posted by: miguel at April 9, 2003 12:03 PM

John Kerry is never going to be President. Ever. He is a loser.

Posted by: Dave at April 9, 2003 12:05 PM

"Over 900 people were found in mass graves in Congo and they're yammering about killing babies in Iraq?"

Ah, Congo. A shining example of the much vaunted French "Diplomatic Solution".

Posted by: D. Moss at April 9, 2003 12:06 PM

PLEASE OH PLEASE OH PLEASE GIVE KERRY THE NOMINATION FOR PRESIDENT!!!!!

The only thing better would be Al Sharpton, but we'll take the big-haired, ketchup-sponsored, idiotic windbag that can't decide whether he's Irish-Catholic or Jewish.

As for A.N.S.W.E.R., we need to publicize everything they say. Just like the KKK, they're their own worst enemy.

Posted by: beachbum at April 9, 2003 12:08 PM

They are going to "stop war AND end racism" by marching on the White House (while George is at Camp David)...
That is an awesome Sat. afternoon TO DO list.
Let there be peace on earth. I hope CNN covers it.

Posted by: capsu78 at April 9, 2003 12:08 PM

No, I REALLY want to see who shows up for this rally. I want to know what Bizzarro World looks like.

Posted by: datarat at April 9, 2003 12:09 PM

Corky, OntheEdge, others:

WHO the heck is Baghdad Bob???

I've been following these posts for two weeks now, and still can't figure it out.

Is it Bob Arnot?

I'm and idiot, I know. I don't care - WHO IS BAGHDAD BOB??

Posted by: Baghdad Babe at April 9, 2003 12:09 PM

Minister of Information is baghdad Bob or Comical Ali according to Sky news hehe

Posted by: ally at April 9, 2003 12:10 PM

Perhaps they can get Al Gore and the Dixie Chicks to attend.. ohh Yeah.. and Mr. Kerry, too.....

Idiots...What a bunch of Dopes.

Posted by: tom h at April 9, 2003 12:12 PM

(((U.S. and British forces have laid siege to Basra, bombing and destroying the electrical supply to the main water plant and blocking the Iraqi food distribution system...)))????

Didn't they just find food from the oil-for-food program in Iraqi military hands???
So who is blocking the Iraqi food distribution system?????

Posted by: Blogeline at April 9, 2003 12:12 PM


Personally I hate Kerry but I really hate the idiotic bashing that has come from his comments. I think what Kerry said was a poor choice of words only because using the word regime degrades the wonderful thing that has happened in Baghdad. You guys who mindlessly criticise him are certainly no bright lights either. So, seriously, use your heads.

Posted by: alan powell at April 9, 2003 12:13 PM

Hi, Baghdad Babe!

He's from the Iraqi Information Ministry. They guy that doesn't realize denial isn't a river in Egypt.

Gotta love Baghdad Bob! Too bad he can't be keynote speaker for the rest of A.N.S.W.E.R.'s deluded membership!

Posted by: Corky at April 9, 2003 12:15 PM

bagdad bob is the minister in info in iraq... AKA the wacky iraqi

Posted by: rawsnacks at April 9, 2003 12:16 PM

For fun, go to their web site and sign on to their "statement of support." I signed mine "Another Clueless Idiot."

Posted by: Sam at April 9, 2003 12:17 PM

This is so comical. These people are just so insanely out of touch with the world, I'm surprised anyone still pays them any attention.

The worst part is I know several people who are so deluded they'll actually be there (they go to my college).

A.N.S.W.E.R - proudly promoting International Stalinism in the name of "peace activism" for decades!

Posted by: Mike at April 9, 2003 12:17 PM

Baghdad Bob: The Joe Isuzu of Inbformation Ministers....

Posted by: Steve at April 9, 2003 12:18 PM

Baghdad Bob: The Joe Isuzu of Information Ministers....

Posted by: Steve at April 9, 2003 12:18 PM

This is a prime example of someone's desire for a great sound bite getting the better of their judgement. In using the same terms--calling for regime change in the U.S., Kerry made it *appear* that he considered the Bush administration the equivilent of Saddam's rule. Stupid, stupid, stupid. The American public will not forgive that.

Posted by: crimsonsplat at April 9, 2003 12:19 PM

Alan, it's not mindless criticism. I live in the People's Republic of Massachusetts.

Kerry's penchant for putting his own political interests before the general welfare of the citizenry is well-document and common knowledge amongst the right-thinking people up here.

And why do you throw insults our way? You a lefty, too?

Posted by: Corky at April 9, 2003 12:19 PM

http://tinyurl.com/95hs

The newest sign at peace rallies!

Posted by: C. A. Morgan at April 9, 2003 12:21 PM

The "regime change" comment was not a slip of the tongue. Kerrey used the same phrase in California BEFORE the war. The context was a anti-war fever amongst Democratic Presidential candidates. Kerrey also knows what a regime is and how it contrasts with democracy in 1998. Kerrey said the following on the floor of the Senate:

"This bill, when passed and signed into law, is a clear commitment to a U.S. policy replacing the Saddam Hussein regime and replacing it with a transition to democracy. This bill is a statement that America refuses to coexist with a regime which has used chemical weapons on its own citizens and on neighboring countries, which has invaded its neighbors twice without provocation, which has still not accounted for its atrocities committed in Kuwait, which has fired ballistic missiles into the cities of three of its neighbors, which is attempting to develop nuclear and biological weapons, and which has brutalized and terrorized its own citizens for thirty years. I don’t see how any democratic country could accept the existence of such a regime, but this bill says America will not. I will be an even prouder American when the refusal, and commitment to materially help the Iraqi resistance, are U.S. policy."

Posted by: Rich at April 9, 2003 12:28 PM

Corky: When you say you live in the "People's Republic of Mass..." you plainly show that you have been indoctrinated with conservative talk-radio propaganda. Please, people, don't buy into that cheap pop-analysis that Hannity, Rush, Gallagher, O'Reilly et al. spew. You don't have to become a liberal but really these guys are not intellectually honest as they would like you to believe.

Posted by: alan powell at April 9, 2003 12:31 PM

Alan, Massachusetts is a fairly liberal state, and the majority of its residents are Democrats. There's nothing wrong with that. Really.

Posted by: Shawn Pickrell at April 9, 2003 12:33 PM

Alan,

I would say Kerry has landed himself in a QUAGMIRE.

He's trying to pretend to be one person to one voting block, and another to the hard left. He has to be a flaming liberal to get the nomination, but a moderate to win the general election.

The man is as honest as Baghdad Bob, and he will put on as many faces as necessary to reach his political ambitions.

That's a good MO, except Clinton did it last time, and we now see through it.

Kerry is toast.

And Taxechusetts deserves whatever bashing it gets. I've never heard a talk radio guy call it Peoples Republic of Mass, I think we're speaking from our own authority here.

Posted by: phred at April 9, 2003 12:35 PM

Here's an optimistic way of looking at it.

20 years ago, would we have known that International ANSWER is a Communist Front Group? Would there be a comments section somewhere in the major media where 99% of the comments know what whackos these people are?

The times they are a changin'. For the better.

TV

Posted by: tony v at April 9, 2003 12:35 PM

Alan,

Propaganda. Wow. That's a big word. Good job.

MY THOUGHTS ARE MY OWN.

Posted by: Corky at April 9, 2003 12:37 PM

As the people of Iraq are rejoicing in their new found freedom, ANSWER, the supporters of dictators world-wide, will be protesting the overthrow of Saddam Hussein.

I can't imagine what bizzaro world the Marxist folks of ANSWER are living in.

Posted by: weimdog at April 9, 2003 12:41 PM

Self-parody.

Posted by: Christopher Rake at April 9, 2003 12:44 PM

A bunch of silly communists and fellow travelers are going to protest freeing a country of a sadistic dictator, freeing up its oil assets for the use of the people and allowing them to choose their own government?

Sounds about right.

Posted by: IraqiFreedom at April 9, 2003 12:44 PM

OH MY GOD...............
please forgive them they have been smoking funny stuff for too loooong.
Hope that Kerry shows up to say Hi!
would be a good campain commercial LMAO

Posted by: rowdy at April 9, 2003 12:46 PM

Hey! Did we make Alan leave???

Aw. Too bad.

Methinks we were having some fun at his expense.

Posted by: Corky at April 9, 2003 12:47 PM

Alan,

Give it up! You are digging into a deeper and deeper hole.

Posted by: WAX at April 9, 2003 12:48 PM

Have pity on us poor illiterate rubes, we listen to all those inaccurate talk-radio heads. We suffered such terrible casualties, the Iraqi people don't want us there, and we now have a Vietnam-style quagmire. I am calling Dish Network and demand they add Al Jazeera. I can't stand being LIED to.

Posted by: Rich at April 9, 2003 12:51 PM

Kerry is a self-acknowledged war criminal. ANSWER is a bunch of old-left morons. Both are the strawmen you folks use to beat on the antiwar position in general, but I wouldn't touch either with a 10-meter cattle prod.

The mistake the ANSWER folks made is assuming that if Junior is wrong, than Saddam must be right; intellectually bankrupt thinking, no doubt, and certainly worth ridiculing (as those of us who oppose the war but also oppose the old lefties do on a regular basis).

You can be against the war on moral grounds and still admit Saddam...er...was (at this point, for most Iraqis) an evil bastard who likely roasted babies on a spit. You can decry the thousand or so civilian Iraqi casualties and still be happy that the remainder are no longer under Saddam's boot. It isn't the ends that many of us objected to as the means.

Like the Iraqis on the street, my concern is that the US military get out of town as quickly as possible and put the locals in control as fast as they can. I think that the counter-insurgency post-"war" is going to be bloodier than the war has been thus far; Saddam's regulars were clearly outmatched from the beginning, but there are still a lot of people with guns out there that seem to have faded back into the woodwork. Their goal now is going to be to keep the US entangled as long as they can to make it look like the US is an occupier and not a liberator.

I think we've screwed the pooch on Mideast peace, and we've enflamed anti-Americanism worldwide--things that could have been avoided or at least minimized if we'd found a way to politically dispatch the UN solution before we pulled the pin out of the grenade. But if we can exit before things get more messy and establish a recognized, legit Iraqi government quickly enough to deflate some of the hostility over there, then maybe there's hope of this all smoothing over afterward. I wouldn't count on it, though.

The Russians appear to have had more at stake at a high level (i.e. state security apparatus) in Iraq than the US may have assumed (given all the disinformation the GRU has been putting out as "intelligence reports"); the French have felt their EU oats and have had their belief that they need to be a "counterweight" to the US justified. The Germans...well, who knows what they'll do, but latest evidence suggests that the French were the final winners of WWII. The US may find itself moving all its bases in Europe to the old Eastern Bloc to reward them for support and because the next enemy for the US in Europe might be the Gaullists. :-)

Posted by: sean g at April 9, 2003 12:52 PM

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That's how you Stop War...
That's how you End Racism...

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Posted by: DANEgerus at April 9, 2003 12:53 PM

ANSWER is a front for Communists and like-minded organizations. It should be no surprise that they will report and promote anything to misrepresent what the USA truly stands for, namely freedom, democracy and truth, the very antithesis of ANSWER.

Posted by: Tom Stone at April 9, 2003 01:08 PM

Alan, The Peoples Republic of Massachusetts isn't a term people got from talk radio. Talk radio got it from the people who have been calling it that and Taxachusetts for ages.

Posted by: Michael Wagner at April 9, 2003 01:09 PM

Guys, understand this: In his own tiny little mind, a liberal is unable to accept that anyone who disagrees with him could possibly have come to that conclusion on their own. It must be the result of talk radio, brainwashing, lack of education, etc.

If liberals were half as smart as they claimed they were, they wouldn't be so quick to dismiss the more conservative values of America and those that believe them.

But then of course, if liberals were half as smart as they claimed they were, they would be conservatives, right?

Posted by: phred at April 9, 2003 01:13 PM

If liberals were half as smart as they claimed, they would be anarchists.

Posted by: sean g at April 9, 2003 01:19 PM

Remember Maciavelli's advice: "it's better to be feared than loved...fear, backed up by a certainty of punishment, is always effective."

It works...

Posted by: Charles at April 9, 2003 01:21 PM

Is it really true that Kerry would send out letters in English to constituents supporting one side and letters in Spanish supporting the other side?

What's he doing, mimicking Arafat?

Posted by: Sandy P. at April 9, 2003 01:35 PM

this is a classic.

"Other Iraqis picked flowers from a nearby garden and handed them to Marines."

I'm not quite sure what the march on Washington is really for?

Posted by: honk at April 9, 2003 01:49 PM

Here is a link to a picture of a "civilian" casualty

http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/news/photos/iraq/daytwentyone/image2.html

So, when the guy gets to the hospital, will he report that he was in a group attacking the US/ Or is he just a civilian casualty?

Posted by: charley at April 9, 2003 01:53 PM

If Europe would have stopped Hitler before he annexed Germany's neighboring countries and attacked Poland, Belgium, France, Russia etc. millions of lives might have been saved. Instead Europe let him thrive and get stronger.
Once on their knees the U.S.A. was there to bail them out.
After World War II, the U.S. had the most powerful army on earth. This country could have taken all of Europe,Asia and the Far east for it's own. Instead we not only removed our troops but helped each and everyone of our allies and enemies rebuild.
Today, we saw the Free People of Iraq tearing down the statue of a dictator. We will help them rebuild and we will leave as we have always done.
Freedom of Speech is what the Iraqi people have just gained.
Freedom of Speech is what you have, choose wisely your words, because without the U.S.A. you might not have it!
So now let me exercise my right.

As they say in Brooklyn "I've got your protest right here!"


Posted by: Brooklyn, New York at April 9, 2003 01:59 PM

"Both are the strawmen you folks use to beat on the antiwar position in general, but I wouldn't touch either with a 10-meter cattle prod."

Does that mean you don't want to give them both a good sharp jolt?

I suspect it really means you don't want to be associated with them. Good on you, but you are the very rare exception. Most "anti-war" activists have done absolutely nothing to distance themselves from the Stalinists and the opportunists (and worse) that infest their movement. I will continue to beat the anti-war movement with every stick available until it purges itself of anti-American elements and miscellaneous idiots.

You lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas.

Posted by: T. Hartin at April 9, 2003 02:16 PM

Kerry a war hero? Please.

Traitor

Posted by: Mike at April 9, 2003 02:24 PM

Stalin lives... but his brain has died with Hussein.

Democracy, Whiskey, Sexy!!

Posted by: bill at April 9, 2003 02:36 PM

http://www.internationalanswer.org/pdf/iraqfactsheet.pdf

My favorites are #4 which disputes the U.S. plan to "liberate" Iraq and instead says we want to put in a govt. like we did in Japan......and that turned out how? #7 deals with sanctions but of course they fail to mention those were imposed by the UN BEFORE the first Gulf War, then #8 they argue the legitimacy of the No Fly Zones, which have allowed the Kurds in the North to prosper in the years follwing the war.Oh and then there is #9 where they say people don't support the war, of course they do this by offering anecdotal evidence, no quantitative numbers.

Posted by: RockOn at April 9, 2003 02:47 PM


Just an illustrative anecdote about Sen. Kerry (not to be confused with the former Sen. Kerrey of Nebraska, who won the Medal of Honor as a Navy Seal, and who also had a penchant for putting his foot in his mouth).

If I remember correctly, Sen. Kerry participated in a demonstration against the Viet Nam war in 1970 or so. As part of the protest, veterans went to the fence around the White House and threw their medals from the conflict over it. Kerry participated in this, throwing his Silver Star over the fence.

It turns out later that he threw *someone else's* medal over the fence, not his, which I assume he still has.

Speaks volumes about his character, doesn't it?

Posted by: Kevin at April 9, 2003 02:56 PM

You know, I wasn't sure if Baghdad Bob was the Information Minister or Robert Fisk. No, seriously.

I prefer "Comical Ali."

Posted by: d'oh at April 9, 2003 03:37 PM
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