Who's behind the anti-war referendums? Media excise radical elements in movement....If people knew who was really behind this effort, I believe that these referendums would lose a lot of support....I don't deny there are also average and well-meaning Wisconsinites involved in the push for referendums...But......The votenotocutandrun folks have done the homework on the groups behind the anti-war referendum push. They believe the groups targeted Wisconsin in part because they could link into the remnants of the anti Vietnam War protesters here. They are:
- Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice, a member group of the national group United for Peace and Justice. ...The group has ties to various Communist Party affiliated groups.
- World Can't Wait. Another national group with Communist Party ties ...-
- Code Pink. Affiliated with Cindy Sheehan and responsible for the protests outside Walter Reed Medical Center. Ties to Marxist Revolutionaries and the Animal Liberation Front, among many other radical causes.
I guess that makes Joe Johnson, fighting in Iraq for America, a Communist, or at least a Communist dupe. From the Washington Post:
Father No Longer Out for Revenge in Iraq
AL-ASAD, Iraq -- In the desert chill, on the lonely nighttime roads of Iraq, Joe Johnson looks out over his machine gun and thinks of Justin. It was on Easter morning 2004 that a chaplain and a colonel appeared on Joe and Jan Johnson's Georgia doorstep with the news. Justin, the boy Joe had fished and hunted with, the soldier son who'd gone off to Iraq a month earlier, was suddenly dead at 22, killed by a roadside bomb planted in a Baghdad slum.
Today it's Joe who mans the M-240 atop a Humvee, warily watching the sides of the road, an unlikely Army corporal at 48, a father who came here for revenge, a Christian missionary on a crusade against Islam, and a man who, after six months at war, is ready to go home.
"I shouldn't even have come," he now says. And if he leaves bloody Iraq with no blood on his hands, he says, that's fine, too.
But last April 11, a year and a day after his son was killed, Johnson told his Iraq-bound Georgia National Guard unit, the 48th Infantry Brigade, he was ready to join them. They ended up at this dustblown base in Iraq's far west, pulling escort duty for fuel convoys on the bomb-pocked desert highways from Jordan.
Why did he do it? The wiry lean Georgian, an easy-talking man with a boyish, sunburned face, tried to answer the question that won't go away.
"It's a lot of things combined," he said. "One, a sense of duty. I was pissed off at the terrorists for 9/11 and other atrocities. Second, I'd only trained. I wanted combat." And then, he said, "there's some revenge involved. I'd be lying if I said there wasn't."
Somewhere along the way, however, the righteous passion cooled, as the over-aged corporal, like tens of thousands of other American soldiers here, faced the reality of Iraq...
"I really don't want to kill innocent people," he now says. "I don't want to live with that the rest of my life..."
...He will. His battalion exits Iraq in early May, when Johnson's own enlistment term, coincidentally, expires. "That's it," he said, no re-enlistment for him.
But what about revenge?
If I go home and didn't kill a terrorist, it's not going to ruin my life," he said. "Maybe I'd just as soon not. I don't know what it would do to my head."
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