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The floor is open for discussion....
:Sevenstring, see my response directly above, it address exactly the same question. [[User:RobS|RobS]] 22:37, 25 March 2007 (EDT)
:Sevenstring, see my response directly above, it address exactly the same question. [[User:RobS|RobS]] 22:37, 25 March 2007 (EDT)
===Disputed text===
* Opposition to American foreign policy <ref>Stefaan Walgrave and Joris Verhulst, [http://nicomedia.math.upatras.gr/conf/CAWM2003/Papers/Verhulst.pdf The February 15 Worldwide Protests against a War in Iraq: An Empirical Test of Transnational Opportunities. Outline of a Research Programme](PDF). </ref> which advocates human rights <ref>[http://www.forward.com/articles/the-%E2%80%98answer%E2%80%99-question-poses-difficult-choices/ "The 'Answer' Question Poses Difficult Choices for Liberals"] by Gal Beckerman, ''The Forward'', September 30, 2005. </ref> democracy <ref>[http://www.un.int/usa/02_131.htm President Bush's address to the United Nations], United States Mission to the United Nations, Press Release #131(02), 12 September 2002.</ref>
===References===
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'''Other sources'''<br>
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_15,_2003_anti-war_protest#References
:A wealth of sources.
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.N.S.W.E.R.
:According to Wikipedia, "ANSWER was one of several groups organizing the U.S. component of the worldwide February 15, 2003 anti-war protest, which was, across the globe, the largest anti-war rally that has ever taken place.[1] ANSWER sponsored emergency demonstrations just before the launch of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, on March 15, 2003, which according to its website drew 100,000 people each in San Francisco and Washington. "
*[http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0118-03.htm This Looming War Isn't About Chemical Warheads or Human Rights: It's About Oil], Robert Fisk, January 18, 2003, The Independent.
:Robert Fisk has twice interviewed bin Laden, and the earlier interview is incomplete in all internet versions, if memory serves me.
===Discussion===
Let's examine footnote 2, ''"The 'Answer' Question Poses Difficult Choices for Liberals"'', extract:
:"Answer has had a strong hand in organizing many of the substantial anti-war gatherings since September 11, 2001. A few scratches at the surface of the organization reveals just how far outside the mainstream its ideology resides.
:The lead group in Answer is the International Action Center. Led by the former attorney general turned extreme-left activist Ramsey Clark, Answer is considered widely to be a front organization for the notorious Workers World Party. The WWP is a communist group, formed in the late 1950s as a breakaway faction from the Trotskyite Socialist Workers Party.
:"The WWP decided it would support even the most dictatorial of Communist leaders if their mission was to undermine America and its allies — something that didn’t sit well with most Trotskyites — and its final rift with the Socialist Workers Party was over the WWP’s support of the crushing Soviet incursion into Hungary in 1956. The WWP went on to back the Chinese government and its tanks against the dissidents in Tiananmen Square, tout the virtue of the North Korean regime and openly state its support for dictators like Saddam Hussein and Slobodan Milosevic.
:And the organization’s wider agenda was well on display at a rally that preceded the march in Washington, D.C., this past Saturday: A hodgepodge of speakers representing diverse leftist causes took the stage — from supporters of Fidel Castro’s Cuba to opponents of the Philippine government. And, predictably, the Palestinian cause held center stage, with at least a dozen speakers, wearing kaffiyehs wrapped around their necks and demanding a full right of return for Palestinian refugees, a stipulation any knowledgeable observer of the conflict understands as a death knell for Israel.
:Answer’s wider agenda has made it easy for the right to launch attacks on the anti-war movement as it has picked up steam over the last three years. Anytime Answer is involved, the organization becomes an easy and obvious target, as well as a vehicle for criticizing other anti-war activists....
Soooo...this organization was in the forefront of organizing and leading todays anti-war movement before there even was an anti-war movement. And these visionaries call themselves '"liberal", "socialist", and "progresive", and have advocated such progressive reforms as the Tiananmen massacre. Who were the students at Tiananmen? Why they were a Chinese democratic movement stomped out in its infancy, from which the terrorism of the regime has stifled any further democratic hopes for two decades now, and the people remain essentially without any human rights.
The floor is now open for discussion....