MoveOn.org

MoveOn.org is a radical liberal political activist group with 3.3 million members in the United States. MoveOn.org says they bring "real Americans back into the political process". The liberal activist George Soros and a partner donated five million dollars in 2004 in an unsuccessful attempt to defeat the reelection of President George W. Bush.

MoveOn.org participates in the Americans Against Escalation in Iraq coalition.

Have you no sense of decency?

Peter D. Feaver of the Boston Globe noted on the sixth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks,

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In the spring of 1954, the US Senate convened hearings at the instigation of Senator Joseph McCarthy to press his anticommunist investigations into the Department of the Army....the American public was able to witness firsthand the tactics McCarthy used to intimidate his foes. ...At a critical moment ... Welch turned to McCarthy and memorably intoned: "Let us not assassinate this lad further, senator. You have done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?" It was remarkable political theater ... We may be about to witness a McCarthy-Army-Welch moment in the debate over Iraq. This time, the role of McCarthy is played by MoveOn.org, a liberal political group that launched its own attack on a respected US Army figure. In yesterday's New York Times, the day that General David Petraeus would give his long-awaited, congressionally mandated report on his military activities in Iraq, MoveOn.org ran a full-page advertisement that accused Petraeus of activities befitting a traitor. The advertisement alleges, without evidence, that Petraeus is not going to give his honest, professional assessment...The MoveOn.org ad is vicious ... a deliberate attack on the senior Army commander, in a major daily newspaper, with the intention of destroying as much of his credibility as possible...part of an elaborate effort to undermine public support for the Iraq war, and was foreshadowed by an unnamed Democratic senator who told a reporter, "No one wants to call [Petraeus] a liar on national TV . . . The expectation is that the outside groups will do this for us." The effort is funded by powerful special interests, and has all the trappings of a major political campaign.

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It should noted that this complete devoid of logic and critical thinking is what got us into Iraq in the first place. 2 million people are displaced from their home because of our actions. WMDs, imminent threat, "mushroom cloud": all of it turned out to be false, and misleading at best. The American populace has witnessed person after person after person stand up and declare that things are just peachy in this war, that soldiers aren't dying in vain, and that we just need to keep at it and sunshine and lollipops are over the horizon. Petraeus even said during the testimony that he doesn't know if victory in Iraq will make America safer. What has happened to the war on terror? We've wasted so much, and our leaders haven't even thought up basic answers. And the biggest f-ing problem with this from you guys is that some mean men might have said a mean thing against a big man :( But oh well, prepare for a revert + ban.--Firefly22 13:38, 12 September 2007 (EDT)

External Links

• http://www.moveon.org/ Official Website