Secretary of State John Kerry, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Gen. Martin Dempsey and Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter are testifying in front of the Senate Foreign Relations committee right now discussing Iran and President Obama’s requested authorization to use military force against ISIS.
Live feed here.
And during Secretary Kerry’s opening remarks, anti-war activists from Code Pink interrupted and accused the United States of increasing terrorism in the region as well as the taking of innocent lives:
I'm confused. Why would #CodePink heckle their honorary member John Kerry? Hey hey, ho ho.
— Shad Surman (@shad_surman) March 11, 2015
https://twitter.com/2Biblez/status/575654246663786496
Helen Schietinger and Arn Menconi arrested at Senate hearing on Authorization for Use of Military Force saying No Endless War! #AUMF
— CODEPINK (@codepink) March 11, 2015
Helen Schietinger and Arn Menconi arrested at Senate hearing on Authorization for Use of Military Force saying No Endless War! #AUMF
— CODEPINK (@codepink) March 11, 2015
John Kerry actually answered one of the Code Pinkers as he was being led out of the hearing by the police, saying:
“Killing more innocent people? I wonder how our journalists who were beheaded and the pilot who was fighting for freedom who was burned alive what they would have to say to their efforts to protect innocent people.”
Video here:
If the rhetoric from Code Pink sounds familiar, it should. Remember when candidate Obama was the one making the same, exact accusations against President Bush?
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In Nashua, NH, Monday, Obama said that the U.S. has “gotta get the job done” in Afghanistan which “requires us to have enough troops that we’re not just air raiding villages and killing civilians which is causing enormous problems there. It means that we have enough civilian support, agricultural specialists, people who are engineers, people who are building schools and so forth to help the Afghani government do a better job of delivering on behalf of its people.”
It’s too bad candidate Obama didn’t realize the threats in the region in 2007 or maybe this hearing wouldn’t be necessary today.
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