[v911t] How Democrats Took Over and Betrayed the Peace Movement - Rolling Stone
 
Resent-Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 08:29:11 -0600 (CST)



AAEI - How Democrats Took Over and Betrayed the Peace Movement
Source: Rolling Stone, February 21, 2008 Matt Taibbi analyzes how
"Democrats have surrendered to Bush on Iraq and betrayed the peace
movement for their own political ends." He faults the MoveOn-led
Americans Against Escalation in Iraq, "a political tool for the
Democrats -- one operated from inside the Beltway and devoted
primarily to targeting Republicans. ... At the forefront of the
groups are Thomas Matzzie and Brad Woodhouse... [M]uch of the
anti-war group's leadership hails from a consulting firm called
Hildebrand Tewes -- whose partners Steve Hildebrand and Paul Tewes
served as staffers for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.
.. This is the kind of conflict of interest that would normally
be an embarrassment in the activist community. ... The really tragic
thing about the Democratic surrender on Iraq is that it's now all
but guaranteed that the war will be off the table during the
presidential campaign. Once again ... the Democrats have ... done
nothing but vote for war and cough up every dime they've been asked
to give, every step of the way." Besides MoveOn others in the AAEI
coalition include Americans United for Change, Campaign for America's
Future, Center for American Progress, SEIU, USAction, VoteVets.org,
Win Without War and Working Assets. Both Hildebrand and Tewes are
"senior strategists" for presidential candidate Barack Obama.