No, I meant "Anti-American." The Moveon and Answer types are IMO definitely that. I haven't seen a single thing that says to me that they support America or Americans.
For Instance....As others see them:
And what, you might ask, does communism have to do with an anti-war rally?
A.N.S.W.E.R. (Act Now to Stop War & End Racism!) was founded in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Its stated mission is to serve as an overarching coalition of anti-war organizations around the globe.
Unless we stop President Bush and NATO from carrying out a new, wider war in the Middle East, the number of innocent victims will grow from the thousands to the tens of thousands and possibly more. A new, wider U.S. and NATO war in the Middle East can only lead to an escalating cycle of violence. War is not the answer.
The man who started it all was Ramsey Clark. Clark served as the US Attorney General under Lyndon B. Johnson, but has more recently made a name for himself by representing such upstanding world citizens as Liberia's Charles Taylor, Serbia's Radovan Karadzic, and Iraq's Saddam Hussein.
You read that correctly: the founder and driving force behind International A.N.S.W.E.R. is Saddam's lawyer.
Ramsey Clark
A.N.S.W.E.R. was an outgrowth of another organization headed by Clark, the International Action Center (IAC). Founded in 1990 during the run-up to the First Gulf War, IAC was the successor to the People's Anti-War Mobilization (PAM), and the Vietnam-era organization Youth Against War & Fascism (YAWF). All of these groups were sponsored by (and served as fronts for) the Worker's World Party (WWP).
The neo-Stalinist WWP broke away from the Trotskyite Socialist Worker's Party (SWP) in 1959 over a ?difference of opinion? concerning the Tibetan Uprising (the SWP sided with the Tibetan Buddhists, while the WWP supported the Chinese military action to crush the revolt). The WWP later distinguished themselves from other Marxist groups by opposing popular uprisings in Czechoslovakia (1968) and Poland (1981). They defended the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre in China, and would side with the KGB in the failed coup against Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in 1991.
Under the leadership of Ramsey Clark, the IAC was the only major "anti-war" group that refused to condemn Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait in 1990. Indeed, Clark actually flew to Baghdad and met with Saddam Hussein in November 1990, returning home with a handful of Saddam's "guests" (diplomats' families held hostage) as a token of the Iraqi dictator's goodwill.
The IAC would go on to become leading apologists for Serbian war criminals in Bosnia and Kosovo, labeling reports of rape camps and ethnic cleansing "fabricated atrocities" (never mind those embarassing mass graves). When NATO unleashed a bombing campaign in response to the Serbian ethnic cleansing campaign in Kosovo, Clark flew to Belgrade to express his support for Milosevic.
This is the man, and the organization, behind International A.N.S.W.E.R.
lt-smash.us
How they see themselves:
internationalanswer.org
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