Right on time for the somber eighth anniversary of the Afghanistan war and occupation, Code Pink
founder and primary spokeswoman Medea Benjamin has announced that her
organization – which made so many headlines and newscasts protesting
"Bush’s war" – is now "rethinking" their position on Afghanistan. A
piece in the Christian Science Monitor, which Code Pink is now strenuously trying to spin,
reports that the famous antiwar group is seriously amending their
position after listening to the views of Afghan women. On a recent trip
to Afghanistan, the leaders of Code Pink met Afghan women who opposed
the idea of a US withdrawal, and this somehow forced them into a
reevaluation of their views. As the Monitor reports: