Congratulations, Helen Thomas!
While we were sleeping Helen Thomas received the prestigious 2006 Pink Badge of Courage Award from the anti-war, anti-capitalist, pro-Saddam, pro-deserter and pro-Hugo Chavez Code Pink Organization!
What-a-go! Girl!
On October 28, 2006, Helen Thomas received this prestigious award at a gathering in Washington DC. Thomas is noted for her disdain for all things Bush and for her wacky questions that make even her stand out in the very liberal White House press corps gaggle.
Here is just one memorable exchange Helen had with President Bush back on March 21, 2006 at a White House press conference:
Helen Thomas: I’d like to ask you, Mr. President, your decision to invade Iraq has caused the deaths of thousands of Americans and Iraqis, wounds of Americans and Iraqis for a lifetime. Every reason given, publicly at least, has turned out not to be true. My question is, why did you really want to go to war? From the moment you stepped into the White House, from your Cabinet — your Cabinet officers, intelligence people, and so forth — what was your real reason? You have said it wasn’t oil — quest for oil, it hasn’t been Israel, or anything else. What was it?
THE PRESIDENT: I think your premise — in all due respect to your question and to you as a lifelong journalist — is that — I didn’t want war. To assume I wanted war is just flat wrong, Helen, in all due respect —
Helen Thomas: Everything —
THE PRESIDENT: Hold on for a second, please.
Helen Thomas: everything I’ve heard —
THE PRESIDENT: Excuse me, excuse me. No President wants war. Everything you may have heard is that, but it’s just simply not true. My attitude about the defense of this country changed on September the 11th. We — when we got attacked, I vowed then and there to use every asset at my disposal to protect the American people. Our foreign policy changed on that day, Helen. You know, we used to think we were secure because of oceans and previous diplomacy. But we realized on September the 11th, 2001, that killers could destroy innocent life. And I’m never going to forget it. And I’m never going to forget the vow I made to the American people that we will do everything in our power to protect our people.
Part of that meant to make sure that we didn’t allow people to provide safe haven to an enemy. And that’s why I went into Iraq.
Let’s face it… After this nutty confrontation with Bush, the award was hers to lose.
Helen Thomas follows last year’s landslide winner, Representative John Murtha, of Okinawa fame.
Last year, CODEPINK co-founder Gael Murphy and DC coordinator Allison Yorra met with Congressman Murtha to thank him for his courageous stand on Iraq and honor him with the Pink Badge of Courage.
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