Iraq War Opponents Stage Protest Near Fort Bragg

Washington Pest ^ | 3-20-05 | By Jonathan Finer

[Nick Thimmesch]

Iraq War Opponents Stage Protest Near Fort Bragg N.C. Demonstration Is Largest of 800 Held Across the U.S. to Mark 2nd Anniversary of Conflict

By Jonathan Finer Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, March 20, 2005; Page A13

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C., March 19 -- Here at the heart of one of the nation's most deeply rooted military communities, nearly 3,000 peace activists, war veterans and their family members gathered Saturday to call for an end to the Iraq conflict on the second anniversary of the day it began.

They marched beating drums and chanting slogans through quiet suburban streets to a wooded park a few miles from Fort Bragg, which is home to the Army's 82nd Airborne Division and the U.S. Special Operations Command.

[SheLion]

Protesters in Bangor, Maine last year.

[Nick Thimmesch]

The photo accompanying this article has the following caption

"A pro-military demonstrator blocks the camera of an antiwar protester at a rally in Fayetteville, N.C., a few miles from Fort Bragg."

It's like the life question: abortion apologists (as well the media) call themselves "pro-choice" and abortion realists are call "anti-abortion", but in this case patriots are called "pro-military" and traitors are called "antiwar". How about calling them "anti-military" which is what they really are....

[Nick Thimmesch]

Great photo SheLion: I even printed it out & just hung it by my desk. You ought to see the photo from the aforementioned article...

[injin]

you know what I notice about these demonstrations today worldwide ? the red flag with hammer and sickle .

[Cultural Jihad]

Iraq War Opponents Stage Protest Near Fort Bragg

If these people had their way, Iraq would still be ruled by Saddam and his sons, and 8 million Iraqis would never have gotten to vote this year.

[ArmyBratproud]

Somebody please tell me again...

Exactly why to those commie protesters support the genocide murder of Iraqis by Saddam and his two dead sons???

Why do they hate freedom?

Why do they want women abused?


Oh wait.......I think I answered it in the first line.

[SheLion]

Great photo SheLion: I even printed it out & just hung it by my desk. You ought to see the photo from the aforementioned article...

Glad you could use it, Nick!!!

[Rembrandt_fan]

I was in the 82nd at Bragg many years ago--okay: many, many years ago, but I can't imagine much of a dramatic change in the paratrooper mindset between then and now. If the point of protest is to persuade, just who do these protesters think they are persuading? And it really gets under my skin when someone declares themselves 'antiwar'. Saying one is 'antiwar' is immediately taking the moral high ground, automatically implying that anyone who opposes the viewpoint of the 'antiwar' protester is a bloodthirsty warmonger. I understand and respect pacifists of principle, but can't abide these pusillanimous little pipsqueaks who hide their narrow little Bush-bashing agendas behind high-sounding ideals.