Antiwar activists play political card

MSNBC ^ | 2-14-2003 | Tom Curry

[Cacique]

Antiwar activists play political card
Movement seeks to use Iraq issue to help unseat congressional incumbents in 2004 — or halt war altogether
Anti-war demonstrators rally in New York's Times Square hours after U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell addressed the U.N. Security Council on Feb. 5.
By Tom Curry MSNBC

Feb. 13 —  Can the anti-Iraq war movement prevent a U.S. attack and, in next year’s elections, oust members of Congress who back President Bush’s Iraq policy? To do so, the movement will need to broaden its base and expand its campaign fund-raising apparatus. The movement’s protest strategy will be seen in the streets of New York and other cities this Saturday and Sunday, but its electoral strategy for next year is only in its embryonic stage.

[Cacique]

Looks like these losers will try intimidation and other means to achieve what they cannot via protests and the ballot box. Typical of the leftist scum.

[wretchard]

Conservatives are being out-organized by the radical left. They are consumate professional agitators, not to be underestimated. Unchecked, the left could pull off another Vietnam, in which America's unbeaten Army was forced off the battlefield. Except this time, the front lines are not in the Central Highlands, but in downtown Manhattan. If America is destroyed by the Left, there will be no place for the Red Zone people to go but the Gulag. Make no mistake but that an American Gulag would be the worst of all.

[11B3]

Conversely, if we would declare war then we could put these scumbags in some camps as well.

[TLBSHOW]

Michael Savage tonight said Bush won't go to war he waited too long and had listened to very bad advice. Says he will back out there will be No war!

[USNFighting31st]

Need to counter these pin-heads with more Support the Troops rallies like the ones being held in Western Washinton. Last weekend we had 800+ people. We chalange other states to do same.............

This weekend Operation Support Our Troops Rally at McChord Air Force Base Saturday, February, 15, 2003, 11:00 am. to 1:00p.m. more info at OSOT website http://www.ron-siddell.com/

[dixiechick2000]

To do so would be committing political suicide. I believe President Bush understands this.

Savage ain't always right.

[JoJo Gunn]

Only someone brain dead would give a Leftist Collaborator any credibility.

They claim they're the champion of human rights, yet all I see from them is that they want everyone to leave the Butcher of Baghdad alone.

Should we expect truth and logic from the fisting crowd?

[LdSentinal]

Let's take a look at the facts. The United States has close to 150,000 troops, several aircraft carriers, and 100+ planes in the region. The British, too, have a sizeable force in the region. Israel has begun its "pushback" in the West Bank and the Gaza strip. Fighting will start whether or not the United Nations complies. Bush, Rice, Powell, and especially Cheney and Rumsfield have no love for the United Nations. Thank god Baker is not in this cabinet.

Anyway, both France and Germany knows that the war will start soon. Do they actually believe the United States will pull out its forces in the region just like that? I don't think so.

[Cacique]

The momentum has been set in cement. Bush has no choice but to go forward. There will be a war. What Conservatives must do is expose the left for the traitorous anti-american, anti-democratic stalinist thugs that they are.

[Cacique]

We are meaking a few mistakes, but conservatives are awakening. We need to do more organizing. We need to go into the minority neighborhoods and the democratic strongholds and recruit, recruit, recruit.

[Cacique]

ping

[Clemenza]

See ya tomorrow when we counterprotest these Patchouli-wearing weekend Wobblies.

[zeaal]

The thing about the 'anti-wars' is they have NO single one agenda. They message is not just anti-war. All of their multiple messages are being lost and every rally is confusing. After tomorrow (big rally day) they will lose millions because grandmas, and mommies, and those that are not radical will be showing up to merely protest a potential war and these kind, peace-loving people will find themselves in the middle of a cesspool of HATE. The organizers are the last ones in the line when it comes to being peaceful and spreading peace. If it takes peace to make peace (according to the anti-wars) they have lost because every time one of their representatives appears on TV or speaks on the radio they are bottled hate ready to burst.

[Travis McGee]

We ned to get out on the streets and make ourselves seen and heard to!

[mikenola]

[doug from upland]

Savage is simply wrong on this one. It is going as scheduled and will begin during the first week of March.

[Grampa Dave]

Savage hates GW and is doing the same teenage vile talk that he did against GW before we started the action in Afghanistan.

That was when I pulled the plug on Savage.

[Grampa Dave]

You left out one important thing re these anti war slimeballs.

How much of their activity is being financed by Opecker Islamofascist Cash Cows like their Uncle Soddomite, Iran and the Wahhabi death cult financiers.

[jimtorr]

I agree. For some reason Savage, and Drudge too, do not like GW, and constantly belittle him. You'd think they'd never heard the Reagan principle, to at least not attack our own.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

I now think it's a nice thing that the leftists are throwing a big going away party today for their best buddy Saddam. That should be in the title of all anti war protest threads.

Leftists throw going away party for Saddam.