The peace protesters are pitiful

The photograph on the front page of last Sunday's paper told me all I need to know about the peace protesters. One of them carried a sign saying, "Re-elect Gore."

Never mind that Dubya won every recount of every chad -- pregnant chads, skinny chads, chads who climb on rocks, tough chads, sissy chads, even chads with chicken pox.

Naturally, they remain unconvinced that Saddam Hussein poses any threat to the United States.

Heck, it took some time to convince them that Osama bin Laden was behind the Sept. 11 attack on America.

And that came only after verifying that the tape was really bin Laden and not doctored by the CIA.

They warned us not to go into Afghanistan. Their big rally against this quagmire was canceled due to the early capitulation of the Taliban.

They believe every government save our own. But to question their motives is to be un-American.

'Tis patriotic to protest. As Ben Franklin himself said, "There was never a good war or a bad peace."

Of course, Franklin also said: "Even peace may be purchased at too high a price."

To suggest that there is a Fifth Column that somehow aids the terrorists would be a bad thing.

They protested the suggestion that Arab-American charities were being used to finance terrorists.

I must have missed the apology from the Council on American-Islamic Relations. All I have is a copy of their letter to John Ashcroft protesting the freezing of those charity funds.

I have a problem with placing the civil rights of terrorists above the security of Manhattan office workers. This makes me a hopeless hawk.

From his home with its 21-car garage, Norman Lear assures me that if I drive an SUV, I ride with Saddam.

But the French are the chief benefactors of Iraq's oil wells. I guess if I drove a Peugot, I'd ride with bin Laden.

These peacocks use bashing the president as defibrillators for their flat- lining careers. It gets their names in the papers again.

Madonna's last film was so bad that her husband panned it before it opened, and he was the director. Look for her Bush-bashing video real soon.

I posted this on my blog recently:

TERRORISTS TO HIPPIES: "THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT"

With the ever increasing likelihood of war with Iraq, it's interesting, and kind of sad, to watch the so-called "peace" protesters reveal more and more of their true colors.

For months now, the peaceniks have been claiming this was no evidence that Saddam Hussein was building "weapons of mass destruction." They also claimed that there was no proof that Iraq was tied to September 11 terrorist Osama bin Laden. Over and over they told us that we should let the U.N. Inspectors keep working.

Then, along comes Secretary of State Colin Powell who, on February 5, makes a masterful speech to the United Nations with all the proof we need that Saddam is guilty. Powell painstakingly explained the evidence of noncompliance--including:

*satellite image of a weapons munitions facility, which is known to have held chemical weapons;
*pictures of a ballistic missile facility two days before the inspectors arrived, with vehicles outside including a crane for moving missiles;
*satellite photos showing truck convoys lining up at known weapons factories to transport forbidden material out ahead of the inspectors' arrival;
*intercepted phone conversations in which Iraqi military men discuss their efforts to deceive the inspectors. In the intercept, Mr Powell says, one of the officers says: "We evacuated everything. We don't have anything left."
*proof that "Saddam Hussein has directly participated in the effort to prevent interviews" with Iraqi scientists;

Powell also demonstrated that Iraqis visited Osama Bin Laden in Afghanistan and provided training to al-Qaeda members.

And the response from the left was:
"Powell didn't present any evidence....we need to let the inspectors keep looking."

Then, on February 11, Osama bin Laden himself surfaced on videotaped, and practically admitted to ties between him and Iraq.

And how did the anti-war crowd respond?

You guessed it:

There is no evidence of a Saddam-bin Laden connection.
This is no clear evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq
Let the inspectors keep looking.

And that's not all. Some of the pacifists are heading to Iraq to serve as "Human Shields" even though they admit: “Of course we are aware we may get used as propaganda or worse by Saddam Hussein."

It sort of reminds you of little children having a temper tantrum, with their fingers in their ears, saying "I'm not listening," and singing at the top of their lungs.

Of course, the anti-war crowd sees their stubborness differently. The anti-war crowd will try to tell us that this is because of their "principles." They have said, and keep claiming, that their opposition to war is solely because they are "pacifists."

But the evidence is starting to pile up that this has nothing to do with principles or pacifism. As their arguments fall, more and more "pacifists" are starting to demonstrate that their real motiviation is hatred....against the United States.

Daniel Flynn, in On the Street with the Protestors, describes who makes up the majority of the "peace" movement:

While a small number of families, political moderates, and senior citizens salted the ranks of Saturday's march, a much-larger contingent escaped the notice of most journalists. Waving inflammatory signs, wearing scary costumes, and partaking in street theatre, the anti-American extremists who dominated the event were hard to miss. Yet, they were somehow overlooked in most of the press accounts of the protest. ....protesters labeled 9/11 "a drop in the bucket" and compared it to breaking a nail... [and] what did they see as a serious terrorist threat? A glance at the thousands of signs on the Mall revealed the answer. Placards read: "USA Is #1 Terrorist," "Bush Is a Terrorist," "The NYPD Are Terrorists Too," and "Get the Terrorists Out of the White House...A table display exhorting passersby to defend North Korea's right to nuclear weapons or an activist who cheered in vain for a policeman to fall off a fire-escape ladder 30-feet above a Pennsylvania Avenue restaurant were typical of the happenings at this weekend's rally ."

And Washington Post columnist Michael Kelly points out the anti-war movement:

"cheers on...the speaker at the Washington rally who declared that "the real terrorists have always been the United Snakes of America [and] the former Black Panther Charles Baron, who said in Washington, "if you're looking for an axis of evil then look in the belly of this beast."****(They) marched last weekend with people who held signs comparing the president and vice president of their country to Hitler, and declaring, "The difference between Bush and Saddam is that Saddam was elected."

To make matters worse, these "pacifists" aren't just confining themselves to attacking our institutions. Now, some of them, taking a page from "Hanoi Jane" Fonda, have started accosting the wives of our men in uniform, calling them "baby killers" and saying they hope the soldiers die.

Supporting Korea's right to have nukes, comparing September 11 to breaking a nail and accosting the wives of solidiers with cries of "baby killers"...does that sound principled and pacifist...or anti-American?

At this point, some of you might be saying "Well, that's bad. But aren't you blowing this a little out of proportion? Is this really support for Saddam and the terrorists?"

Giving aid and comfort to the enemy? Sure is.

But don't take my word for it. Take Saddam's.

In a recent interview, Saddam was asked "I wonder whether you could say something yourself directly through this interview to the peace movement of the world that might help to advance the cause they have in mind?"

His response: "...we admire the development of the peace movement around the world in the last few years. We pray to God to empower all those working against war and for the cause of peace and security based on just peace for all."

In other words: "thank you for your support."

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