Posted on 09/26/2005 9:45:01 PM PDT by Miami Vice
Say only 100 were there and 100,000 at the Antiwar Rally
A Handful Came to Honor Military Families & Support the Troops
They came to cheer for Bush’s war. They came to counter the anti war rally. They came to heap praise on their president for his leadership and wisdom. What a sorry group they were.
Their organizers had planned for thousands. The glitzy bandstand looked out on a sea of chairs prepared for a large turnout of real Americans to show their support for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. In the end, a meager few hundred souls showed up. They came to prop up their trusted leader and his blind commitment to staying the course. They failed quite miserably.
It wasn’t only the poor turn-out that made this event so pathetic. First, it was the exploitation of the dead. Family member after family member of a dead soldier thanked George Bush profusely for waging the war that took the life of their loved one. And second, it was the concerted effort to portray the anti war protesters as fools and traitors and left wing radicals. That, too, fell totally flat.
They really tried, give them credit for that. It was a one-two punch. Hit the audience with a heart-wrenching story of valor and death, and then blame the protesters for not supporting the troops. Have a grieving parent or spouse share the real pain of losing someone in the war, and follow it up by someone telling Cindy Sheehan she should move to Iran. And so it went for hours on end, interspersed with sparse applause and isolated war whoops. On and on and on.
And then, of course there were the highlights, the moments to remember – the ones that put the icing on this bitter, poisonous cake. Best of all was the introduction of “a great American” to help their cause – J. Gordon Liddy! Talk about scraping the bottom of the barrel! It could be that many in the audience had no clue that the man they were cheering and applauding had spent more than four years in prison for planning the Watergate burglary. What a historic moment that was, witnessing the birth of Convicted Felons for War! Then again, thinking of Bush’s appointees, how utterly fitting.
Second best was Ronald Conley, a past commander of the American Legion. To the wild applause of his audience, he outlined a plan to deal with protesters – whom he blamed for losing the Vietnam War! Since protesters have the potential to destroy our way of life, Conley explained, the Legion had passed a landmark resolution last August. Among other things it stated that the right to protest must be careful weighed and be responsible so as not to avoid enemy propaganda. Mangled as his phrases were, his intent was clear: fascism lives!
Aside from the families, the afternoon was a venue for a handful of right wing talk show hosts, politicos and gung ho military men. Their common rhetoric, to no one’s surprise, featured three emotionally charged trigger words: terror, terrorist, and 9/11, while the continuous barrage against Cindy Sheehan and the anti war movement was relentless. It could be that the real anger on display was motivated by the embarrassingly small turnout for a dying cause. My money is on that possibility.
My money also is on Karl Rove eating a great deal of crow right now. His public dismissal of the anti war movement was a really dumb move. But he’ll atone by making certain that George Bush is spared any news of the massive rally against his wars and his presidency that took place on Saturday. You can be just as sure that Rove will keep his fragile puppet from learning about the dismally small number of Bush supporters that showed up on Sunday.
Posted by Jesse on Monday, September 26th, 2005 at 3:04 pm.
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" First, it was the exploitation of the dead."
Pot, meet kettle...
Crisw...uh, Decal Predicts:
They stop laughing in November 2006.
We know they're liars and idiots.
Do we really need this thread?
Time to just give up?
Is there any real reason to post this tripe?
We KNOW the leftists hate Bush, and are against the "war", so what's the point of posting every raving spew from the moonbats?
It's like Hannity (supposedly running a talk show for conservatives) doing nothing but giving airtime to liberals.
These commies are STUCK ON STUPID--nothing but USEFUL IDIOTS!
Someone aptly pointed out today that the low turn out was because most pro-Bush, pro-Capitalism folks had real jobs that they had to go to, while the anti-war crowd were otherwise occupied.
ROFLMAO... They show up for rallies, but we show up to vote.
How I would love to have someone post this article at DU.
Peace Activists Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet ("MUST READ")
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1491910/posts
"'The whole world is watching," said anti-war mom Cindy Sheehan shortly before her photo-op arrest in front of the White House. Actually, despite claims by organizers that upward of 300,000 attended, news reports put the actual crowd in the "tens of thousands." The whole world wasn't watching — and don't just ask those in Texas and Louisiana awaiting Hurricane Rita.
Judging from some of the placards — "Victory to the Iraqi Resistance" and "Hands off Iran and North Korea" — it's clear many who took part in the demonstrations aren't "anti-war" at all. They are decidedly pro-war. They just back the other side — that is, the terrorists — and want the U.S. to lose."
The anti-American protesters did that on their own. Nobody had to show up to accomplish that.
It's good to know what they are thinking - once in a while.
It may also help to motivate the rest of us to attend these rallies next time ( Freepers always do, We may be the only ones though.
Read my post to DIgger 48
Great photos Show who they really are
This "Battle of the Protestors" is idiotic. Sorry to say it, but the reason that the turnouts for the counter protests have been so lame is because most people understand the meaning of the old Chinese proverb, "Only a fool argues with a fool."
Most of the American public long ago dismissed Sheehan and her crowd as cowardly, unemployed simpletons who have nothing better to do than to look for some way to continue their never-ending vent about their humiliating losses in the last two Presidential elections.
The only thing that all these "Support the Troops" counter protests accomplish is to bring more attention to Mother Sheehan and the goofball left. Arguing with them is like arguing with a friggin' two-year old. Their act was stale a month ago, but thanks mainly to the offended howls of people (allegedly) on the right, they've managed to stage a comeback. Good grief.
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