Posted on 09/27/2005 11:43:04 AM PDT by Linda1956
(Stepping up on soapbox)
December 7, 1941 - Attack on Pearl Harbor- result, men and women forming lines around the blocks outside the recruiting stations, including some of Hollywood's finest. There was: Gas rationing Food rationing Victory gardens Stars out selling Government Bonds Everyone collecting scrap iron Women with very baby fine hair (such as my mother) having their hair cut so it could be made into sights for the dropping on bombs on the enemy. Movies supporting the troops, the President, and the country and trying to lift people's spirits. America, Great Britain, countries all over the world united to fight against a common cause, Hitler trying to create the 'perfect Aryan race' and committing genocide. All sacrificed and the war was won.
Sept. 11, 2001- Attack on the Twin Towers, the Pentagon, and the aborted attack on Washington by the brave heroes of flight '93- result, the country was united for a short time until partisan politics took over. Some of our brave young men and women volunteered to defend this great nation and perhaps make the ultimate sacrifice. The press questioned if the 'instant gratification' generation could stand a war.
A lot of them proved the press wrong. They VOLUNTEERED. They are still VOLUNTEERING and REENLISTING.
Results Partisan Politics The Media, Hollywood, and the professional protestors hit the streets; they have a CAUSE again. They line up outside hospitals where the wounded are recovering and hurl insults at them, further torturing them, while the Media concentates on Abu Grab and Guantanamo Bay.
The Media reports everything negative, out and out lies, and does the work of the terrorists for them.
Folks get up and say things that are out and out treason and the press will cover it, but anyone supporting the soldiers and the war are, at best, worth maybe 30 seconds coverage.
The same people who say your child is a a 'thinking person' at 5 and cannot have his or her fanny swatted, who say it's OK for your 12 or 13 year old daughter can get an abortion without our knowledge or consent, say that at age 18, they are BABIES and cannot make an intelligent decision to enlist in our military, and actually stop them outside recruiting stations and try to talk them out of defending this country.
People whine and moan about the price of gas, the stock market, and all we hear is gimmee Gimmee GIMMEE, the GOVERNMENT OWES ME!!!!!!!!!
When we were attacked on 9/11, the country worried about the wrong people.
Our young people are stepping up to the plate and I'm PROUD of them. And any one of you who say, "I support the troops but not the war" are hypocrites! Because there IS NO DRAFT!!!! They volunteered to do this job, which means THEY SUPPORT THE WAR!!!!! So, if you really support them, then do it honestly! LET THEM KNOW! LET THE PRESS KNOW UNTIL IT HAS TO LISTEN!
One last thing, if you agree with these protestors and ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, CNN, FoxNews, the newspapers, you have the right to your opininon, but I have the right to my opinions and I say this:
Every innocent Iraqi man woman or child that is killed by terrorists (there are no insurgents, but TERRORISTS), their blood is on YOUR HANDS!
Every single soldier who is killed or wounded, their blood is on YOUR HANDS!!!!!
Live with it if you can.
(Stepping down off soapbox)
"Great rant, but wasted.
These people believe they can snow the American people with saying they support our troops while simultaneously wishing they fail in their mission. We troops are not dumb. We see through that nonsense easier than we see through the windscreens of our up-armored vehicles."
No Longer Free State;
THANK YOU AND GOD BLESS YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE!!!!!!!!
No, hon, my 'rant' was not wasted. The majority of the American people stand behind you and are proud of you! It's the big mouthed 5% minority that gets all the press, but believe me and look around here, WE ARE BEHIND YOU 100%
God Bless you, you will be in my prayers!
Linny
Roger that!
Roger that ~ Bump!
Taxman Bravo Zulu! for a most excellent rant!
"Great rant, but wasted.
These people believe they can snow the American people with saying they support our troops while simultaneously wishing they fail in their mission. We troops are not dumb. We see through that nonsense easier than we see through the windscreens of our up-armored vehicles.
40 posted on 09/27/2005 6:48:07 PM CDT by No Longer Free State (No event has just one cause, no person has just one motive, no action has just the intended effect.)"
Major ping alert ya'll! Let this soldier know how YOU feel!!!!
Linny
bump
Read what this is in response to and send out ping alert to those I missed! Let's show this young man OUR SUPPORT!
We here are not dumb either and we trump the Has-Been Media in getting the word out about the bravery of you guys in the field!
The new media--including conservative talk show hosts, Free Republic and the bloggers know exactly what is going on and you have our complete support--PERIOD!
We the American people are not dumb either. We know without you & the other brave men & women who serve past, present & future there would be no America. Thank you for your service. Thank you for my freedom & may God Bless you!
Thanks, both. To clarify, I'm not 'in the field' right now - I'm in a stateside post at the moment. I got back from Iraq long before the seditious lefties came to media prominence.
BTW, love both your taglines.
We are behind YOU AND YOUR MISSION. Period. Idiots like Cindy Sheehan and the MSM and the moonbats can go to you know where as far as I'm concerned.
You're speaking to Cindy Sheehan, methinks?
Well, Cindy could care less about your rant. The only person she cared about in Iraq was Casey and he's gone now, so she could care less about any of the rest of those kids there today!
Doesn't that just make your stomach churn.
Excellent rant, IMO. Some people (one named Sheehan, in particular) need to listed to this VERY carefully. Guy on Tony Snow's radio show this evening was talking about his son who is going back to Iraq for his second tour... said he's terrified for his son, but so very proud of him, too. Backs him all the way, too.
Excellent rant Linda! Be sure to post one to Cindy's jail cell.
"Without FDR propping up Stalin's version of a socialist utopia, they would speak German too."
IIRC, you're wrong here, except for possibly the few good-looking women they (the Nazis) kept for playthings. They intended to exterminate the Slavs, too. Concentration and work camps for the Russkis, and being worked to death in them, if they weren't killed outright, like the Jews, Romany, the disabled, and the children of same, that they used up in their pilot program for world conquest.
I don't know, maybe having to learn German wouldn't be all that bad, after all? Of course you'd have to grow a beard, under those circumstances...
Thanks for the ping!
Now that's what I call a rant!
'Notes on Nationalism' (1945) George Orwell wrote: "Those who "abjure" violence can only do so because others are committing violence on their behalf."
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