If we use their math I can safely predict we will double our numbers to 1,000 next year.
I agree the 3000 figure from FPD included us. It was probably a "total crowd size" estimate, and sounds exaggerated to me.
"In Fayetteville, N.C., near Fort Bragg, the home of the 82nd Airborne Division and many of the special-forces units fighting in Iraq, 2,000 people, including veterans and families of service members, rallied in a park to hear speeches against the war. About 100 simulated coffins covered with American flags were on the ground. The tenor of the day was somber, with many references to the war dead."
Somber, my arse! More than a few of their speakers said "F*** Bush," "That S** of a Bit**, Bush," and other equally somber comments.
Oh, and then there was the "performance artists" doing the BDU strip-tease and throat slashing to some hip-hoppy tune. That was also very somber, if you want to believe the NYT.
And when one of their speakers, the guy who said he was an Iraq Veteran against the war, started talking about another Iraqi veteran just back from Iraq who went into a nightclub and said he wanted to hear songs about slitting throats and blowing up people and killing civilians...
...When I heard that, I told the folks on our side that it won't be long now before the protesters pull out the "babykiller" insults and start spitting on our soldiers again - just like they did during the Vietnam war.
They do not support our troops in any shape, manner, or form; and we all need to continue hammering them on that.
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