Posted on 03/20/2005 4:34:39 PM PST by freeholland
March 20, 2005 will mark the second anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. The war lasted only three weeks before Saddam dropped out of sight and into a spider-hole... but for some hopefuls, it will never end. I'm not talking about the Ba'athist thugs who plot and struggle to regain the power -- built on fear and murder -- that they held over the Iraqi people for so long. I'm talking about the looney anti-war Left, who will spend the next few weeks continuing to protest a war that toppled a dictator, ended decades of evil tyranny and brutality, freed and gave hope to tens of millions, began the spread of democracy throughout the Middle East... and ended almost as quickly as it began. Yes, they're protesting a war that's already over.
When you think about it, it's almost laughable -- when it's not pitiful, that is. Caught in the grip of rabid Bush-hatred, these so-called "progressives" ignore all signs of long hoped-for progress in the Middle East to excoriate its author for bringing it about! Elections and free speech in countries that (in many cases) have never known such things fail to impress the "Not In Our Name" crowd. Where will these "anti-war" folks be in a few decades? It's as if there were still people actively protesting US involvement in WWII, even in light of the fact that Hitler is gone, the world is safe from the threat of Nazi domination and Germany has become a peaceful democracy. Imagine how ridiculous they would sound.
CARTHAGE, TUNISIA -- Carrying signs saying, "End The US Occupation of Germany" and, "War Is Not The Answer," the seven remaining members of Peace For Our Time, a group that once numbered in the dozens, have gathered once again. The group continues its protest against US involvement in World War II, at the spot on which it began 63 years ago in 1942.
"There was never any reason to invade Tunisia," said 82-year-old PFOT founder Scott Whiteflag, weakly shaking a fist in the air. "No Tunisians ever attacked America! We should have stayed at home and taken care of our own problems! The only people who attacked us were the Japanese, and Roosevelt didn't do nearly enough to find out why they hated us and offer them our apologies. Instead of trying to find a means of peaceful coexistence with Nazi Germany, a country that had never attacked us, he rashly led the country into an elective war based on lies about a German invasion of America. Roosevelt lied, and people died!"
The group Peace For Our Time takes its name from the statement made by Neville Chamberlain in 1938, after negotiating with Adolf Hitler. "My good friends, for the second time in our history, a British Prime Minister has returned from Germany bringing peace with honour. I believe it is peace for our time. Go home and get a nice quiet sleep." The group contends that Hitler was open to diplomacy and was "contained."
"We had no right to interfere with their culture," an unidentified member of the group insisted. "All those martial displays and Jew-killing was part of their heritage, and our unwanted interference just wasn't right. Just because we didn't agree with their laws against Jews, Slavs and Gypsies doesn't mean we had the right to go over there and invade a sovereign nation like that. Who died and made America the boss?"
"Of course Hitler was a bad person," said a grandmotherly woman named Ruth, "and it's a good thing he was removed from power -- don't get us wrong there! However, we protest the manner in which we were misled into the war, and the hundreds of thousands of American dead!" Ruth also accused General Patton of committing war crimes against the German people, and demanded that he be posthumously stripped of his rank as well as his decorations and awards.
Another member of the group whose walker bore a taped-on sign reading, "Containment Was Working!" collapsed at that moment.
"Poor Charlie!" exclaimed Ruth. "Now only the six of us are left to protest the way Mr. Roosevelt pushed us into war with his filthy Lend-Lease Act."
For the last sixty years, Whiteflag and his group have been funded by a cartel of Swiss bankers living in Argentina.
Joe Mariani is a computer consultant born and raised in New Jersey. He lives in Pennsylvania, where the gun laws are less restrictive and taxes are lower. Joe always thought of himself as politically neutral until he saw how far left the left had really gone after 9/11. His essays and links to articles are available at http://guardian.blogdrive.com/.
Maybe they will wise up and just MoveOn.org
The real irony of moveon.org is that they can't seem to move on from anything.
Exactly! Kinda like a dog chasing its tail, a lot of activity but not getting anywhere.
The key difference to the left between Iraq II and WWII is that in WWII we eventually ended up on the same side as their favorite country the USSR. That made FDR immune from such protests. I say eventually ended up because in the Lend-Lease days it was the UK with support from the US holding out against Germany with support from the USSR.
They seem to have a lot of movement in their bowels. Unfortunately, it all comes out of their mouths.
The reason why they don't protest WWII is because one of their own ilk started it, and it took a Republican to end it.
bttt
"President Gore" would also have gotten around to a major reform of Social Security in the U.S. and that too would have received a full court press by the Democrat leadership in congress, to promote such a "wise and visionary" agenda!
Their objections have to do with Bush - not the outcome of his bold international and domestic moves. If it had been Gore doing the same things, they would be on the other side of the fence.
You would be stunned with how many professors on college campus today border on nazi sympathising with condemnations on the US regarding WW 2.
I had a professor years ago who thought that Truman should be considered a war criminal for dropping the atomic bombs on Japan.
On the O'Reilly factor running up to the afghan war, a student activist argued that ww 2 could not be morally justified for any cause.
Several left wing groups also today morally condemn the US at that time as being no better then the Nazi's of that era, and Noam Chomsky has argued the same thing himself.
On some liberal websites, I've lurked and seen some argue that was the nazi's did to the jews was there own business, and the US (being the imperialists we are) had no right to war with germany which did not attack us.
The writer of this article is sadly assuming more common sense from the left then they actually have.
Radio talk show host, Barry Farber, can tell you about the protests by liberals against World War II, especially in New York City, where they held forth in Greenwich Village.
Just a bit of lightness here; My dad detested "King Franklin the First" but he was almost saintly compared to the scum on the left of our time. No criticism intended. Regards, Avery
So you're saying that Truman was a Republican?
Agreed, although there's not a chance Al Gore would have responded in the same way.
By today's standards, he'd be a ultra-mega-right-wing ideologue.
Agreed. This is exactly my sentiment ... you beat me to it. How much carp and "diplomacy" and UN machinations would have ensued??
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Democrats don't need to go through the UN (or Congress) when they want to wage war. Remember Serbia?
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