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With all due respect, it appears from your statement that you don't understand the situation. Code Pink's goal at Walter Reed is to undermine the morale of our soldiers and their families.

By setting up just outside the gate, they get to talk with soldiers and their families as they pass through on foot or by car. They are preying on people who are emotionally vulnerable.

It makes no sense to allow that to go unanswered. Just taking a picture and passing it around would have no affect on those they meet in person at the gate.

Gen. Abizaid, in his recent testimony in front of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said soldiers are wondering whether Americans support them. By only letting soldiers see people who oppose them, it causes a false impression to be created. Our presence is a great morale boost for those in the service who see us in person.

During Vietnam, patriotic Americans did as you do. They sent letters and care packages, but they let the protesters take to the streets unanswered. Those protests gave great encouragement to the enemy--as they do today. But their effect is muted by our being out there.

And yes, we do convert people. We've spent alot of time over the years educating people who march at 'antiwar' protests. Sometimes we convert them on the spot. Most of the time it takes awhile for the truth to sink in. But it does work. The numbers of people who protest against the war in D.C. are dramatically down from several years ago to the point that the antiwar groups are struggling to get people to turn out at their events.

But those groups aren't going away. So we'll be out there standing up for America. We can't afford to do otherwise.

Actually, Code Pinko's goal is related to the Dover AFB photos. Their claim is that we sneak the wounded into Reed at night because the military doesn't want the public to see the "cost of war".

Code Pinko has finally realized that the vast majority of American's dispise them and feel a deep gratitude towrds our military and tremendous sympathy for those who pay the ultimate price for our freedom.

By amplifying the "cost of war" at every opportunity, Code Pink hopes to increase the pain felt by normal American, those who love this country and the troops who defend it. Code Pink hopes that pain will morph into a call to end the war.

That is their primary objective in the Dover AFB and Walter Reed protests.

Also, another goal of the left wing front groups like Code Pink, Military Families Speakout and Iraq Veterans Against The War that was clearly stated by those groups prior and just after their Fayetteville rally was that they needed to recruit MILITARY members and their families so that they could front for their groups. Charlie Richardson of MFSO clearly stated that at a meeting of "peace groups" and Hoffman of IVAW offered himself as a front if they just provided "logistics support".

Michael Moore had to use funeral footage sneaked out Arlington and used without the family's permission, along with a unethical edit of an NBC interview with an double amputee at Walter Reed. Both of those dispicable acts helped the left lose the 2004 election.

But what if Code Pink tricked an actual soldier or Marine? Our natural tendency would be to confuse sympathy with understanding. Code Pink could use them as human sheilds against scrutiny of their aims. Code Pink and MFSO have no problem using a blast fax to every newsroom by the Institute For Public Accuracy offering up about 10 military families who lost loved ones for interviews. MFSO set up Gold Star Mother For Peace, again co-opting the good name and good well felt towards another respected organization the Gold Star Mothers. Likewise, they use the public's sympathy towards those lost on September 11th but forming a front group, September 1th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows.

We put a BIG wrench into Code Pink's recruiting at Walter Reed. Funny how the more effective "counter recruiting protest" has been us against Code Pink, not Code Pink against the US Military.