Libs always try to make a plural out of a singular.
Posted on 08/06/2005 1:39:55 PM PDT by kristinn
CRAWFORD, Texas, Aug 6 (Reuters) - About 70 anti-war protesters marched toward President George W. Bush's ranch on Saturday shouting "bring the troops home now" from Iraq, led by a California mother whose son was killed in combat in Baghdad.
The protest coincided with release of a Newsweek poll that said 61 percent of Americans disapproved of the way Bush was handling the situation in Iraq. The poll came after more than two dozen Americans were killed in the past week in Iraq.
Newsweek said it was Bush's lowest rating on Iraq and the first time it had dropped below 40 percent in its poll. Pentagon officials have said maintaining public support for the war is key to the troops' morale.
The group of protesters, including U.S. veterans from the Iraq and Vietnam wars, were loud yet peaceful and McLennan County sheriff's deputies, trying to avoid arrests, stopped them on a road about 5 miles (8 km) from Bush's ranch on a hot August day.
The march was led by Cindy Sheehan, 48, of Vacaville, California, who blames Bush for the death of her son, Army Specialist Casey Sheehan, 24, killed on April 4, 2004, in Sadr City, Baghdad.
"I want to ask the president, why did you kill my son? What did my son die for?" Sheehan, carrying a picture of her son, told reporters.
"W. killed her son! W. killed her son!" the crowd shouted. They also shouted "Bring the troops home now" and held up signs with slogans such as "Impeach the Chicken-Hawk-in-Chief."
The protesters, many who came from a peace rally in Dallas, first drove toward the ranch in a school bus painted red, white and blue. It was stopped at a police checkpoint and the protesters got out and walked.
Police allowed the group to walk on the side of the road for about a half mile but then stopped them when some in the group walked on the street itself.
After some protesters left, a small group led by Sheehan vowed to stage a vigil on the side of the road until someone representing the White House came out to talk to her.
While no one from the White House immediately emerged, White House officials were aware of the protest.
"We mourn the loss of every life and Americans deeply appreciate those who have made the supreme sacrifice. The way to honor that sacrifice is to complete the mission so that their lives were not lost in vain," said White House spokesman Trent Duffy.
"The president has met with hundreds of families of those fallen. He grieves with all those who have lost loved ones," he said.
UPBEAT ON ECONOMY
As Americans question his Iraq policy, Bush crowed about the strength of the U.S. economy on Saturday and credited his hotly debated tax cuts for the growth.
Bush was upbeat in his weekly radio address a day after the Labor Department reported the U.S. economy added 207,000 jobs last month, a stronger-than-expected gain.
"Recent economic reports show that our economy is growing faster than any other major industrialized nation," he said from his ranch.
Bush renewed his call for making permanent the tax cuts he pushed through Congress in his first term. Democrats believe the tax cuts have done little more than drain the U.S. budget and even some Republicans doubt the wisdom of extending them.
"The tax relief stimulated economic vitality and growth and it has helped increase revenues to the Treasury," Bush said, adding later, "We need to make the tax relief permanent."
Bush spoke at the end of the first week of his 33-day working vacation.
"It appears to me, Cindy, that after a lot of bluster and noise, your dinky protest accomplished little."
Or to misquote Shakespear, what is today's Hysteric Left?
"It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing."
We (regular, conservative folk) ignore them. The media reports (most often glowingly) on their little tantrum marches. They continue to hold these "peace marches" and "peace vigils" and we continue to ignore them. The media continues to report on them. Their numbers grow, as their infrastructure refines itself and they focus their message and recruit more grieving family members to be their frontline spokesmen.
And the other regular folks, those without any strong political allegiances, see those news reports; and not seeing any counter viewpoint being reported, will begin to think, "Hmmmm... maybe the war IS a bad thing. Maybe I should send these poor, goodhearted peace folks some money. And maybe I should call my congressman and tell him to get us out of Iraq."
Sow doubt. Sow dissent.
So then we have a repeat of Vietnam. That's my take on it.
CNN will replay this until the DVD breaks or the tape wears out.
I can see your point, but when you say that 9/11 is one of the big differences...
I disagree, because the same MSM that shows these piddling little protests, over and over, also show the congresscritters saying, over and over that the war in Iraq doesn't have anything to do with 9/11.
Therefore, a lot of the people that may now be saying they are against it, but once were FOR it, may be succumbing to the constant drumbeat of anti-war propaganda the the libs and dems have been screaming since 2002!
RE: the war in Vietnam, I was too young to know how the war was handled in the run-up to the John Kerry/Jane Fonda anti-war hearings and protests...so I don't know if we are replicating that now or not.
I predict that President Bush will meet with Cindy Sheehan before the day is out tomorrow.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050806/ap_on_re_us/bush_peace_mom
Mom Protesting Iraq War Meets Bush Aides By DEB RIECHMANN, Associated Press Writer
41 minutes ago
CRAWFORD, Texas - The angry mother of a fallen U.S. soldier staged a protest near President Bush's ranch Saturday, demanding an accounting from Bush of how he has conducted the war in Iraq
Supported by more than 50 demonstrators who chanted, "W. killed her son!" Cindy Sheehan told reporters: "I want to ask the president, 'Why did you kill my son? What did my son die for?'" Sheehan, 48, didn't get to see Bush, but did talk about 45 minutes with national security adviser Steve Hadley and deputy White House chief of staff Joe Hagin, who went out to hear her concerns.
Appreciative of their attention, yet undaunted, Sheehan said she planned to continue her roadside vigil, except for a few breaks, until she gets to talk to Bush. Her son, Casey, 24, was killed in Sadr City, Iraq, on April 4, 2004. He was an Army specialist, a Humvee mechanic.
"They (the advisers) said we are in Iraq because they believed Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, that the world's a better place with Saddam gone and that we're making the world a safer place with what we're doing over there," Sheehan said in a telephone interview after the meeting.
"They were very respectful. They were nice men. I told them Iraq was not a threat to the United States and that now people are dead for nothing. I told them I wouldn't leave until I talked to George Bush."
She said Hagin told her, "I want to assure you that he (Bush) really does care."
"And I said if he does care, why doesn't he come out and talk to me."
Sheehan arrived in Crawford aboard a bus painted red, white and blue and emblazoned with the words, "Impeachment Tour." Sheehan, from Vacaville, Calif., had been attending a Veterans for Peace convention in Dallas.
The bus, trailed by about 20 cars of protesters and reporters, drove at about 15 mph toward Bush's ranch. After several miles, they parked the vehicles and began to march, in stifling heat, farther down the narrow country road.
Flanked by miles of pasture, Sheehan spoke with reporters while clutching two photographs, one of her son in uniform, and the other, a baby picture, when he was seven months old.
She said she decided to come to Crawford a few days ago after Bush said that fallen U.S. troops had died for a noble cause and that the mission must be completed.
"I want to ask the president, `Why did you kill my son? What did my son die for?" she said, her voice cracking with emotion. "Last week, you said my son died for a noble cause' and I want to ask him what that noble cause is?"
White House spokesman Trent Duffy said response that Bush also wants the troops to return home safely.
"Many of the hundreds of families the president has met with know their loved one died for a noble cause and that the best way to honor their sacrifice is to complete the mission," Duffy said.
"It is a message the president has heard time and again from those he has met with and comforted. Like all Americans, he wants the troops home as soon as possible."
The group marched about a half-mile before local law enforcement officials stopped them at a bend in the road, still four to five miles from the ranch's entrance. Capt. Kenneth Vanek of the McLennan County Sheriff's Office said the group was stopped because some marchers ignored instructions to walk in the ditch beside the road, not on the road.
"If they won't cooperate, we won't," Vanek said.
Libs always try to make a plural out of a singular.
So I guess we should use intell reports from civilians from now on!
/for the sarcasm impaired.
This greiving civi is understandably upset, and not able to reason through the emotions involved. The commies taking advantage of her situation should be tried for SEDITION!!!!!!!! NOW!!!!!!
Kill A Commie For Mommie
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Excellent point Kristin.
The title should read, "Anti American Marxist Front Groups March Toward Bush Ranch." Then it would be correct.
Combining this with your comments about the chiggers, snakes, and stickers who are the chickens here? LOL
Alrighty then.
What about the effect that this kind of protest, and its subsequent reporting by practically every news outlet in this country, will have on the US military who see and read the news reports?
Do you think they will be so nonchalant about it, or will they be angry? Will they begin to question their role in this "illegitimate war" and will they begin to wonder if many or most Americans also share these protesters opinion?
Is that a risk worth taking?
Photos taken by a protester, at the bottom of this report page.
No, this will never turn into another Vietnam.
We have to think of a counter strategy.
I suggest that we fund groups who will place television ads explaining why we are in Iraq, why we aren't leaving, why we need to continue the effort.
Unless we have some public explanations, we are going to be hurt by the MSM. The President speaks often, but it doesn't help much because of the MSM's control over what is coveed.
Ads are the key. I hope some of the 501c3's are willing to step up to the plate.
There is a thread here on FR that has a post that says she already HAS met with President Bush...
He invited her to the White House a few months after her son died, and met with her and her daughter privately....she came out of the meeting saying that President Bush has soul less eyes, and doesn't care anything about the men....
If any of ya'll are interested, I can ping you to the thread.
The only "data" I go on, (and it is prolly a mistake), are the different polling numbers NOW, than before...re: Americans changing their minds.
LOL---I loved that one picture with the old guy in the tie-dyed shirt and bandana around his head...
WHOA, what decade does he think it is????
Sounds like Cindy's followers are deserting her...oh, well, it must be the good movies out right now..hehe
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