Gary Qualls, of Temple, Texas, kneels in front of a memorial to his fallen son Marine Lance Cpl. Louis Qualls in Crawford, Texas. (AP)
***......World War II was not won by Eisenhower. World War II was not won by FDR. World War II was not won by any particular leader. World War II was not won by Patton. Everybody played a role. But without the sons and daughters of the American people, this country wouldn't amount to anything. It is the people who make this country work, and the ease with which those of you on the left disparage the people in this country while you seek to focus all attention on government, is a sight to behold, and it is why you are losing elections; it is why you are losing favor; it is why you are becoming more fringe and extreme and kooky, because you've lost touch. You've lost contact. You've lost all ability to understand who it is that comprises the heart and soul of this country. You have no clue who the backbone of this country is; but I will tell you this: it's not Cindy Sheehan and it's not one member of her entourage in a ditch in Crawford, Texas. Those people are a bunch of squatters. Those people right now are contributing nothing to the greatness or future of this country. Neither are the members of the media who are down there trying to elevate all those people in the ditch to be superheroes. There's not one of them that comes anywhere near rating the title of hero. They are nothing but a bunch of squatters who are miserable and unhappy for who knows whatever reasons and deciding to take it out on people who they think have control over their lives. In this case, with a bunch of liberals, it's government. You want government to have control over your life, you want government to be able to do this and that for your friends and neighbors and help you, but the simple truth of this country is that it's the people who make this country work. It is the people who comprise the economy.
It is the people who comprise the morality. It is the people of this country who determine the ethics. It is the people of this country, and that's what you're upset about because you're in the minority. The people of this country, the people who make this country work differ from you in tremendous ways. They are religious. They are God-fearing. They respect values and morality. They know what's right and they know what's wrong, and they do their best to abide. You are offended by all that, claiming they don't have the right to make such decisions, while you sit around and make no decisions whatsoever because you're willing to totally put your life in the hands of some liberal politician and that will take you off the hook for having to make any decision about your life or anybody else's. Well, that's not how the country works. This country works on the basis of an educated and informed public seeking excellence in their own lives to whatever degree they wish it. People pursuing life the best they can, using freedom, God-given freedom -- and for you to call here and to come up with something as irrelevant as to say this war is not worth it because the president's kids aren't there or because nobody from Washington's kids are there doesn't say a thing about the war effort, doesn't say one thing about it, doesn't make it noble, doesn't make it ignoble, doesn't make it anything, because the war is taking place. Whether you agree with the fact that it's going on or not, we all have come to the decision that it's best that we win it. You haven't even joined us on that. You hope we lose it. You want to lose it because you want to embarrass the leaders of the country. What must your lives be like? .................... ***
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_081905/content/whose_kids_are_in_iraq.guest.html
We all saw this coming... If only the MSM would read Free Republic for trends in public opinion.
Cindy Sheehan comes across as a person whose original claim to grief may have been quite real, but she has allowed others to pack a lot of baggage for her to carry around.
Would she have been on a "hate-Bush" streak if her son had NOT been killed? Very likely, if her other rhetoric is to be believed. Seemingly, what took her off stride in her steady anti-Bush tirades (which evidently predated her son's death), was the warm if brief personal attention given her at the ceremony when the President met with a number of Gold Star mothers and families of soldiers who died in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Now she has continued to express negative responses to the personal consolation offered her by the President, as either "too much", "not enough" or "inappropriate".
For some people there is no "just right".
And the clear answer is yes: the First Ammendment acknowledges the right of each TV station to decide for itself what to air. Were the TV station a government agency, things would be different.
I guess Rocky Anderson will be known as an ex-Mayor after the next election.
The moment the 'alternative media' in our country comes to such a crescendo about the 'inconsistencies' in this left-wing lackey cum part media whore's stories about the President and this war that her lies can't help but be acknowledged by all, the MSM is gonna dead stop carrying the torch for her and assassinate her character.
At which point, I hope she throws herself in front of a moving 'peace buses' as they're leaving Crawford, while the same cameras that have given her all this notoriety (at the cost of her honorable and heroic son) are still watching.
Someone should ask her during an interview if she supports abortion or has had one. Her hypocrisy will be exposed very quickly with that.
-"How is it that Salt Lake City should hear no questions about the war?"-
Oh, pleeeez, stop already with the "We've been silenced!" crap. We hear your protests and anti-war/America propoganda all freakin' day long. Turn on any news program, it's there. Read any city newspaper, it's there.
We've heard your questions, and we don't agree with them, plain and simple. Shut up, already!!!
Who in heck is this Anderson fool and how did he ever get elected anywhere in Utah? Or is SLC different than the rest of the state?
Don't worry, Cindy, no need to rush back to Crawford. CNN is doing the heavy lifting for you with an anti-war documentary tonight...'Dead Wrong'...about where we went wrong in the lead up to Iraq. Hint: We were lied to by the White House and none other than George Bush! A snippet was aired on CNN the other day in which Colin Powell is absolved of all blame. He was handed stuff to read at the UN. CIA's director, George Tenet is the bad guy who swore to Powell that the evidence of WMD's was sterling, but of course the string leads right back to the White House.
We warned them.
We warned them that the last time they did this what resulted in 2002 were counter protests in the thousands with Hollywood screaming about a "chill wind". Keep it up Libs, and watch more average Americans come out to put a boot in your butt.
This isn't Vietnam and you will not relive it through our military's courageous sacrifices.
Arrgghh! First Amendment rights DO NOT include the right to have TV stations play your commercial! People really have a warped view of the First Amendment. If anything, the TV station is practicing freedom of association, and they don't want to be associated with Cindy Sheehan.
And GSFP needn't worry. Everyone who gives a poop knows their 'questions'.
It is more than a pity that good men, like the young hero Callahan, perish while the Mother......"Callahan" still sucks vital oxygen that decent folks need to breathe.
In her ad, she states she loves her country.....but wasn't she quoted recently saying this country wasn't worth dying for?
She's creepy and confused.....poor woman.
I said last week that Cindy's 'woe is me' persona tends to get sympathy short term, before it starts turning people off within a short while.
Americans are a sympathetic bunch, but they also grow tired of a whiner.
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