"Violence doesn't solve anything? WELL LET'S TRY ANYWAYS.... BLAMBLAMBLAMBLAMBLAMBLAMBLAMBLAMBLAMBLAM"
"Sheehan supporter Dan Elliott, 71, confronted caravan members by waving a sign reading "Death is not support" "
I don't get it.
The anti-war protestors do not deal with reality-- they run from it. They know what scares them, and they recoil from the fear and demand it all go away.
I was at this rally. The AP reporter who wrote this story approached 3 people (including myself) who were having a discussion. The AP reporter asked one of our group if she could ask a few questions, and our group member proceeded to tell her in no uncertain terms what he thought of AP in general (it wasn't positive). He even threw in a couple of 4-letter words for emphasis. The AP reporter left hastily. I'm surprised this story is relatively accurate and unslanted considering the reception she got from us.
What this woman doesn't seem to understand is that "what she wants" is not the sole criterion for foreign policy.
" Those comments enraged Sheehan supporter Dee Ann Heath, who said she has two sons serving in Iraq and another preparing to leave.
"I don't support the war, but I support my sons," she said. "I simply want them to come home."
If her sons are sent to Afghanistan, Korea or Bosnia, etc- I bet her views would be the same.
" I support the military, as long as my sons stay stateside. "
It's interesting that the reporter ties these anti-Sheehan protesters to Bush. Judging from their chants, it looks more like they are backing the War than the President.
Does anyone who was around in the 60's remember anti-War protesters being confronted on the street by pro-War protesters?
I am no where near CIndy's ditch.
I do detect the smell of moth balls.
'Sweatin to the Oldies'
It's war only when the U.S. fights back.
It's OK if U.S. "imperialists" are attacked and killed. That's not war. That's the world sending us a message that we should try to understand them; or, perhaps, it's "oppressed" people trying to get liberation from our allies such as in Viet Nam. I guess.
Never during the last century or this have the "anti-war" crowd protested against any country but the U.S. Go figure.
The one time when there was no "anti-war" from America's left? When Germany's National Socialists attacked the American left's Uncle Joe's socialist workers' paradise.
Anti-war demonstrators must be confronted at every opportunity. They cannot be allowed to dictate public perception of the war, like they did during Vietnam. I was too young to remember Vietnam, so somebody set me straight if I'm wrong, but it appears to me that the left was largely unchallenged by the Silent Majority during those days. We can't let that happen again or the anti-American demonstrators will get their wish, which is complete surrender and humiliation of US foreign policy.
You call this a clash?
That Dee Ann Heath woman has to be an even bigger barking moonbat than Cindy Sheehan, if that's possible. She has two sons in Iraq, another soon to be there, and she's doing everything she can to encourage the terrorist thugs, the ones who will be shooting at her sons!
I starting to wonder if some of the people who are parents today got hold of the brown acid at Woodstock and we're seeing the tragic results many years later.
Did you know Cindy Sheehan's son died in Iraq?
Someone please inform this mom that it's a sure bet that a lot of other moms wanted their kids to come home from a day at the office of the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and from Flight 93 as well.