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Anti-war defeatism
North County Times/The Californian ^ | Tuesday, August 30, 2005 | Rick Reiss

Posted on 08/30/2005 9:41:57 PM PDT by DogByte6RER

Anti-war defeatism

By: RICK REISS - For The Californian

Recently anti-war protesters staged a demonstration at the Temecula Duck Pond in solidarity with Cindy Sheehan, an anti-war activist who lost her son in battle in Iraq.

Anti-war advocates frequently throw out the line that "you can support the troops while opposing their mission." This is to somehow imply that all dissent is patriotic. Sorry, but that dog don't hunt.

Suppose that you are a pro football fan and your favorite team is the San Diego Chargers. Imagine again that as a Chargers fan you claim to support the football players but do not support the team going to and winning the Super Bowl. Ridiculous? You bet.

Of course NFL football comes nowhere close to the life-and-death seriousness inherent within our armed forces. For almost four years now, our military has been combating Islamic-fascist terrorism. American troops are currently battling these thugs in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Yet according to newly anointed peacenik poster-child Cindy Sheehan, America is not only wrong for invading Iraq but also for overthrowing the al-Qaida-backed Taliban in Afghanistan. In case you have forgotten, Afghanistan is where the 9-11 attacks were hatched and orchestrated.

Sheehan further demonstrates that she has gone several bridges too far by stating "This country is not worth dying for." This occurred at a rally for defense lawyer-turned-convicted terrorist collaborator Lynn Stewart at San Francisco State University.

Even white supremacists and David Duke have cast their lots with Cindy Sheehan. For the Aryan skinheads, Sheehan's politics advances their cause to obliterate Israel and to kill the Jews.

So is all dissent still patriotic?

Other detractors suggest that the blood spilled onto battlefields by our troops is neither Republican nor Democrat, but just American. To this I would agree.

Yet why do radical anti-war activists with their political agendas choose to demonstrate at the non-partisan Temecula Veterans Memorial? Are peaceniks blind to their hypocrisy in advocating for a non-partisan military yet taking their political message of appeasement and surrender to military memorial sites? You cannot eat your cake and have it too.

Other radicals have taken such actions a step further. The far left-wing group Code Pink is now demonstrating outside of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, where a large number of our wounded warriors are rehabilitating.

Will the health and morale of these recuperating servicemen improve with Code Pink's message of defeatism? Nope.

It's time for a reality check for these un-American leftists.

At 2.7 million strong, the American Legion voted to use whatever means necessary to "ensure the united backing of the American people to support our troops and the global war on terrorism."

National Commander Thomas Cadmus emphasized that "The American Legion will stand against anyone and any group that would demoralize our troops, or worse, endanger their lives by encouraging terrorists to continue their cowardly attacks against freedom-loving peoples."

Earth to Cindy Sheehan: Islamic terrorists are not "freedom fighters." Real freedom fighters are the U.S. servicemen who sacrifice, like your son Casey, to make the world safe for democracy.

Rick Reiss of Temecula is a regular columnist for The Californian. E-mail: RickReiss6@netscape.net.


TOPICS: Editorial; Government; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: americanlegion; cindysheehan; codepink
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1 posted on 08/30/2005 9:42:00 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
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To: DogByte6RER

This out of a California paper... I am stunned and so is my beeber! :)

Right on for the author! :)


2 posted on 08/30/2005 9:44:09 PM PDT by Americanwolf (I cannot believe a parent would prostitute her child's memory for her own political agenda. -AW)
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To: DogByte6RER

A little-known fact is that Abe Lincoln, during his single term in he House of Representatives, was greatly opposed to the Mexican War. He voted agains the Declaration of War.

However, once the US was at war, he voted for all supplies for the troops and did what he could to help his country win.

That is how you oppose a war but support the troops.

BTW, his stance cost him re-election.


3 posted on 08/30/2005 9:46:13 PM PDT by Restorer (Liberalism: the auto-immune disease of democracies.)
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To: DogByte6RER
"Sorry, but that dog don't hunt."


4 posted on 08/30/2005 9:46:27 PM PDT by RasterMaster (Saddam's family were WMD's - He's behind bars & his sons are DEAD!)
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To: DogByte6RER
Common sense will not work on Lefties. Otherwise they would not be doing half the idiotic things that make them look both stupid and ignorant at the same time.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
5 posted on 08/30/2005 9:46:27 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: DogByte6RER

The writer's pro football analogy is great. Even the village idiot would be able to comprehend it. Too bad that the average moonbat is so stupid the analogy will go right past him or her.


6 posted on 08/30/2005 9:49:35 PM PDT by billnaz (What part of "shall not be infringed" don't you understand?)
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To: DogByte6RER

"Defatism" must be a new liposuction procedure. Is it better and cheaper than the old one?


7 posted on 08/30/2005 9:51:25 PM PDT by GSlob
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To: Restorer
He voted agains the Declaration of War.

However, once the US was at war, he voted for all supplies for the troops

Please say it ain't so....He voted FOR it after he voted AGAINST it?

It's ni-nite time for D48

8 posted on 08/30/2005 9:51:32 PM PDT by digger48
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To: DogByte6RER

Very good article. Not too wordy and right on target!


9 posted on 08/30/2005 9:52:21 PM PDT by Just Lori (Trying to reason with a liberal is like sucking spaghetti through a straw.)
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To: GSlob

Sorry...an inadvertent typo error on my part.

Although, maybe "defatism" could be used on some of the porkier peaceniks like Rosie O'Donnell, Michael Moore, etc. It should be an especially painful procedure, for them...


10 posted on 08/30/2005 9:55:01 PM PDT by DogByte6RER (Other Bus 19 So-Cal exhibits.)
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To: goldstategop
Common sense will not work on Lefties.

Probably becasue they never graduated from grade skrewel; and are still drooling, waiting for their secondary teeth to grow in. Now when Peter Pan and the Tooth Fairy shows, up they may consulte the Wizard of Oz and get a brain.

That's my forecast, FWIW.

11 posted on 08/30/2005 9:55:48 PM PDT by Cobra64
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To: billnaz; DogByte6RER

I liked the football analogy also.

The protestors enrage me, anyway, but Code Pink demonstrating at Walter Reed makes me want to fly there and kick some "pink-o" tail!

Every time I hear a protestor say "We support the troops, blah, blah..." I think of the poster that read "We support our troops when they kill their officers". (I may not have that exactly right, though.)


12 posted on 08/30/2005 9:58:45 PM PDT by Theresawithanh (As long as Dean's the head of the D-N-C, it just looks better for the G-O-P!!)
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To: billnaz

"Too bad that the average moonbat is so stupid the analogy will go right past him or her."

Also, they hate football!


13 posted on 08/30/2005 9:58:47 PM PDT by jocon307
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To: Americanwolf
This out of a California paper... I am stunned and so is my beeber! :)

I spit up my soda when I saw this thinking that it was the Salinas Californian. But then I saw that is from a local San Diego Area Paper. Par for San Diego. Had this been published in the Salinas paper I would have needed a stong reality check.

14 posted on 08/30/2005 9:59:21 PM PDT by atomic_dog
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To: atomic_dog

I can see this being par for the course for San Diego.... (love that place.)

I also thought it was from the Salinas paper too!


15 posted on 08/30/2005 10:01:38 PM PDT by Americanwolf (I cannot believe a parent would prostitute her child's memory for her own political agenda. -AW)
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To: Theresawithanh

We would be honored to have you join us!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1473700/posts


16 posted on 08/30/2005 10:02:51 PM PDT by Just A Nobody (I - LOVE - my attitude problem !)
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To: Theresawithanh

"We support our troops when they kill their officers". (I may not have that exactly right, though.)

You do, you have it exactly right, that was what the sign said. It was after that Muslim soldier fragged his officers too and killed them, so it was no idle, sarcastic remark.

It was incitement to treason and basically the person who held that sign should be in a a cell next to the long serving inmate Jane Fonda, in a better world that would be true.


17 posted on 08/30/2005 10:03:16 PM PDT by jocon307
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To: DogByte6RER

bttt


18 posted on 08/30/2005 10:07:51 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: DogByte6RER



19 posted on 08/30/2005 10:12:11 PM PDT by Smartass (Si vis pacem, para bellum - Por el dedo de Dios se escribió)
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To: goldstategop

Common sense will not work on Lefties.


True, but a 2x4 does.


20 posted on 08/30/2005 10:24:32 PM PDT by Valin (The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.)
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