Posted on 09/05/2005 5:29:03 PM PDT by Graybeard58
Once a week, members of Code Pink Women for Peace stand at the entrance of Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., to demonstrate against the war in Iraq. As the loved ones of soldiers wounded in battle enter the grounds, the Pinkos are in their faces with hateful anti-war signs and chants.
Before there was Camp Casey, there were the Code Pink "vigils." But they're getting more attention from the news media now because of the spectacle outside of President Bush's ranch in Texas. But the vigils also are drawing the ire of some conservatives and veterans groups. They want the government to forbid protests outside military hospitals. We would rather see more protests because these are self-discrediting.
We don't dispute that the Code Pink vigils are distasteful and shameless. At Walter Reed, hundreds of American heroes are recuperating from wounds suffered in the defense of freedom and in retribution for 9/11. They've lost limbs and eyes; some will never walk again; all will carry the emotional scars of war to their graves. Instead of the admiration and adulation they deserve, however, the wounded are rebuked by the hate-America crowd gathered at the gate.
Unquestionably, the news media are giving the protesters more attention than is warranted, only because they're soul mates. Each shares the fleeting wish that Iraq still might be America's next Vietnam, with the attending political and military consequences. Each believes the way to bring freedom to Iraq is for the coalition to withdraw immediately, thereby plunging the nation into a savage civil war and ultimately into the tyranny of Islamic fundamentalism. Each believes it should be left to diplomats to appease Islamic terrorists, but in trying to turn the clock back to 1968, they would overshoot to 1938.
Camp Casey, however, wouldn't be a pimple on the backside of a typical 1960s sit-in at Berkeley; it doesn't even rise to the level of John Kerry throwing someone else's military medals over the White House fence. More people attend a typical youth soccer game than Code Pink's vigils. This month, with Mrs. Sheehan in their rearview mirror, the media will latch onto Hanoi Jane Fonda's cross-country, Crisco-powered bus tour against the war and do their best to ignore the sparse crowds it will attract.
Rather than outlawing these demonstrations, Americans should encourage the Pinkos and their ilk to stage all the protests they can in as many inappropriate venues as possible. Because with every sound bite and video clip they spawn, they discredit themselves and their causes, and expose the disdain with which they hold their country. And in tormenting the wounded and their families, the Pinkos reveal the depth of their heartlessness and cruelty, and the mindlessness of their crusade.
The founders wrote the First Amendment to guarantee Americans would benefit from a free exchange of opinions. They thought it the best way for future generations to weed out the bad actors and ideas, to distinguish the visionaries from the sloganeers. In the case of the Pinkos, the more they shoot their mouths off, the more they shoot themselves in the foot.
Woodrow Wilson would have tossed all the Codepink crowd in prison for the duration.
Wilson would have been correct. These people openly support the "insurgents" in Iraq. They want to help our enemies kill American soldiers. Cretins.
Stick 'em some place where the TV camera light don't shine!
Say goodbye, please....
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Another troll bites the dust. Just in case you come back to read your hateful dribble listen up. My sons haven't died in Iraq but they have fought there. Unless you have got skin in the game get out of my face! If you have skin in the game, I say to you that most of the families of our troops disagree with you. We are sick and tired of the whole entire lot of the left wing wacko agenda driven families who try to speak for all of us.
Enjoy your zot because you darn well deserved it.
"If you are so much in favor of this war why are you and your children not in Iraq fighting and dieing? In fact why are not the Bush twins in Iraq?"
Idiot.
MOST of FR has either served in uniform already, currently serves, has family who serves, or are enlisting to serve.
And, you are parroting the tired old line form DU abotu "Dubya's daughters should be in Iraq, blah blah blah."
IF you were SO concerned about the war, YOU would sign up yourself instead of coming here to insult everyone with your ignorance.
I'm willing to bet that you have never served yourself!
Hey you worthless POS! I'm fifty six years old, a Vietnam combat helicopter pilot, still in the reserves, and I'm volenteering to go to Irag (already served in Operation Enduring Freedom). Don't like my attitude?
Tough S@#t! Do something about it, @sshole.
These demonstrations should serve as a reminder of the soldiers success in defending the rights of everyone to speak as they please, including the extreme idiots like code pink.
Well good for you. I like yer style, tough guy! :-)
Thanks. Pardon my misspellings but I was P.O.d. I don't look forward to redeploying (Uzbekistan 2003-04) but the young soldiers in Iraq are so much the best since WWII that I'm in tears and I don't know what else to do. To be called up at my age is an honor and a privilege. I'm widowed so what's the difference?
I'm in Ireland. But thank YOU - for what you do, for MY freedoms.
What happened? There's not even a missing post.
Admin Mods musta blasted bstrangewss before it finished.
Army brat born in Walter Reed BTW, only reason I checked this thread.
#5 was left standing by the mod so we may tell the troll where he is "misguided" Although he is banned he can still read the responses.
Just my opinion of course.
Ya know, Lord Darth Vader Admin Moderator does have this habit of choking off controversial posters just as the discussion is getting interesting. Sort of like Big Government, mustn't let us peons be upset, after all.
Controversal? How about leftist drivel?
You're so right! It is drivel and nothing more. So let it be posted, so let it be seen for the worthlessness that it is. Suppression is an unnecessary weapon against that which defeats itself when it speaks its piece!
It's still there, reply #5.
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