Posted on 09/24/2005 8:41:47 AM PDT by pissant
WASHINGTON - Opponents of the war in Iraq rallied by the thousands Saturday to demand the return of U.S. troops, staging a day of protest, song and remembrance of the dead in marches through Washington, other U.S. cities and capitals abroad.
More than 2,000 people gathered on the Ellipse hours before the showcase demonstration past the White House, the first wave of what organizers said would be the largest Washington rally since the war began.
“We have to get involved,” said Erika McCroskey, 27, who came from Des Moines, Iowa, with her younger sister and mother for her first demonstration, traveling in just one of the buses that poured into the capital from far-flung places.
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They're on C-SPAN.
Propagating a paranoid/socialist nightmare inimical to 95% of Americans.
Let them have their way.
I thought all these pukes were gonna leave the US after Bush's re-election.
Issues & Insights
Bad Company
Posted 9/23/2005
The Home Front: The media have pushed the idea that the demonstration this weekend at the White House was an "anti-war" gathering. What they didn't say was who was behind it.
No doubt, many fine, sincere people demonstrated this weekend against the U.S. liberation of Iraq. Being Americans, they're certainly entitled to do so.
Maybe they even endorsed the view of those who organized the demonstrations. On Thursday, the organizers ran a two-page ad. On one, they called the Bush administration liars. On the other, they ran the names of all those who have died in Iraq.
But we'd be surprised if those well-meaning folks understood whose banner they were marching under, because the media aren't reporting it. For the record, the lead organizer is ANSWER, which the media routinely refer to as an "antiwar group."
It is nothing of the sort.
In fact, ANSWER is a front group for the Stalinist Workers World Party. And any group that qualifies for that epithet in front of its name deserves special scrutiny, since Josef Stalin was responsible for the murder of as many as 25 million human beings.
Well, you might ask, does it really matter? It sure does.
Imagine for a moment it was a different group that sponsored the demonstration — say, a neo-Nazi group. Think The Washington Post and other media would report that? You bet they would.
After all, Adolf Hitler and his thugs were some of the worst mass murderers of all time. We would expect — no, demand — media to report that a demonstration attended by hundreds of middle class moms, concerned fathers and pacifist students was in fact organized by Brownshirts.
So why do communists — particularly those who march under Stalin's flag — get different treatment? And why do thousands of average people feel comfortable marching arm in arm with them?
It's a puzzle. After all, according to the "Black Book of Communism" — a widely cited and respected compendium of communism's crimes in the 20th century — communist regimes murdered as many as 100 million people over the last century.
That's quite a record. Indeed, all the century's great mass murders — Mao Zedong (65 million), Stalin (25 million), Hitler (21 million), Pol Pot (2 million) — were communists or socialists.
Yet many well-meaning people who marched this weekend perhaps didn't know all this. Or perhaps they don't mind having their cause besmirched by people who aren't really anti-war at all, but anti-America, anti-West, anti-freedom and anti-capitalist.
It's disappointing that so many marchers will demonstrate, heedless that they're being used by people who hold them — and their bourgeois pacifism — in contempt.
Maybe it proves the old adage: Lie down with dogs, wake up with fleas.
The fact that the MSM never calls these a**holes to the carpet for what they really believe tells me that the MSM wants us to lose this war. Mercifully, they will not get their wish.
ROFL!!!! Great!
Well said. The MSM is in full attack Bush mode. Thank God for FR and the WSJ and Fox.
The battle is raging between the socialists and real Americans. We will win!
More than 2,000? Where's the other 98,000 that they said were coming? Guess I'll have the break down and look at C-Span to get an idea how many really showed up.
Yes, but SOMEHOW, we must define them first before they define us and get the upper hand! Our side has been having rally, after rally and the presstitutes seem fit NOT to give us air time...WHAT DO WE DO? Right now I'm angered at the injustice of the mediawhores fairness...I HATE THEM! We must fight back...BUT how?, when even our own elected representatives coward under the pressure of the media...:(
Relax, Red-State America sees this atrocious display of hate, intolerance and anti-Americanism and it only helps the GOP in the next election cycle. Plus, Rush, Laura, Mark, and Hannity will all have a whole stock pile of hilarious sound-bites to last into the next election! Sit back with the rest of America, laugh and enjoy!
C-Span is scheduled to televise live the Support the Troops and Their Mission Rally tomorrow from 12:00-3:00 p.m.
Cindy Sheehan is complaining that the "media did not do their job". Is this dizzy broad on drugs!!?? The media *MADE* her.
Good! Let's see if ABC will also donate some air time for our side!...don't hold your breath!
Rose,
The circualtion of nearly all of the major MSM papers is dwindling. CNNABCNBCCBS news shows are tanking. They are in a desperate attempt to be relevant again, by pulling a Nixon on GWB. They will fail. FR (thank you Jimrob), Lucianne.com, Drudge, NRO, and the blogoshere will overpower these cretins and force them back to the middle, IMO.
Good perspective.
Now THAT makes me feel better!
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