[Army mom-Ruth]

A few comments and observations of my own after reading Jenny's and Jan's. I did enjoy my self.
Some of the things I noticed were both sad and humorous to me.
The military guy who kept saying he had spent 10 years in the service did leave rather abruptly after I caught his eye,smiled and said, "Honorably I presume".
One woman spent about 10 minutes talking about this and that and how she knew what was right since she had lived abroad. What she really wanted to do was convince me the whole concept of American democracy is wrong. Her idea of a great country is Sweden. Then she lit into the capitalists when I let her know my unflattering opinion of Sweden and socialism. when I let her know I was all for capitalism she decided I was a real nut case and left. The sad/humorous part of it was they don't know the issues, they just keep spewing out rhetoric from someone else and the longer they talk the more they contradict themselves.
Some people did want to exchange ideas but most of the people wanted to make you agree with their point of view and it seemed most of them were there just to bash Bush. As Jan said, when someone said "Well I support the troops" I'd tell them not according to my son who served over there. Those serving over there think you either support them and their efforts to better the lives of the Iraqis or you are under mining their efforts. He actually called them back stabbers. I love it when I can say "according to my son who served over there". People cannot argue with that. I have also had two nephews who served in Iraq. In fact my son and a nephew were over there at the same time. My son and the other nephew also served in Desert Shield.
One woman had her kids standing down by the street with a couple of signs that said THERE IS NO REASON FOR WAR, when we were leaving she tried to stand in my way. I looked her straight in the eye and said, "But my dear, just think,if we had not had the war called the American Revolution you would be speaking with a British accent right now. Her mouth dropped open and she moved out of my way. A fun way to spend some time.

[Jenny Hatch]

Ruth,
I'm laughing out loud.

The sad thing to me was that I was so consumed with talking to the people I talked with, I could not hear what you were saying to those you chatted with. Liberals are loud!

I'm glad you joined. It will be fun to chat with you in this forum....and at church!

Love, Jenny

[jan in Colorado]

Ruth!!!! Welcome to Free Republic. You too Pat!

Here is the woman (I believe her name is Laurel), who would like America to be like Sweden. I spent 15 minutes talking to her before Ruth did, and she brought up some negative information about President Bush's Great-grandfather, like that has anything to do with President Bush.

Ruth defending the greatest Country in the world...AMERICA!

Ruth said...
The sad/humorous part of it was they don't know the issues, they just keep spewing out rhetoric from someone else and the longer they talk the more they contradict themselves.

I too was amazed at how little these people know about the issues. I guess it shouldn't surprise us...how else could they possibly be against the Freedom of the Iraqi's, unless they really are just ignorant about what their lives were really like?

I talked to dozens of people at the "peace" protest, and not one knew about the purple finger. How sad.

So, after spending a few hours with all these people protesting Freedom for Iraqi's and reading all their signs,I thought this might be a great time to remind ourselves what the Iraqi's think of the United States being in Iraq.

There are MANY more pictures like this, but the MSM will NEVER show them.

[Just A Nobody]

Awesome job Army mom!

Please thank your son and give him a big ol {{{{hug}}}} from me!