Support Our Troops (by Susie "Medea" Benjamin of Code Pink )

The Nation ^ | Thursday, November 10, 2005 | Susie "Medea" Benjamin and Gayle Brandeis

[kristinn]

By making young men and women fight an unwinnable war

Medea's version of 'supporting the troops' is to give $600,000 in cash and aid to Al Qaeda in Iraq while telling our troops at Walter Reed they are fighting in an unwinnable war.

[Heatseeker]

Gee, looks like you've made her mad. When you're catching flak, you know you're over the target.

[RedBeaconNY]

Ma'am, I think you need a joint.

Now go fall in line with all the other smelly hippies.

[kristinn]

Hehe. Yep, they can't stand it that we've matched them outside Walter Reed every Friday night.

[goldstategop]

The Left is being dishonest. They don't want our troops to win. And when they say they support them, its a bald-faced lie. Susie "Medea" Benjamin and the Code Pink Commies and the rest of the kook Left endlessly repeat Bush lied about the war. Well then how can they support our troops in a war they believe was a lie from the outset? They can't and they know it.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie.Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

[ChuckShick]

Since March, peace groups including CodePink and Veterans for Peace have been staging a weekly candlelight vigil in front of Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, DC, to highlight the needs of injured soldiers.

What a jerk. What's that word that the University of Colorado president used as a term of endearment? I can't say it here.

[Edgerunner]

The Pinkos strike again! This article is written at a 3rd grade level. Is this pinko a writer or does she think her use of standard anti-American talking points will persuade anyone with any reasoning capability?

[wagglebee]

It looks like you are doing a great job pissing her off!

Keep it up!

[BufordP]

ping

[Personal Responsibility]

If I was in the service and I got moral support like that, I would turn it away. What good is support when all it does is make me question myself? That's not support at all.

[reagan_fanatic]

It's wonderful that you guys are out there opposing these traitors and making sure they don't monopolize the issue. Keep us the good work, Kristinn!

[bmwcyle]

Unwinnable only when America quits. Then we live to fight it again.

[Ouderkirk]

But is the Administration supporting our troops by sending them into a war based on lies?

Let's assume for the sake of this argument that Bush lied. This then begs the question, why?

Can it not be said that if Bush said " I want to take down Saddam Hussein because he is generally a pain in the ass and I'm sick of his shit", these nitwits at code Pinko would have had a hissy fit and screamed "not in my name", "no blood for oil" and "Breasts not bombs" just as they are today. Would the Demoncraps and the MSM 5th Column, and all those on the take in Kofie the Criminal's Oil for Graft program opposed it just the same?

It seems to me that Bush sort of painted himself into this corner by trying to justify the step-down of Saddam with sensational WMD charges. I'm sure that Saddam had everything that Bush said that he did. But in the Run-up to the invasion Saddam had the chance to scatter his stocks and bury them in the desert just to make the US look bad, which again Saddam has again managed to do.

No, this is not about supporting the troops as Code Pinko has suggested, it is about advancing the idea that Bush lied, and that they want to start impeachment proceedings against him. I believe as I suggester earlier that Saddam was a pain in the ass and he needed to be dealt with. He didn't follow the prescriptions for surrender from the first gulf war and there were no other justifications necessary.

[bmwcyle]

Lately, the vigils have been met by aggressive counterdemonstrators, who line up on the opposite side of the street with signs denouncing the vigil.

Medea the DC Chapter has been there and out numbered you since day one.

ping

[tgslTakoma]

Even Code PinkOs' fellow travelers think protesting at a military hospital is a trashy thing to do:

Rule 3: forget your moral questions about the war. Morality is for those who support the war and for those who oppose the war, not for those in the war. Those seriously wounded are still fighting the war so clam up about the immorality of this stupid war.

A corollary to this rule is never protest against a war in front of a military facility, especially a military hospital. That is a no-brainer. You demonstrate against those who made the policy to go to war, not against those who are sworn to carry out the order to go to war.

Code Pink has posted on their Website the article that I linked and excerpted above. Apparently they either didn't read the advice within it, or they disregarded the advice.

If the latter, then that is proof positive that they don't care about the troops; that their goal is to humiliate and demoralize the wounded soldiers and their families, and to increase the pain and anguish they are experiencing as they fight to live and to heal their wounds.

[R. Scott]

[EmilyGeiger]

I really appreciate all of your efforts. Thank you, kristinn.

[tgslTakoma]

It looks like you are doing a great job pissing her off!

Side benefit.

What we really want is for them to go away.

One day they are going to get on a wounded soldier's last nerve...

[theDentist]

She seems in serious need of a Midol.

[tgslTakoma]

Thanks for the ping, Buford.