Bruce tells soldiers to "get lost."
Posted on 09/13/2006 12:16:18 PM PDT by Citizen SMASH
This past Friday I went back to Walter Reed, hoping to get some more interviews with the Code Pink protesters. But Bruce Wolf, the Code Pink bouncer, is on to my game.
Bruce: Sir, please leave... I’m not trying to be fascist or something...
SMASH: No, hopefully not! Nobody wants that...
Bruce: But it’s making people feel uncomfortable... We’re not here to do interviews... What we’re thinking about, to be really honest, are the soldiers. You know, whether you believe us or not, that’s what we’re here for... when soldiers come out, we like to talk to them, because we know that they need to… I mean, it’s healthy for them. They can say whatever they want, but just to be able to speak their minds. We have no problem with that. We communicate, and they can tell us what’s going on. But, that’s 'cause we’re here for them.
So I leave the protesters alone.
About an hour later, two wounded soldiers from Walter Reed, P.D. and Mason, go down to talk to Code Pink. I catch them as they're headed back, and ask how they were received by the protesters.
Mason: They wouldn’t even talk to us! How are they supporting us, if they won’t even talk to us, or look us in the eye?
P.D.: The general attitude was, they were kind of pushing us out. Wouldn’t talk to us. Just blowing us off.
SMASH: Had you identified yourselves as soldiers from Walter Reed?
P.D.: Oh, yeah...
Mason: Oh, yes sir. We had told them all about our background. I served in Iraq. He served in Afghanistan and Iraq. We were patients at the hospital. That we were just curious... But that did not seem like a good answer to them.
P.D.: They were closed-minded. They have their beliefs, and they won’t even open their minds to what we believe.
SMASH: They weren’t interested in dialogue?
P.D.: Exactly.
Mason: The majority of ‘em, ninety-nine percent of ‘em, didn’t even look us in the eye. Wouldn’t even turn and acknowledge our presence.
P.D.: Yeah, they wouldn’t even turn around and look at us.
SMASH: Do you feel that they’re being sincere when they say they support the troops?
P.D.: I don’t feel they are.
Mason: One or two, maybe. But the majority, no. Not at all. I mean, if you really support the troops, as we said before, you’d turn around and talk to us. Acknowledge us. You know, all these people here (indicates the pro-troops rally), we walked out, and they said "thank you," you know, "how are you feeling?" Those guys (indicates Code Pink) say, "Don’t talk to them." That guy (indicates Bruce) literally came out and said, "Don’t talk to them."
Is this what Code Pink calls "supporting the troops?"
Much more, including audio, at the link.
Interesting read. Sorry the soldiers had to see that sh*t.
Code Pinko should stay behind their own closed doors.
Interesting read. Sorry the soldiers had to see that sh*t.
Ping
I read this piece three times and don't have a clue what it says.
Audio file 1 (My conversation with Bruce Wolf of Code Pink)
Audio file 2 (Two wounded soldiers discussing their treatment by Bruce Wolf and Code Pink outside Walter Reed National Military Medical Center).
Maybe you are not up to speed on the Walter Reed Army Medical Center Friday night Freep After Action reports. One is posted here every week with photos and descriptions of what happened the previous Friday night.
Citizen SMASH, also writes of his interactions with the Pinkos, and adds audio links. His narrative above is totally explicit to those of us in the DC Chapter who travel to Walter Reed as often as we can, and look forward to the reports here on FR.
Condensed version: Code Pink claims to care about the soldiers, and this encounter is proof otherwise.
Keep up the good work SMASH! You are doing a service to your country by showing these people for who they really are.
Not very supportive in my view.
While I certainly agree with how you feel, a guy smacking a chick in the teeth ain't too cool.
[Mr] T
Union thug.
The "official" Walter Reed AAR is not yet up. Looking forward to more good reading and pictures.
[Mr] T
They're not all chicks. Plenty of America-hatin' smackable duffuses (dufii?) among them. However, if you ever meet Gail Murphy you might reconsider.
Code Pinko gave thousands of dollars to the enemy in Fallujah. Tehy're like the Fred Phelps crowd. What they want is more dead Americans.
In a later conversation with P.D. and Mason they asked me what the heck their signs saying "Support the Troops.....Not the War" are supposed to mean.
They very emphatically stated, "You CANNOT support the Troops without supporting what we do, which is fighting the war!"
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