Posted on 11/05/2006 7:48:49 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
Sadly, Rangel was in the military and served in Korea. You'd never know it though, the way he talks about the troops today. He's an angry, racist person who has been in the House far too long. It's pretty pathetic when a member of Congress introduces a Bill to reinstitute the draft, and then votes against his own Bill. He's another one who claims that the military is nothing but a dumping ground for blacks and poor whites who have no education and have no other options in the job market.
Good point. She has daughters too.
Really, Dubya should have abolished Peanut Brain's legacy in that regard long ago. Reason #4157 they call the GOP "The Stupid Party".
PHOTO! Re: Democrat representative and possible future chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee (also Korean war vet) Charlie Rangel speaking at the podium at a pro-North Korea Workers World Party / Troops Out Now rally in Harlem, New York, on March 19th, 2005, the 2nd anniversary of the start of the Iraq war:
http://www.workers.org/march19/slides/14-rangel.html
The link below is to a set of photos from the same Workers World Party website (workers.org) showing commie and terrorist attorneys Lynn Steward and Ramsey Clark at the same WWP/Troops Out Now event that our old Korean war vet Charlie Rangel spoke:
http://www.workers.org/march19/index2.html
Is the Workers World Party really enemies of America? You decide:
(from the website of the Workers World Party (workers.org) :
"On July 9 (1994), Workers World Party Chairperson Sam Marcy sent the following statement to Comrade Kim Jong Il, the Central Committee of the Workers Party of Korea and the State Funeral Committee of President Kim Il Sung.":
"Dear Comrade Kim Jong Il... Comrade Kim Il Sung devoted his whole life to the Korean people's struggle for national self-determination and the international working-class struggle for socialist emancipation. With his leadership, the Korean people defeated the Japanese colonial occupation and soon after brought about the first defeat of the U.S. imperialist military machine....
Workers World Party values our close, comradely relations with the Workers Party of Korea very highly. We are proud to have known Kim Il Sung as a great leader and a comrade in the international communist movement. And it is with the most profound sense of loss that we mark his passing. Yet it is also with the greatest revolutionary optimism that we are confident that Comrade Kim Il Sung's legacy will live on with your efforts to win new victories for the Korean people.... With comradely solidarity, Sam Marcy Chairperson, Workers World Party": http://www.workers.org/marcy/cd/sam94/1994html/s940721.htm
My comments: Troops Out Now is the latest front for the Workers World Party. See Yahoo search results for "Workers World" + "Troops Out Now" : http://tinyurl.com/h397j
Here are a few not-so "anti-war" statements from the "anti-war" Workers World Party front, Troops Out Now. (clarifications within parenthesis were inserted by myself. a link to the original source is included at the end of the statements-LC) :
TROOPS OUT NOW: "It is time for the antiwar movement to acknowledge the absolute and unconditional right of the Iraqi people to resist the occupation of their country without passing judgment on their methods of resistance.(i.e., it's ok to saw the heads off of captured and bound hostages while they beg hopelessly for their lives, or to car bomb tens of freedom-seeking Iraqis at a time while they line up to join the police force or cast votes in the country's first ever free election. Even dragging school teachers out of a classroom and shooting them before the terrified eyes of their little students is cool with us. [this actually happened btw]-LC)....their statement continues... "Even the founding charter of the United Nations clearly affirms the right of an occupied people to resist by force of arms."
"We need to demand the immediate, complete and unconditional withdrawal of all U.S. occupation troops from Iraq."(what good commie doesn't want a Russian-backed Iran to gain control of Iraq?-LC)
"We must support politically, morally and organizationally members of the U.S. armed services who are resisting the war, moreover, we must encourage this resistance."
"There must no longer be any hesitation on the part of our movement regarding our support of the struggle of the Palestinian people to free themselves from occupation.(in other words, blowing up innocent civilians at restaurants and shopping malls is just fine with us-LC) As a movement we have made a huge step forward in this regard. There must be no turning back."
"We must work to facilitate the widest unity between all of the forces that are seriously organizing against the war and occupation."
All of the above statements can be found at this Troops Out Now website: http://www.troopsoutnow.org/statements/outnow.html
LC (exposing_the_left) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/exposing_the_left/ (please note: this is a read-only site. no membership requests please. but do feel free to visit the site and forward my posts and information.
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