Nice Crowd. I had to leave early because I had my eight year old daughter with me and some teenaged girl kept screaming F--- BUSH right behind us on our side of the street.
Sorry to ditch y'all. Next time I come solo.
Posted on 01/27/2007 1:27:10 PM PST by Jim Robinson
Edited on 01/27/2007 2:17:21 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Tens of thousands of demonstrators from across the country converged on the Mall in Washington today to urge the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq as President Bush is proposing to send more troops in an effort to stabilize the country.
The enthusiastic crowd was generally good natured and orderly, waving hundreds of colorful placards and chanting slogans such as "Not another day, not another dollar" and "This is what democracy looks like."
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Across the street, however, was a counter-protest, staged by the Washington chapter of the conservative organization FreeRepublic.com. Those protesters, who organizers said feared that the antiwar march would hurt the U.S. anti-terror efforts, yelled and sported signs, such as one that read, "Go to hell traitors. You dishonor our dead on hallowed ground."
At least one veteran from the Iraq war tried to bridge the divide between the groups. Cpl. Joshua Sparling, 25, from Port Huron, Mich., who lost his right leg below the knee in an 2005 explosion in Ramadi, spoke to both groups.
Near the end of the CodePink rally, Sparling, a patient at Walter Reed Army Medical Hospital who used crutches to walk, went to the microphone and told the protesters that they are entitled to the right to demonstrate and must fight for what they believe in. But he reminded them that the situation is dire for many Iraqis and U.S. troops there believe that they are fighting to help provide a better option for the people of Iraq. He was rewarded with general applause, although a few feint boos could be heard.
When he finished, he walked across the street and spoke with the FreeRepublic group also.
Just interested. Did either one of these people ever serve America? If not, they are only an embarrassment.
I saw that on the news tonight. (I'm in Norway right now with my fiance's family).
My future father-in-law was like, it's terrible, no one wants the US in iraq, not even citizens.
He's a very nice man, a very good man, and quite honestly, if he was in America he'd be considered a conservative. So I didn't say it in a mean way...I just said,
"Yeah, the news here is as bad as it is back home. They don't show you the protests with just as many people against things like abortion, or supporting the troops being in Iraq. They only show the things they want you to see."
It's horrible how one-sided it is here. People are being manipulated by the media. If we lose in Iraq, it won't be because of the military, or because of Bush. It'll be because of how people are being deceived into discouragement.
Funny how the BSM floats the numbers they want. Nearly ten years ago now I was at "Stand in the Gap", a gathering of nearly a million Christian men on the national mall. The only coverage it got showed 3 black-clad pagans who showed up in opposition.
I just posted the report from the Chicago Tribune -- the numbers estimated to have been at the DC rally vary depending upon which article you read.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-iraq-protest,1,2501190.story?coll=chi-news-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true
I'm going to have to get a bumper sticker with that on it.
If the guys in the foreground is the back of the rally .. THEY BARELY HAVE 1000 (if that many - my row count puts it at about 600+) - LET ALONE TEN'S OF THOUSANDS.
As usual .. the WP is carrying the water for the dems because it fits the WP agenda.
Nice Crowd. I had to leave early because I had my eight year old daughter with me and some teenaged girl kept screaming F--- BUSH right behind us on our side of the street.
Sorry to ditch y'all. Next time I come solo.
WHERE are the American flags???
Typical Dems. I bet our freepers never wore any masks!
Then like lemmings the mindless little nitwits turn out to chant their jingoistic claptrap, which is substituted for true analysis of what our nation faces.Feeling good and fulfilled, many with some quick scores of D.C. cocaine,and/or a quick piece of tail, they wend their way home feeling all warm and fuzzy inside, without a clue as to what they have actually done to our soldiers in Iraq.
I think they should round them all up and send them to Iraq, and let them walk the line there for one single day.
Ha ha funny you should mention it...a beautiful young lady on our side today was wearing a saddam mask and holding a sign which read "I'm dead and liberal chicks still love me!"
Coop and a host of others got together and sent him and other wounded boxes and boxes of gifts. Good for Josh for walking into the lions den.
The B@st@rd that sent the letter.
The letter he sent Josh
Not from where I was standing. They were an angry, profane, hateful lot. Not all, of course, but enough. You should have seen the writing on some of their "colorful" signs.
Are these people the enemy? I thought that our muslim enemies covered their face like cowards.
Hear, here. Read my #67 above. Sorry I didn't get to meet you tday.
Next time! Do you go to Walter Reed on Fridays?
This verbage was obviously taken right of a press release.
I was there and met Josh personally. Had lunch with him too. He is truly a great American. It was great to see the lefties try to tell him that if he loves the country he should enlist. Duh!!
There was a good crowd, but when they marched, they kept walking in a circle back and forth along the route. From the Free Republic staging area, I spotted some people making more than one pass by us. Some of those folks you just can't forget. So that's how they get the press to inflate their numbers.
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