Posted on 02/14/2007 12:47:21 PM PST by kristinn
The commies at International ANSWER are scrambling to cover their rears after Vietnam veterans and Freepers announced they were going to defend the Wall from desecration at the ANSWER rally in Washington, D.C. on March 17.
ANSWER made the mistake of poking a sleeping giant with a hot poker by announcing they were going to hold their so-called antiwar rally on sacred ground:
The March 17 demonstration will assemble at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial (Constitution Gardens) at 12 noon in Washington, D.C.and march to the Pentagon.
The response by veterans, military families and patriotic Americans has been ferocious. The Park Service has been deluged with phone calls complaining that the Wall was being abused by the left. The Park Service has made clear to everyone that the ANSWER rally will be held three hundred yards away from the Wall. There will be layers of snow fencing between Constitution Gardens and the Wall. Park Police will be out en masse and will not repeat the tolerance of the Capitol Police for desecration of out national monuments. (To be fair to the Capitol Police, their masters are 'Rats: Reid and Pelosi.)
ANSWER's boasting of holding a rally at the Wall has caused such a backlash that they have changed their announcement and have posted a disclaimer. Of course, they blame the D.C. Chapter (not by name, but we know, LOL!) for all the heat they're feeling. If they think it's hot now, just wait until March 17.
Here's ANSWER's, ahem, clarification titled Regarding the Vietnam Memorial:
Where we will Assemble on March 17
Tens of thousands of people will be gathering at Constitution Gardens at 12 noon near the Vietnam Memorial prior to the March on the Pentagon on Saturday, March 17. We will not be in the Vietnam Memorial and all speakers for amplified sound are turned away from the Memorial so as not to interfere with family members visiting the site. Constitution Gardens is the same location that ANSWER used for its mass anti-war rally on October 26, 2002. On March 17, 2007 we will leave Constitution Gardens and march on Constitution Ave. and then to Virginia on the way to the Pentagon.
The 58,000 U.S. soldiers who lost their lives in Vietnam and the millions of Vietnamese who were killed, died in a criminal war. The connection between Vietnam and Iraq could not be more clear. Iraq is also a criminal war of aggression. The central issue today, just as it was in 1967, is to bring the war to an end.
Thousands of veterans and military families, including those who have lost loved ones in Iraq, will be in the front ranks of the March on the Pentagon. Some tiny pro-Bush groups who support the war in Iraq, and who normally mobilize about 25 people to hold signs when massive antiwar protests take place, are now callously trying to manipulate Vietnam veterans by spreading rumors that the March on the Pentagon will defile the Vietnam Memorial. This lie should be treated with the same contempt that people have for the other lies promoted by Bush and his followers to justify an illegal war of aggression: Iraq had Weapons of Mass Destruction; Iraq was responsible for the September 11 attacks; and that the U.S. occupation would be greeted as an act of liberation by the Iraqi people. Enough lies. Enough deceit!
Well, well, well.
Just a Nobody's March 17 Resource thread is here.
Gathering of Eagles website is here.
"The 58,000 U.S. soldiers who lost their lives in Vietnam and the millions of Vietnamese who were killed, died in a criminal war. The connection between Vietnam and Iraq could not be more clear. Iraq is also a criminal war of aggression. The central issue today, just as it was in 1967, is to bring the war to an end."
Even after all these years and seeing what the communists did after they took over, the peacnik freaks still believe they were doing good. I wonder what the Vietnamese people have to say about their actions.
And the only connection between Vietnam and Iraq is the anti-American protesters cheering for our enemies, and the RAT congress doing everything they can to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
Of course ANSWER would view the war as criminal. We were beating their fellow travelers' asses off, until they pulled the funding plug....just like they are trying to do now.
I will have my cane with me, as usual. I will be in my Class A Army greens, however, and will do nothing to disgrace the uniform...something that the moonbats will not understand, but I do.
Added:
I know Vietnamese who came to this country after 1975. They call the anti-war folks, traitors, as well they should.
'Saddle Up' and be there ... ping!
"EAGLES UP !!!"
I am looking forward to being at this event !!!
Se you Friday night at the gate of Walter Reed too !
One week from today, thousands of us will be doing just that.
I hope that this will, in some miniscule measure, begin to repay the debt I owe to every individual who ever wore the Uniform of Our Nation.
I will be humbled and honored to stand among you.
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