[LovesReagan]

Unbelievable! Our men and women in uniform deserve better.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Dallas/Fort Worth Star-Telegram 8-28-05 Jack Douglas Jr.
CRAWFORD TX-
President Bush's supporters poured into Crawford by the thousands Saturday,
for the first time outnumbering war protesters led by Cindy Sheehan,
who began a vigil here three weeks ago,
demanding a personal meeting with the vacationing president
to talk about her son's death in Iraq.

Lame Stream Media : News Flash!

President Bush already met with Cindy Sheehan in June 2004 for 10 minutes.

From The Reporter, Vacaville, CA archive: Bush, Sheehans share moments.


Quit lying!!!!






Anyone who thinks Hanoi Kerry and Hanoi Jane
aren't behind the anti war crowd
needs to get a clue.

[squarebarb]

Something's got to give.

They just can't keep it up forever, this hatred of America and the military.

[XR7]

Slick Willie's and der Hildebeast's generation of PhD professors who went to college because they had student deferments during the Viet Nam War, who got their advanced degrees and tenure while their brothers were getting killed and wounded in 'Nam, are now the ruling elites encouraging today's college students to diss the Iraq war vets.

[2banana]

The Navy Cross — as in second only to the Congressional Medal of Honor. Martinez, formerly of 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, is a bona-fide American hero and the first Hispanic American since Vietnam to receive the Navy Cross. During the Battle of At Tarmiya, one of Sergeant Martinez’s fellow marines had been hit in the legs and left for dead by five terrorists holed up in an adobe garden shed. That’s when Martinez used his body to shield the dying marine from the terrorist before mounting a 20-meter frontal charge at the bunker with nothing but a depleted rifle and a grenade. With enemy bullets pinging off his gear, Martinez unpinned the grenade, slammed his body into the adobe building, and lobbed the device into the window of the structure, killing all the terrorists inside.

But as liberal professors and antiwar activists continue to wage a nationwide campaign to rid university campuses of military recruiters — in some cases going so far as to throw water bottles and scream epithets at them — it is easy to see why Sergeant Martinez would remain tight-lipped about being one of the nation’s most decorated heroes.

Indeed, as one campus newspaper reported, the rift between young veteran college students and their civilian classmates has left those who have served feeling isolated from campus life, “shunned” because of their service.

Not for nothing, but if Martinez was this brave just a few short months ago, why is he afraid of some sissified college professor...me thinks the author of this piece is going for some shock value...

[highlander_UW]

Just ask Marine sergeant Marco Martinez, a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom and a full-time psychology major at Saddleback College in Mission Viejo, Calif. “A woman on campus had apparently learned I might be a Marine. When I told her I was, she said, ‘You’re a disgusting human being, and I hope you rot in hell!’ ”

The Left has adopted the mantra that it opposes the war but supports our soldiers. Those veterans visiting campuses tell a different story

More lies from the Left exposed. What hypocrites liberals are.

[ktvaughn]

I am disgusted by this! I understand there is debate about the war, but to personally attack someone doing their duty for their country?? Even if you are totally against the war, how can you not be grateful for their brave service?? This p*isses me off to NO END!

[reagandemocrat]

Nothing changes.

My dad said when he returned from Iwo Jima, he completed his education at USC on the G.I. Bill in his dungarees, and felt antagonism from the 'professors'.

[IMAO-Podcast]

It's no surprise that in the 21st Century your average college campus is littered with lefty America-haters. We need more conservative colleges like "IMAO U":

http://www.imaopodcast.com/podcast/IMAO-Aug22.mp3 (PC speakers required to listen | work-safe conservative comedy)

People have to think for themselves and now cave in to the numerous corrupting influences all around them. Thanks for listening, Freepers. You guys are the best!

[Larry Lucido]

I went to Wayne State in Detroit in 1976. Long before I joined the military, but I was a Reagan Republican. I just told my professors and fellow students who didn't like it to "bite me." Or something like that.

[vetvetdoug]

During the 70's at the U of Tennessee we had a campus organization that was called the United Campus Veterans. We kept a record of the professors and fellow students that gave us trouble from time to time and reported them to the University Ombudsman. We had the respect of the faculty (most of them) and the administration. We also broke up Iranian protesters that were burning US Flags during the Iranian Crisis (actually the Campus police had to put all of the Iranians into protective custody because our organization had gotten together and were on our way to beat the crap out of the ragheads). The Iraq Veterans should organize and start to use the clout.

[conservativeharleyguy]

"But as liberal professors and antiwar activists continue to wage a nationwide campaign to rid university campuses of military recruiters — in some cases going so far as to throw water bottles and scream epithets at them"


Just wait until one of these "schools" figures out a way to keep "GI Bill" funded students off campus. I know...I know... But stranger things have happened.

[RexBeach]

Great post. Thanks!

I just do not understand why so many Americans think that the United States is an evil, rat-filled swamp. It is the most wonderful place on earth and I thank God that I was born and raised here.

As for the maggots in college who do not admire our troops, there are many things I could say, but none would take. I know. When are you full of piss-and vinegar, and you think you're the smartest guy in the room, it only matters what you say - and no one else. Thank God I grew out of that type of thinking. But young Americans should be grateful, in some form, to the men and women who protect them. Yeah, yeah, I know. No one asked the troops to go to war for them. Doesn't matter, the troops don't need the maggots' permission to love and serve their country.

'Nuff said.

Viva the troops!

[Orca]

Our returning Iraqi vets are experiencing, on campus, the same leftist hatred displayed against returning Vietnam vets. This is reprehensible, but to be expected since the faculties of most universities are loaded with these hippie leftovers of yesteryear.

However, I'm glad for them to be returning and engaging the enemy on another front: the college campus. Their fellow students should see that they have far more credibility than the traitorous professors who oppose them. Who is to be believed, snakes like Ward Churchill or our returning veterans?

If these veterans can be encouraged to be as bold on campus as they were in Iraq, the tide can be turned. The more of them on campus, the better.

[pabianice]

Welcome to my world, Sergeant. Semper Fi!

pabianice (Republic of Vietnam, 1970 - 1971; University of Massachusetts Graduate School of Business, 1973-1975)

[colorado tanker]

The American left truly is reenacting their behavior during Vietnam. What disgusting maggots.

[newcthem]

Unfortunately for the Leftist Idiots in our universities, a very different culture exists outside the university. During Nam, the average Americans were oblivious to the rantings of the leftists, much like the reaction to a spoiled brat throwing a tantrum in a public place.

Now, Americans see the damage done by these creeps and will not stand for it. With the advent of the Internet and talk radio, it is much easier to expose their actions to the public.

When our leftist chancellor of the local university tried to stop recruiting on the campus, enough of us non-elistist jumped on his case and brought it to the attention of our legislators, he quickly "modified" his position, but not before getting a public ass-kicking from the tax-payers and their elected representatives.

It is obvious that the leftists don't have a lot of faith in their positions when money is involved.

[OldSgt.]

Thanks for a good read. Even years after Nam, a lot of guys didn't bring up their service in country, just wanted to fit into something they never could again.

I learned it this way. Taking a US History class, the Text covered the complete period(10+ years)of Vietnam in TWO Paragraphs. I asked the Prof. in class, why he thought any text could explain the war and the profound effects it had on America in two paragraphs or why it was being ignored? The guy asked me out into the hallway, leaving the class behind. And as I remember it all these years later said something like,"your a vet, aren't you,(Ya) leave it alone, someday they'll figure out how they'll address it for history. Really pissed me off back then. Still does, now that it comes back to mind. Though I hope there isn't going to be another generation of disaffected young men. As sure as I'm still sucking air, I know it will be so. But maybe this time only by what should be their piers, and not their whole country.

[Recon Dad]

Truly disgusting. The day will come when these same people will wonder who will protect them and they will beg the Marines.
I know this attitude is not the majority attitude, thank God!

[Archangel86]

My school is different. I go to Northwestern College in St. Paul (a Christian school), and during the first chapel service we had, a man who had just gotten back from Afghanistan said something along the lines of "Praise God that myself and all the soldiers in my company got home safe."
He got a standing ovation from over 1800 students and faculty.

[marron]

I am very optimistic, because hundreds of thousands of our people will have served there before this is over, and those who survive will be home to take their places in society, on campus, in every walk of life. And I would say that a high percentage of them will be permanently innoculated against the deceit-mongers of the American press.

Most of them will vote Republican, and those who remain Democrats will change the Democratic Party.