Reservist says protesters are breaking faith

Minneapolis Star Tribune ^ | 09-29-05 | Katherine Kersten

[TheRobb7]

I don' know if anyone else has this posted, but it contains comments from a Marine who was stationed in Iraq. H e tells of the effect the antiwar (bowel)movement is having on the troops.

This jives with what my nephew said to me before returning to his unit in South Bagdad.

"Cindy Sheehan made big news at the antiwar rally in Washington last weekend. Cameras clicked as graying Vietnam-era biggies -- Joan Baez, Jesse Jackson -- relived their glory days. Seven busloads of Minnesotans joined them, drawn from groups such as the DFL Party and Women Against Military Madness.

--snip--

"When I got back from Iraq, I was disappointed -- astounded, really -- to read the news. The media was saying it's all a failure, while we saw successes around us every day."

[TheRobb7]

How about a little morale-booster, gentlemen?

[RoadTest]

This is so true. On September 12th, 2001, everybody got on board President Bush's committment to stamp out terrorism. Remember "UNITED WE STAND"? Number two, everybody agreed to a regime change in Iraq, including the Kennedy and Clinton contingents, who said so at the time.

Subsequently, people like them and their fellow travellers have reneged and backed out and turned coat against this pact. The job is not finished and they are quitting.

So, at best I have to conclude that they are either weak-kneed and trembling cowards, or, at worst, traitors and turncoats.

Either way, they are unreliable, and if one of them gets elected president, I have to wonder about those who put them in office. I think, I hope the American electorate is smarter than that.

[NaughtiusMaximus]

First of all I would like to thank you for the morale booster (better than viagra in the morning).

Next I would like to add that domestic traitors are a greater danger to America than any foreign terrorists ever spawned.

Finally, I would like to remind all patriotic Americans to learn from the lesson of Vietnam, tell the troops who stabbed them in the back while they were fighting, identify all "Peace Warriors" and make sure in every way possible that their lives get steered down roads of misery and failure today and into the future.

[ExpatGator]

WOW, that payload storage strap is struggling mightily.

Oh yeah, the protesters suck, heh heh.

[PGalt]

So, at best I have to conclude that they are either weak-kneed and trembling cowards, or, at worst, traitors and turncoats.

Next I would like to add that domestic traitors are a greater danger to America than any foreign terrorists ever spawned.

Worth repeating.

[Beckwith]

They're not anti-war protestors. They are anti-American protestors.

And fully half the speakers were Muslims.

What are these people doing at an anti-war rally?

[L98Fiero]

"Next I would like to add that domestic traitors are a greater danger to America than any foreign terrorists ever spawned."

Bears repeating, my FRiend. The real danger lies within that fact.

[UpInArms]

Can you spell sedition? Let's not have a repeat of Vietnam. Arrest Fonda and her ilk. We are at war.

[yoe]

[snip]Vold's view is 180 degrees different from the protesters'. For years, he says, America took a passive approach to extremist threats. We learned the hard way that this emboldened terrorists and ultimately led to Sept. 11. Abandoning our mission in Iraq now, he says, would be both ill-advised and dangerous.

[snip]Vold knows the painful cost of aborting a mission midstream. He was in Somalia in early 1994 when America turned tail. "We abandoned the Somali people because we took 18 casualties in October 1993," he said. "It was a shameful act." That same year, he sat in frustration on a troop ship off Kenya as hundreds of thousands of people were hacked to death in Rwanda. After the first Gulf War, he says, we left the Shiites to a bloody fate. "In Iraq, we're going to stay the course against the terrorists and give the people a chance at freedom and a representative government."

It would be an interesting exercise to see just one platoon of battle hardened GIs brought back and turned lose to educate Sheehan and her anti-American followers. Perhaps those GIs could in some way turn the protesters into adults.

Oh well, I can dream can't I............

[Just A Nobody]

Thank you for the link. Great stuff!

[chgomac]

From the Marine's article:
"When I got back from Iraq, I was disappointed -- astounded, really -- to read the news. The media was saying it's all a failure, while we saw successes around us every day."

The MSM has a curious definition of "success". Seems to me they won't do stories on Iraq because they know what they will find.....specifically, Iraqis do want freedom, the going is tough and victories come in incremental segments....but they are happening. They know the good stories would far outnumber the bad. Our troops and the Iraqi troops are performing heroically. But the media seem to feel they would be biased toward conservative leaders if they balance the sad war stories with uplifting ones!

Contrast those stories on any WOT "failures" (a few misfits at a prison or a slow down in training Iraqi forces) with their stories on the "hero NO policemen" of hurricane Katrina. As facts emerge about widespread corruption and/or non-existent NO police on the payroll, the MSM ignores or plays down the rampant corruption because the leaders in LA are liberal. Instead, they give us "balance" by pointing out stories of the police who did their duty and truly were heroes of the hurricane.

The message is clear. Hold conservative leaders accountable for anything remotely negative without any perspective or balance but do give balance and positive spin when liberal leader's problems are in the news.

[YepYep]

Oh well, I can dream, can't I?

YES, and that is a wonderful vision of a possibility. Though I fear we will always have short-sighted liberals who forget the great danger we are in from jihad if we do not continue to be proactive in stopping the terrorists and changing their systems.

Soldiers, families, and Americans, remember that the huge bulk of America is behind you!

[Paul_Denton]

Next I would like to add that domestic traitors are a greater danger to America than any foreign terrorists ever spawned.

Worth repeating.

[Wombat101]

Pacifism, as a political philosophy, suffers from an inherant weakness: you cannot espouse pacifism as a workable system of government without realizing that all forms of government are propped up by coercion backed by the threat of force.

In this regard, pacifism is more of an affectation and a state of hedonistic laziness rather than workable political philosophy.

The main problem with pacifists, as Orwell pointed out, is that they are usually people for whom society seems to have no use, and so they feel no responsibility to defend or protect the society that allows them to exist in safety. To them, physical courage is a barbarian instinct.
It is the philospohy of those who have never been and never expect to be in a position of power or responsibility.

[freema]

Thanks for posting this.