Posted on 04/29/2006 1:59:30 PM PDT by sirchtruth
NEW YORK (AP) -- Tens of thousands of anti-war protesters marched Saturday through Manhattan to demand an immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq just hours after an American soldier died in a roadside explosion in Baghdad -- the 70th U.S. fighter killed in that country this month.
"End this war, bring the troops home," read one of the many signs lifted by marchers on a sunny afternoon three years after the war in Iraq began. The mother of a Marine killed two years ago in Iraq held a picture of her son, born in 1984 and killed 20 years later.
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It's ignorant, arrogant quotes by prix like this that will turn the MSM/dems into utter oblivion!
Keep talking...
For once there were no stickers plastered all over Manhattan regarding this event by UJP. Very little local press covered this so far.
This was attended by union goons, NYU students and the crazed antiwar extremists of NYC.
Hence, why I no longer live in Staten Island.
That's the nice thing about these "protests." They hold them, people feel good about themselves for a day and then they're over. ;)
What, exactly, did 'The Million Man March' accomplish? How about any of Code Pink's demonstrations? Have gays suddenly gotten the right to marry in all of our states due to their protest marches? And how about those MADD 'Million Mom Marches?' No more drunk drivers out there now? Feh!
If I were an angry mother who had lost her child, I'd channel my anger into a scholarship in my son's name or something like that. This feel good, wave a flag cr@p doesn't accomplish bupkiss.
BTW...was my Senator, Russ Feingold, Grand Marshall of this parade? LOL! ;)
They don't care.....all the smart New Yorkers have moved out of town.
^^^If the media was as honest as they say they are this would be the story.
A man dressed as President Bush holds a globe and shouts, "Mine, Mine," during the rally.
Where are the "Stop Jihad Now!" signs?
I guess I will post the poem here too.
Rough men
There's a character trait that's decided by fate
Comes (sadly) to many, far too faint, far too late.
They won't face the aggressor, stand up to his ire
They have not the will to fight his fire with fire.
So they bend over backwards to see all sides as fair,
Till they're faced with dragon breath fire in their hair.
Like our brethren in France, who'd know better than we,
Yet seem never to learn, seem doomed never to see.
Yes, it seems there are some who're determined by fate,
To possess not the courage to step up to the plate,
Who shrink from all threat because nothing's worth war.
But how can they know lest they've been there before?
Thank God some have courage, the will, yes, the grace,
To stand for the shirkers, stand strong in their place.
Thank God we have stalwarts who'll stand for us all,
Who will rise to the challenge at their nation's call.
The faint-hearted, who fear, whose reaction is flight,
Have no comprehension of those who will fight.
To hide their own trepidation they attempt to demean
The rough men, who defend them, as barbaric, obscene.
Yet these rough men stand ready, hard weapons to hand,
To put placaters behind them, draw a line in the sand,
To preserve for the peaceniks what they won't defend,
So their own unearned freedom won't perish, won't end.
To appeasers, rough men are coarse government tools.
To rough men, appeasers are dumb delusional fools.
Russ Vaughn
2d Bn, 327th Parachute Infantry Regiment
101st Airborne Division
Vietnam 65-66
http://www.mudvillegazette.com/archives/001904.html
Just got back from United 93. Have stopped shaking, was hyperventilating like mad. These Aholes in NY are ignorant lil pissants. Forget em. Lets Roll.
(sarc.)
Aging hippies, check.
Note the Nader 7% sign. This is from an old 2004 campaign.
Students against war, check.
LW Attention Media whores, check.
Race Baiter, union thug(MTA union), poverty pimp, check.
Cindy Sheehan's unsexy ankle? Check.
More media whores. And abortionists! Check.
Mass produced signs. These belong to Jesse jackson's Rainbow-Push corporate extortion racket.
Goofy street theater and creepy Bush masks. Check.
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