Anti-war Protests Anger U.S. Troops Inside Kuwait

The Detroit News | Tuesday, February 18, 2003 | M.E. Sprengelmeyer

[BOBTHENAILER]

I know you troops read this site, so God Bless and Godspeed. Kick ass and get home safe and soon.

Very well said.

[MeekOneGOP]

Thanks for the post and ping. One ping coming up !

[MeekOneGOP]

Anti-war Protests Anger U.S. Troops Inside Kuwait

Excerpt:

U.S. troops amassed in the Kuwaiti desert couldn’t avoid news of anti-war protests that swept the globe over the weekend, and it is making some angry, defensive, fired-up and anxious.

They see scattered news reports of opposition to a possible war against Iraq, but the hardest-hitting bulletins come in phone calls home to worried wives and loved ones, said Sgt. 1st Class Victor Oravec, 41, of Fort Knox, Ky., of the U.S. Army’s 3-7 Cavalry.

“They’re saying, ‘Why are we over here when everyone’s over here saying we shouldn’t be?’” Oravec said.

“They hear it. They bring it up to me, and I squash it by keeping them busy, reminding them why they’re here,” Oravec said, just before leading his tank maintenance unit in an all-night training exercise across the Kuwaiti desert.

Many of the soldiers who might be called to fight against Iraq were too young to remember the emotional protests that marked the end of the Vietnam War. Many had not even been born.

Still, some say they take the anti-war protests personally – questioning the jobs they do and their boss, President Bush.

“They get down,” said Oravec, a veteran of the 1991 war against Iraq. “That’s when I come around, try to get them work to do. That’s the only thing I can think of to keep their minds off home and what their wives are telling them.”

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[BOBTHENAILER]

"YOU'RE ALL A BUNCH OF PARASITIC MAGGOTS, UNWORTHY OF YOUR FREEDOM !!" Barks Freeper SENTINEL (USMC) through his megaphone who was standing alone in a group of 300 peaceniks Saturday in Anchorage.

Absolutely wonderful job SENTINEL. Great message for all on this thread.

[TheDon]

They may protest, but NOT IN MY NAME!

[MeekOneGOP]

Hey ! On a related thread, Steyn continues to be on a roll !...

Mark Steyn: The curtain will come down on the peaceniks

Excerpt:

Hitler's problem was that he was over-invested in ideology. He'd invented a universal theory -- the wickedness of the international Jewish conspiracy -- and he persisted in fitting every square peg of cold hard reality into that theory's round hole. Thus, Churchill must be a "puppet of Jewry." As a general rule, when it's reality versus delusion, bet on reality. That held true in the Cold War. Moral equivalists like Harold Pinter insisted that America and the Soviet Union were both equally bad. But the traffic across the Berlin Wall was all one way. East German guards were not unduly overworked trying to keep people from getting in. The Eastern bloc collapsed because it was a lie, and the alternative wasn't.

Well, the Soviet Union's gone now so Pinter no longer has to observe the pox-on-both-their-houses niceties. Addressing the demonstrators on Saturday, he declared that the U.S. is "a country run by a bunch of criminals ... with Tony Blair as a hired Christian thug."

Got that? It's not Saddam who's the thug, it's Tony. It's not the Baathist killers from Tikrit who are the bunch of criminals, it's the Republican Party. It's not the million-man murderer of Baghdad who's the new Hitler, it's George W. Bush. It's not the Iraqi one-party state with its government-controlled media that "crushes dissent," it's the White House. It's not the Wahhabis who are the fundamentalists, it's Bush, Blair and the other Christians. It's not Osama bin Laden who's the terrorist, it's American foreign policy. Supporting the continued enslavement of the Iraqi people is "pacifist," but it's "racist" for America to disagree with the UN, even though it's Colin Powell and Condi Rice doing the disagreeing and the fellows they're disagreeing with are a bunch of white guys from Europe.

[nutmeg]

Enough is enough. Please pass this little gem on to all your ping lists. Time to bury the anti-Americans once and for all.

You said it, Bob. Mobilizing my ping lists now...

[BOBTHENAILER]

Hey maybe we should weed them out. Stalin might be a good example to follow.

New around here are you? You supporting the troops as hard as you are the Street Freaks?

[nutmeg]

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[MamaLucci]

It means that even if you are against this war because you
have a political agenda (anti-President Bush, pro-global,
leftist ideology ) or you are just too stupid to see
why Saddam has got to go, you should protest with your vote and your money,
NOT with anti-American communist front organizations (A.N.S.W.E.R.),
whose main goals are to undermine the current right-of-center
U.S. government as well as demoralizing our armed forces.

[nutmeg]

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[ppaul]

Sounds like it's time to send in the hardhats, again.....

Chicago, 1968.
Look closely. What flags were the America-haters flying then?

The aftermath of the 1968 Chicago DemocRAT Convention riot...

I remember 1969 in Chicago.
If you're old enough to recall, until then, nobody - except for some hippies and Peter Fonda wannabes - wore American flags on their clothes or hats. That was a no-no. Anyway, at the height of the protests in front of the Federal Courthouse where the trial of the "Chicago 7" (Abbie Hoffman, Renny Davis, Tom Hayden, Jerry Rubin, Bobby Seale, Lee Weiner, John Froines) was underway, the construction workers downtown - the "hardhats" - had a belly-full of seeing NVA flags carried around and hearing the favorite chant of the protesters, "Ho-Ho-Ho Chi Minh, NLF is gonna win!" One day, the "hardhats" put American flag stickers on their hardhats and at noon, thousands upon thousands of union and non-union iron workers, sheet metal workers, carpenters, cement finishers, plumbers, electricians, painters, laborers, etc. all walked off their jobs and confronted the unwashed rabble of anti-American protesters and pounded lumps on them! They routed the scum out of downtown and made sure they didn't come back. Ever since then, wearing the American flag on a hardhat has been de riguer, as the whole country took a shine to wearing the flag. The "hardhats" gained a reputation and during that time were feared by hippie and Yippie scum. The hardhats brought the peace to Chicago. I remember. My dad was one of them.

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[BOBTHENAILER]

Another Steyn gem. Thanks to you, I always try to read his stuff.

[EverOnward]

One woman stood there crying, with no one at her side....

"I just got one son back from Afghanistan...and now the other one has left for Iraq!"

It's this kind of woman -- it's sons like hers that have made this nation great. We will never know their names nor their sacrifices and heartaches. But I'm praying God does and will reward them and bless them as they have blessed us.

[BOBTHENAILER]

You said it, Bob. Mobilizing my ping lists now...

Thank you.

[hoosiermama]

Thanks for the information. Your father deserves your pride.

[Grampa Dave]

"We support the troops but not GW and the War!" is a new mantra of the left wingers.

Their left wing fishwraps stated mouthing this mantra last week.

Their focus groups show that if they attack our military like they did the 1960'70's, the American people will be all over them.

So they mouth their new Mantra, "We support the troops in their illegal war under an illegal and evil president who wants this war just for oil."

It will not work this time. They are too transparent to most Americans. We know that they hate America and our troops!

[nutmeg]

"YOU'RE ALL A BUNCH OF PARASITIC MAGGOTS, UNWORTHY OF YOUR FREEDOM !!" Barks Freeper SENTINEL (USMC) through his megaphone who was standing alone in a group of 300 peaceniks Saturday in Anchorage.

GREAT photo and post (#120)! You're right in the belly of the (unwashed) beast!

And THANK YOU for your service to our country.

[nutmeg]

Check out post #120