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

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

[nocommies]

we need to have a PRO US ATTACK ON IRAQ demonstration for these folks!

[dalebert]

Bump for US troops

[SLB]

I spent about 8 years in the Kentucky National Guard, my first five years were in a Field Artillery Brigade. They were mobilized today. My family will be at the armory to see them off!

[Angelwood]

Your two cents is priceless. I support our troops!

[Jerez2]

They don't give our counter-protest any airtime, and they don't give Bush any airtime either. We CAN'T get our message out via the lamestream media. That's why the Web and radio are so important.

[Jerez2]

"Freedom of speech is one of this coutnry's bedrock principles. It is vital that all interested parties be able to present their arguments to the fullest. It is only then, that we can be confident that the government is making the right decision...."

The problem is only ONE side gets any coverage. That is all we are asking. Bush is treated with utter disrespect. His first MAJOR Iraq speech (made I believe at VMI last fall) was not carried by the networks. And forget about truthful coverage of our side's opinions.

Even their coverage of the leftists is not a fair representation of what's going on out there. It is NOT all nice suburban folks, first-timers, and concerned grannies. There are some borderline sickos out there - and YES, some that go over the line into treason and sedition. "Assasinate Bush" was particularly egregious. How can the American public form a true opinion of these people if this information is withheld from them?

[nutmeg]

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[HiJinx]

Well said...thank you for your service, and may God Bless you.

[Alberta's Child]

They are Islamic Jihad supporters and accessories in the 9/11 terrorist attack, which make them equally guilty.

I happened to catch a few minutes of Matt Drudge's radio show on the way home Sunday night in the snow, and he had Pat Buchanan on for a short conversation.

Buchanan, despite his long-standing opposition to war in Iraq for a number of reasons, wanted nothing to do with any of the "protesters" around the world.

"I took a look at some video clips from one of those things, Matt," he said, "And three of the first four signs I saw said: "FREE MUMIA". Who the hell are these people anyway?"

LOL!

[Victoria Delsoul]

Oh well, they do just fine between the shallow mentality of people like Mumia. LOL.

[Alberta's Child]

They had an interesting incident up in Calgary in 2000 during the annual meeting of the World Pertroleum Congress. The standard group of anti-capitalist malcontents descended on the city to protest "globalization," "global warming," etc. Because it was so soon after one of the big protests that turned ugly (Seattle, I think), security was very tight.

Canadian immigration authorities at Calgary Airport somehow figured out that two of the Americans landing there a few days before the event began had been permanently banished from Canada after a similar demonstration in Toronto or Montreal a few years ago. The two guys were arrested, and to keep them from causing trouble in Calgary the police simply shackled them both to a radiator in one of the airport offices and kept them there for four days until the WPC was over. Then they just put them on a flight back to the U.S.

The story generated a lot of outrage, but Calgary was pretty quiet for those four days. In fact, things went so well that the host country for the next conference (Brazil) wanted to hire the Calgary organizers to run things down in Brazil in 2001.

[FreeReign]

It is the same left wing political groups trying to undermine the center and center-right drift of international politics. An exceptional success in Iraq will damage left wing power for decades (and they know it.)

Bush to lefties: Here's plenty of rope -- go hang yourself!

[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you so much! I support our troops, too!!! Hugs!

[Alamo-Girl]

Bush to lefties: Here's plenty of rope -- go hang yourself!

LOLOL! That has been his strategery in Texas and with Congress so far. Works great, they never see him coming.

[Victoria Delsoul]

The two guys were arrested, and to keep them from causing trouble in Calgary the police simply shackled them both to a radiator in one of the airport offices and kept them there for four days until the WPC was over. Then they just put them on a flight back to the U.S.

LOL!!!!!! I think Calgary is the only conservative city in Canada.

Good thinking, hahahahaha.

[kstewskis]

I posted this on another thread, I'll do it here. And anyone with loved ones oversees, please be sure they get this message, to remind them why they are there, and how grateful we are to them:

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The Soldier

I want you to close your eyes and picture in your mind the soldier at Valley Forge, as he holds his musket in his bloody hands.

He stands barefoot in the snow, starved from lack of food, wounded from months of battle and emotionally scarred from the eternity away from his family surrounded by nothing but death and carnage of war.

He stands tough, with fire in his eyes and victory on his breath. He looks at us now in anger and disgust and tells us this...

I gave you a birthright of freedom born in the Constitution and now your children graduate too illiterate to read it. I fought in the snow barefoot to give you the freedom to vote and you stay at home because it rains.

I left my family destitute to give you the freedom of speech and you remain silent on critical issues, because it might be bad for business.

I orphaned my children to give you a government to serve you and it has stolen democracy from the people.

It's the soldier not the reporter who gives you the freedom of the press.

It's the soldier not the poet who gives you the freedom of speech.

It's the soldier not the campus organizer who allows you to demonstrate.

It's the soldier who salutes the flag, serves the flag, whose coffin is draped with the flag that allows the protester to burn the flag.

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Let's keep these soldiers in our prayers, and do everything we can to encourage them.

[FreeReign]

That has been his strategery in Texas and with Congress so far. Works great, they never see him coming.

They will eventually learn what you have known for a long time. :)

[FreeReign]

It's the soldier not the poet who gives you the freedom of speech.

It was great to see those poets disinvited from the W.H.. Some of them actually thought that they had an unalienable right to speak there.

[Jen]

I hope our troops realize that the vast majority of us are very thankful for the sacrifices they make...

This article torqued me off so much that I called the Public Affairs Office at Ft. McPherson, which is near me. I talked to two people there about doing something to help get the word out that there still are sane people in America who support our troops, no matter what they've heard from home or seen on TV or the Internet. I emailed the editor of the post newspaper links to this article and the Infinite FReep rallies. If nothing else, two more soldiers know today that FReepers support them and our country!

[CARepubGal]

Guys: How can we counter thesmelly unwashed piles of steaming rotten Hillary! that are trying to replay the hell of the 60's?