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PROTESTORS COME OUT FOR SADDAM Anti War Or Anti Bush?
BlueStarBase.org ^ | February 20, 2003 | Barbara Stanley

Posted on 02/20/2003 12:17:40 PM PST by EveningStar

She watched from the train car as her ailing toddler was handed through the window to the Iraqi soldiers below. She thought her sick and dying child would be cared for at the most and buried at the least. Next she looked, the pack of dogs that hovered near the pit of dead just moments before, ran away with the child's limbs in their bloody mouths. Just one story from the wonderful peoples' paradise of Iraq, where the land blooms in the desert with the stink of death.

The Anti-American protestors, abundant around the world last week and soon to be heard from again and again, are out in full force as their commie handlers take us down memory lane to the sixties. We all remember what happened in Vietnam and there is no mistaking the 'student' marches here stateside contributed to the ending of America's involvement and the entrance of the communist created killing fields that followed. There were some places you couldn't walk at all for the bones, skulls and broken bodies buried in the mud.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: barbarastanley; bluestarbaseorg; bush; carter; clinton; donahue; iraq; protestors; saddamhussein; war

1 posted on 02/20/2003 12:17:41 PM PST by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar
Is there no end to the ignorant and uninformed? They could care less about dead Americans and care about whatever it takes to advance their own agenda while others have died to protect their right to even voice their opinions. Sick is all I can say.
2 posted on 02/20/2003 12:23:58 PM PST by abnegation (They're not just anti-Bush, they are just plain anti-American.)
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To: EveningStar
People don't understand because they don't take it personal. They don't put themselves in that mother's shoes. They don't put themselves in the Towers, or the airliners. This happened to other people not them. To these simpletons GWB made all this up to fight his daddy's war. I take it personal because it could have been me. It still could be me next time or someone I love and care about. If the military would take a 49 year old veteran back, I'd quit my job and go. This is personal.
3 posted on 02/20/2003 12:40:47 PM PST by Conspiracy Guy (RW&B)
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To: abnegation
I believe that it is Anti-Bush, and I believe that Bill and Hillary Clinton and Terry McAuliff are behind it.
4 posted on 02/20/2003 12:44:05 PM PST by Sangria
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To: EveningStar
So we are supposed to be sympathec to Saddam, the rapist, thuggist, murdering, WMD producing, UN resolution violating fiend because of this drivel?

The war protestors owe an appology to those who died in the twin towers and the pentagon. They owe an appology to David the Reporter who was executed by the terrorists in Pakistan. If they wish to make themselves human shields for Saddam, I say let them.

5 posted on 02/20/2003 12:44:53 PM PST by sr4402
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To: sr4402; Flurry
SHAME ON YOU AMERICAN-HATING LIBERALS

Sep 11 2002


Tony Parsons

 

ONE year ago, the world witnessed a unique kind of broadcasting - the mass murder of thousands, live on television.

As a lesson in the pitiless cruelty of the human race, September 11 was up there with Pol Pot's mountain of skulls in Cambodia, or the skeletal bodies stacked like garbage in the Nazi concentration camps.

An unspeakable act so cruel, so calculated and so utterly merciless that surely the world could agree on one thing - nobody deserves this fate.

Surely there could be consensus: the victims were truly innocent, the perpetrators truly evil.

But to the world's eternal shame, 9/11 is increasingly seen as America's comeuppance.

Incredibly, anti-Americanism has increased over the last year.

There has always been a simmering resentment to the USA in this country - too loud, too rich, too full of themselves and so much happier than Europeans - but it has become an epidemic.

And it seems incredible to me. More than that, it turns my stomach.

America is this country's greatest friend and our staunchest ally. We are bonded to the US by culture, language and blood.

A little over half a century ago, around half a million Americans died for our freedoms, as well as their own. Have we forgotten so soon?

And exactly a year ago, thousands of ordinary men, women and children - not just Americans, but from dozens of countries - were butchered by a small group of religious fanatics. Are we so quick to betray them?

What touched the heart about those who died in the twin towers and on the planes was that we recognised them. Young fathers and mothers, somebody's son and somebody's daughter, husbands and wives. And children. Some unborn.

And these people brought it on themselves? And their nation is to blame for their meticulously planned slaughter?

These days you don't have to be some dust-encrusted nut job in Kabul or Karachi or Finsbury Park to see America as the Great Satan.

The anti-American alliance is made up of self-loathing liberals who blame the Americans for every ill in the Third World, and conservatives suffering from power-envy, bitter that the world's only superpower can do what it likes without having to ask permission.

The truth is that America has behaved with enormous restraint since September 11.

Remember, remember.

Remember the gut-wrenching tapes of weeping men phoning their wives to say, "I love you," before they were burned alive. Remember those people leaping to their deaths from the top of burning skyscrapers.

Remember the hundreds of firemen buried alive. Remember the smiling face of that beautiful little girl who was on one of the planes with her mum. Remember, remember - and realise that America has never retaliated for 9/11 in anything like the way it could have.

So a few al-Qaeda tourists got locked without a trial in Camp X-ray? Pass the Kleenex.

So some Afghan wedding receptions were shot up after they merrily fired their semi-automatics in a sky full of American planes? A shame, but maybe next time they should stick to confetti.

AMERICA could have turned a large chunk of the world into a parking lot. That it didn't is a sign of strength.

American voices are already being raised against attacking Iraq - that's what a democracy is for. How many in the Islamic world will have a minute's silence for the slaughtered innocents of 9/11? How many Islamic leaders will have the guts to say that the mass murder of 9/11 was an abomination?

When the news of 9/11 broke on the West Bank, those freedom-loving Palestinians were dancing in the street. America watched all of that - and didn't push the button. We should thank the stars that America is the most powerful nation in the world. I still find it incredible that 9/11 did not provoke all-out war. Not a "war on terrorism". A real war.

The fundamentalist dudes are talking about "opening the gates of hell", if America attacks Iraq. Well, America could have opened the gates of hell like you wouldn't believe.

The US is the most militarily powerful nation that ever strode the face of the earth.

The campaign in Afghanistan may have been less than perfect and the planned war on Iraq may be misconceived.

But don't blame America for not bringing peace and light to these wretched countries. How many democracies are there in the Middle East, or in the Muslim world? You can count them on the fingers of one hand - assuming you haven't had any chopped off for minor shoplifting.

I love America, yet America is hated. I guess that makes me Bush's poodle. But I would rather be a dog in New York City than a Prince in Riyadh. Above all, America is hated because it is what every country wants to be - rich, free, strong, open, optimistic.

Not ground down by the past, or religion, or some caste system. America is the best friend this country ever had and we should start remembering that.

Or do you really think the USA is the root of all evil? Tell it to the loved ones of the men and women who leaped to their death from the burning towers.

Tell it to the nursing mothers whose husbands died on one of the hijacked planes, or were ripped apart in a collapsing skyscraper.

And tell it to the hundreds of young widows whose husbands worked for the New York Fire Department. To our shame, George Bush gets a worse press than Saddam Hussein.

Once we were told that Saddam gassed the Kurds, tortured his own people and set up rape-camps in Kuwait. Now we are told he likes Quality Street. Save me the orange centre, oh mighty one!

Remember, remember, September 11. One of the greatest atrocities in human history was committed against America.

No, do more than remember. Never forget.

 

6 posted on 02/20/2003 12:46:26 PM PST by Luis Gonzalez (The Ever So Humble Banana Republican)
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To: Luis Gonzalez
bttt for later reading
7 posted on 02/20/2003 12:54:48 PM PST by cgk
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To: Luis Gonzalez
Remember, remember, September 11. One of the greatest atrocities in human history was committed against America.

And according to some, it was our fault. We asked for it.

8 posted on 02/20/2003 12:59:26 PM PST by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar
This article had a profound impact on me, it's good to know that somewhere across the sea, there are people like this writer.
9 posted on 02/20/2003 1:01:20 PM PST by Luis Gonzalez (The Ever So Humble Banana Republican)
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To: EveningStar
I would love to see all these "pro-Saddam" / "anti-Bush" (Anti-America) protestors would go to Iraq...Baghdad & Takreet (sp?) and stay there and live there and love Saddam and rub up on him and be right there by his side and on or about the bunkers and palaces that we are going to vaporize (and so will they) and thus no more muss and no more fuss.
10 posted on 02/20/2003 1:03:17 PM PST by KriegerGeist
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To: EveningStar
Remember the way-back-when hippies/zippies/commies waving these:

around like crazy?

Some one should take many Iraqi flags to the next one of these demonstrations. Hand 'em out for free. They will wave them to their hearts desire. Then photograph the seditious morons to show where their loyalties reside. It would help to have Saddam posters also available. Would make for great copy on the evening news, and it would be an honest portrayal of where they are coming from.

11 posted on 02/20/2003 1:19:20 PM PST by AmericanInTokyo (Heading to the store to turn in my unused Perrier for a refund; gonna' buy British scones instead)
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To: Flurry
You got it. Leftists are the classic example of living in another world, of being "split" from reality, of "displacement". Leftists are a psychiatric Field Day.
12 posted on 02/20/2003 1:57:54 PM PST by JoJo Gunn (Help control the Leftist population. Have them spayed or neutered....)
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To: Luis Gonzalez
Wow.... this was beautiful...
13 posted on 02/20/2003 2:42:59 PM PST by Tamzee (There are 10 types of people... those who read binary, and those who don't.)
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To: EveningStar
That subhuman, anti-American filth is afraid that the cost of prosecuting this war is going to deplete their "entitlement funds", you know, those taxpayer dollars that are taken from our paychecks and given to those welfare abusing slugs, crack heads, and college flunk-outs, who never seem to have jobs, which is why they have all the time in the world to "protest".
14 posted on 02/20/2003 2:49:51 PM PST by roamincadillac
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To: Tamsey
"I love America, yet America is hated. I guess that makes me Bush's poodle. But I would rather be a dog in New York City than a Prince in Riyadh."

There are Americans who wouldn't say anything like that.

15 posted on 02/20/2003 3:28:15 PM PST by Luis Gonzalez (The Ever So Humble Banana Republican)
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To: roamincadillac
Unfortunately, not all these people are the dregs of society. All too many of them are completely upstanding people. These misguided folks bring credence to this movement.
16 posted on 02/21/2003 7:53:44 AM PST by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar
Bump
17 posted on 02/21/2003 8:02:30 AM PST by Celtjew Libertarian (Haiku and "Unintended Consquences" just don't mix.)
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To: EveningStar
I believe that you are mistaken when you call these middle class people "misguided". They arn't misguided at all! They are abject cowards! They are self absorbed and indulgent in their own affairs, and don't want to get involved! They are quite content to allow and excuse evil so long as they themselves are not affected directly! Yes Friends, they are the ugly Americans! They hide behind statements like "It will only lead to more violence". OR;" Inocent people will be killed!" These are only excuses used to mask their detachment with their countrymen and country. They aren't concerned compasionate people! They are Frauds, dressed up to look respectable! True Compasion stands up in the face of death or evil and takes rapid, selfless action. Like the Firemen who whent into the Burning Towers, or the Passengers who fought the highjackers. These individuals will forever be remembered for their acts of compasion, bravery, and concern for their Brother Americans. How many more attacks on inocent Isrealies and Americans will it take before these so called enlightned, compasionate, self-centered people wake up to reality ? It depends on how many it takes before they themselves are actually hurt or killed. But at that,they will still be too afraid to do anything, and probably demand that someone else do something!
18 posted on 02/21/2003 10:10:43 AM PST by Hillarys nightmare
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