There were a few tense moments;
[…] including an encounter involving Joshua Sparling, 25, who was on crutches and who said he was a corporal with the 82nd Airborne Division and lost his right leg below the knee in Ramadi, Iraq. Mr. Sparling spoke at a smaller rally held earlier in the day at the United States Navy Memorial, and voiced his support for the administration’s policies in Iraq.
Later, as antiwar protesters passed where he and his group were standing, words were exchanged and one of the antiwar protestors spit at the ground near Mr. Sparling; he spit back.
“If they’re gonna support us, support us all the way.”
At CJunk – Open Season
Is there any lie you won’t swallow hook, line and sinker?
http://americaabroad.tpmcafe.com/blog/joseph_hughes/2007/jan/30/spitting_on_the_truth_with_an_action_alert
What’s McClelland’s problem? (I mean specifically, not generally.) It was in the New York Times, fer gawd’s sake.
A lie is a lie regardless of what media outlet publishes it, Joan.
What’s the lie to which you agree Mr. McClelland?
Remember the definition of a lie is “an intentional distortion of facts,” not “facts with which I disagree.”
Well, if that isn’t downright Freudian of me. I meant to say,
What is the lie to which you refer, Mr. McClelland?
Remember the definition of a lie is “an intentional distortion of facts,” not “facts with which I disagree.”
Robert,
You should be on your knees daily thanking this young man and all troops who sacrifice their lives to fight Islamofascism.
These boys are going to save your sorry, pathetic, yellow backside, as it is you and your ilk who will be the Muzzies first target!
You tell so many lies Robert, you wouldn’t know one if it hit you in the face. Go away!
Typical Robert drive-by shooting: Make a silly statement with no context. Drive-by again with more of the same. Escape to the Marxist slum from whence he came and don’t come back until things have quieted down.
It’s the typical tactic of the attention starved. Poor Bobby.
“A man wearing prison stripes”….”A man on 30-inch stilts”…..Jesse Jackson, Dennis J. Kucinich, Maxine Waters, Jane Fonda, Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins as keynote speakers….
Gag. Boring. Redundant. Stupid.
Leave it to the NYT’s, which has always been overwhelmed by historic events, to find this hackneyed piece of street theatre fresh. How stupid is that.
Only the NYT’s and their lefty moron subscribers would fail to notice how these shallow little pousers, always assembling with the fashionista approved protest gear, are. Typical.
Take another look at “Zak Kirkwin” and his little costume as persona in the first photo, typical, what a putz.
Spit at or near a US serviceman and you deserve a petite grandmother half of your size to slap you up one side of your weasel face and down the other.
Penny ! luv ya!
…“It’s like we never learn from the past,” ….
Not a long as sleezebag socialists like the NYT staff keep re-writing history and current events to suit their agenda.
I just love the fact that some of these idiots were water-boarding eachother. After spending the past few years bitching about what a horrible form of torture it is, they go and spend an afternoon doing it to eachother. Right. Must be really horrible if a bunch of commies and hippies are willing to volunteer to have it done to them. How stupid do you have to be to sabotage your own propaganda?
Robert McLelland’s new tag line:
**ck the news.
“A lie is a lie regardless of what media outlet publishes it, Joan.”
This has been a test of the Robert McLelland Emergency Early Warning System. This is only a test. If this had been an actual attack by Robert McLelland you would have been instructed where to go.
This should shame us all. That men & Women dying for us feel that we have let them down.
All the Old Dudes
by Jack Langer
Posted Jan 29, 2007
“A man could make a fortune selling Geritol to these people.”
Capitalist stooge that I am, that was my first reaction upon reaching the Washington Mall last Saturday to observe tens of thousands of demonstrators rally against the war in Iraq.
Expecting a healthy turnout of idealistic youths, I was surprised to find that the crowd was comprised predominantly of middle-aged ’60s throwbacks looking to recapture the glory days of the jarring folk music, campus occupations, and general social chaos that accompanied the Vietnam War. When the Raging Grannies showed up, it was hard to distinguish them from the rest of the crowd.
What a disappointment. Nothing against the old folks, but they simply can’t match the energy of a young crowd of college kids unencumbered by work responsibilities or age-related health problems. The whole rally was flat, dispirited, and even boring. I felt especially sorry for the speakers: it’s hard to rile up a crowd when so many attendees are afraid to stray too far from the porta-potties.
The languid mood was reflected in the pedestrian anti-war slogans. Speakers led the crowd in bland, rhythmless chants like “Troops! Home! Now!” and “Pull! Out! Now!,” thus showing an awkward reluctance to invoke words with more than one syllable. They couldn’t even muster the energy to launch into a refrain of the ‘ole “Hey, hey. Ho ho . . .” chant, a nice rhythmic incantation that is usually a staple of antiwar demonstrations.
Dominated by the ’60s generation as it was, it was unsurprising to see a galaxy of signs and booths invoking the sacred cure-all of nearly every 1960s radical — socialism. “Bush is the symptom, Capitalism is the disease, Socialism is the cure” blared one giant banner. “Defeat US Imperialism. Socialist revolution is the only solution” intoned a pennant by the League for the Revolutionary Party. “Defend China, North Korea, and Vietnam Against Imperialism and Capitalist Counter-Revolution!” was the motto of the Sparticist League. That last slogan I found to be one of the most offensive statements of the day — right up there with one speaker’s invocation of Maureen Dowd as an authoritative social analyst.-snip
Read the rest at….h/t to Maggies Farm.
3w.humanevents.com/article.php?id=19175
The video has message that’s universal. It applies north of the border too.
Open Season video rocks!
I love the sound of that, in the morning…
It sounds like ,… VICTORY!!!!!!
Love to see a battle of the bands at our troop base between those guys and Chretien’s Lawyer Band.
Loved it!
What a brilliant notion. Once engaged in a war, the policies and conduct of that war are impervious to criticism, lest the troops get discouraged. I wonder how the insurgents react when Bush says “we’re fighting them over there so we don’t have to fight them at home”
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IRAQI: Does he mean they’ve turned our nation into a battlefield because he can’t distinguish one Muslim from another? Saudi Arabia is that way.
I’m sure statements like that do nothing to fuel the insurgents.
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm