Originally posted by Nash
you can't parlay that into a national hate-fest the likes of the Vietnam era,
On Memorial Day anti-war activists splashed gallons of red paint on a veterans monument in Putnam County. Wednesday they spray-painted a peace symbol on a monument honoring Walter Panas High School grads serving in Iraq. Do they expect us to believe that they oppose the war but support the troops even while painting over the names of those troops and desecrating the monument erected in their honor?
In March, four anti-war protesters vandalized an upstate Army recruiting center and poured blood on the office's American flag. That same month, anti-war protesters in White Plains demonstrated their support for the troops by asking a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom, how many kids he killed in Iraq and by calling him a Nazi and a sucker for enlisting in the military. The White Plains crew also demonstrated their undying support of the military by passing out fliers that encouraged young people not to join it. Clearly those assembled that day were troop supporters all.
from erternalvigelance.comAs I stood there in my Marine Corps Dress Blue uniform, there before me stood numerous kids running around in sloppily dressed and ill-fitted helmets and military fatigues with utter disrespect for the symbols and uniforms of the U.S. military. The walls were covered in camouflaged netting and the stage was covered with approximately twenty white, life-sized cut-out patterns in the shape of dead women and children, all of which were splattered in red-paint to depict human blood. Onstage, children were kneeling and weeping while dressed in ill-fitted Arabic headdress with white-faced masks similarly covered in red paint to depict human blood. At a podium, children were reading a monologue of how U.S. troops were killing civilians and shooting at women and children. Moreover, several grown adults were standing on stage in bright orange jump-suits, with black bags on and off their heads, some bound and tied, and some banging symbols and gongs in a crude depiction of what I believe were their efforts to depict victims of the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse episode.
Within the auditorium, numerous adults appeared to have been supervising this behavior and children were literally running amok. What is going on in your classrooms and auditoriums? Who supervised this program? Who are these grown adults dressed as prisoners and performing such the attics on the stage of our public schools? Since when has it become Seattle School Board policy to take an official anti-troops position and declare returning combat veterans from Iraq such as myself as killers of innocent women and children as if this war were some sick sport. As an Iraq war veteran I am outraged by what I witnessed going on at West Seattle High School!
Maj. Terry Thomas
The claim "we support the troops
but" is a sham. Its a lie. These "aintwar" groups such as ANSWER, MoveOn, and others do
NOT support the troops, rather they are savvy enough to know that a repeat of the VN era stunts will get them pilloried quickly.
We should call them on it, and expose them for what they are.
