I walked the parade route in my town with a large sign that said ANYBODY BUT LIEBERMAN I want a real Dem in 06
on one side
On the other it said
ANTI_WAR ANTI_JOE
I walked the entire route and gave away about 100 of the "kiss Buttons".
Only a couple of People Felt what I did was inappropriate.One Said "What you're doing is disgusting.Today is a day we Honor our War dead"
I replied
"Sitting on your Butt and clapping as firetrucks pass by Honors Noone.If everyone does what you're doing more of our kids will be dead next year for nothing."
If I made a few Rush Limbaugh Fans Uncomfortable today so be it.The majority of the crowd was glad to see me and made that perfectly clear with their applause.
All who are dying in this War are dying Because of politics and cynical Politicians.
It's laughable to be told top hold our tongues by those who blindly followed George W Bush instead of opening their eyes,ears and mouths BEFORE our kids were sent into this meatgrinder.
The Anti-War crowd,Even those as farleft as Michael Moore were smarter,Better informed,and most importantly RIGHT on every point in this made up war.
We told you there were no WMD just like the UN inspectors said.
We told you the troops wouldn't be greeted as Liberators but seen as occupiers.
We told you getting in was the easy part.
We told you it would cost far more treasure than any of the numbers the Administation was putting out. and
We told you Saddamn was a bastard but he had NOTHING to do with 9/11 and going into Iraq would end in a Quagmire and now we're there.
Now the people who were right on every aspect of this stupid adventure are telling you the only way out is to leave and let the people of Iraq work it out their way and idiots like Lieberman still don't get it.
As long as the people of this country allow people Like Joe Lieberman,Who have never had skin in the game, to cheerlead for war every time that option is put on the table you'll have fresh meat for your Memorial Day Parades.
I leave you all with something from Atrios Today.
The willingness to send others off to die for a misguided war because you wet your pants after 9/11 is called "cowardice" not courage.
`The Christian who fails to use force to aid his neighbor when prudence dictates that force is the best way to render that aid is an uncharitable Christian. Hence, Christians who willingly and knowingly refuse to engage in a just war do a vicious thing: they fail to show love toward their neighbor as well as toward God. '
Some people just have no decency. ctkeith is one of those people. There is a time to fight your battles and there is a time to stand down. Today was one of those days to stand down. 363 days are not enough for you?
Standing down would have been the easy thing to do.
It wasn't and isn't OK that all those People Lined up on Main Street were allowed to be so comfortable while others kids are thousands of miles away getting their asses shot at.
Funny thing,Almost every guy in uniform today either gave me a thumbs up or took a button.
You have an absolute right to free speech. However, that doesn't mean you have to pick the most inappropriate and obnoxious times to use it. There's a time and a place for every fight.
Today we can honor and respect the dead and the survivors of this and other wars. Tomorrow, you can attack those responsible, if you want. In August and November, you can vote for change.
God damn this evil war, and those who were so eager to wage it. If their sons and daughters were wearing our uniform this war would never have happened.
That any other perspective might exist is of no relevance what so ever to you is it?
Trueblue said: God Bless your "perspective"... I only wish you were putting your own life on the line to defend it. Bloody chicken-hawks.
I have a bright, strapping 18 year old boy who wants to put off his full boat scholarship and join. He graduates high school in under a month. (Frankly I'm pointing him towards the Coast Guard (he's not going for it)- his mother is simply having a fit.)
He has several friends that are over there now and a handfull that have already returned. None of his friends that have been there view our involvement in the light you do at all. Quite the contrary.
I suspect you would have been opposed to the Civil War as well seeing as it, from a Connecticut standpoint, wasn't "our" problem.
By the way; you can look it up. Neville Chamberlain was wrong.
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This is probably not an appropriate place for a debate about the war itself.
We've had the war debate. We keep having it. I'd rather not have it here.
At this point, there's not much left to debate, anyway. Vote in August and November.
Bruce,
Thats your choice.I chose differently.
I walked the parade route in my town with a large sign that said
ANYBODY BUT LIEBERMAN
I want a real Dem in 06
on one side
On the other it said
ANTI_WAR ANTI_JOE
I walked the entire route and gave away about 100 of the "kiss Buttons".
Only a couple of People Felt what I did was inappropriate.One Said "What you're doing is disgusting.Today is a day we Honor our War dead"
I replied
"Sitting on your Butt and clapping as firetrucks pass by Honors Noone.If everyone does what you're doing more of our kids will be dead next year for nothing."
If I made a few Rush Limbaugh Fans Uncomfortable today so be it.The majority of the crowd was glad to see me and made that perfectly clear with their applause.
All who are dying in this War are dying Because of politics and cynical Politicians.
It's laughable to be told top hold our tongues by those who blindly followed George W Bush instead of opening their eyes,ears and mouths BEFORE our kids were sent into this meatgrinder.
The Anti-War crowd,Even those as farleft as Michael Moore were smarter,Better informed,and most importantly RIGHT on every point in this made up war.
We told you there were no WMD just like the UN inspectors said.
We told you the troops wouldn't be greeted as Liberators but seen as occupiers.
We told you getting in was the easy part.
We told you it would cost far more treasure than any of the numbers the Administation was putting out.
and
We told you Saddamn was a bastard but he had NOTHING to do with 9/11 and going into Iraq would end in a Quagmire and now we're there.
Now the people who were right on every aspect of this stupid adventure are telling you the only way out is to leave and let the people of Iraq work it out their way and idiots like Lieberman still don't get it.
As long as the people of this country allow people Like Joe Lieberman,Who have never had skin in the game, to cheerlead for war every time that option is put on the table you'll have fresh meat for your Memorial Day Parades.
I leave you all with something from Atrios Today.
The willingness to send others off to die for a misguided war because you wet your pants after 9/11 is called "cowardice" not courage.
Well Ct observer,
I suggest you stay home and off the internet if you want to not be bothered with other people expressing their rights to speech.
You have every right not to listen but none to demand others silence.
Thats what they died for.
TrueBlueCT said: This is a bad
war.
According to who.?
Here's what one theologian says: GOOD WARS by Darrell Cole
`The Christian who fails to use force to aid his neighbor when prudence dictates that force is the best way to render that aid is an uncharitable Christian. Hence, Christians who willingly and knowingly refuse to engage in a just war do a vicious thing: they fail to show love toward their neighbor as well as toward God. '
CTKeith said: You have every right not to listen but none to demand others silence.
What you did was almost as classy as protesting at a serviceman's funeral or graveside service.
Not quite though.
Some people just have no decency. ctkeith is one of those people. There is a time to fight your battles and there is a time to stand down. Today was one of those days to stand down. 363 days are not enough for you?
Standing down would have been the easy thing to do.
It wasn't and isn't OK that all those People Lined up on Main Street were allowed to be so comfortable while others kids are thousands of miles away getting their asses shot at.
Funny thing,Almost every guy in uniform today either gave me a thumbs up or took a button.
The WW2 vets all got it too.
You have an absolute right to free speech. However, that doesn't mean you have to pick the most inappropriate and obnoxious times to use it. There's a time and a place for every fight.
Today we can honor and respect the dead and the survivors of this and other wars. Tomorrow, you can attack those responsible, if you want. In August and November, you can vote for change.
TrueBlueCT said:
God damn this evil war, and those who were so eager to wage it. If their sons and daughters were wearing our uniform this war would never have happened.
That any other perspective might exist is of no relevance what so ever to you is it?
-ACR
Trueblue said: God Bless your "perspective"... I only wish you were putting your own life on the line to defend it. Bloody chicken-hawks.
I have a bright, strapping 18 year old boy who wants to put off his full boat scholarship and join. He graduates high school in under a month. (Frankly I'm pointing him towards the Coast Guard (he's not going for it)- his mother is simply having a fit.)
He has several friends that are over there now and a handfull that have already returned. None of his friends that have been there view our involvement in the light you do at all. Quite the contrary.
I suspect you would have been opposed to the Civil War as well seeing as it, from a Connecticut standpoint, wasn't "our" problem.
By the way; you can look it up.
Neville Chamberlain was wrong.
There's a great AP interview with Malloy about his childhood that's on courant.com today.
ACR,
Neville Chamberlain was wrong.
If you take your history seriously he was wrong because he appeased the last nutcase who justified Preemtive War as an excuse for their Ambitions.
one more thing,When do we FREE SAUDI ARABIA.
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