The Ass Hat and the Class Act

If they were really interested in peace, and if they really wanted to stop the killing, then they’d go to Iraq and march against the terrorists. “Make Love-not IED’s” Even better, go to Kabul. Oh yeah, head-sawer-offers would appreciate it, respect the words of the women in pink clown costumes, and there’d be an end to head-sawin-offin. Nah, instead they rant and rave in DC where Democrats have proven they’re not gonna cut funding for troops until the troops are home.

Honestly, I feel sad for them. They’ve been so misled, so terrorized by claims of what “Bushco” would do to them that they are wigging out in the most extraordinary ways. Yeah, there are nuts in this country too, but I still think these people are misled rather than nutty-at least at the core. Misled into thinking that the liberators are the problem, and not the head-sawer-offers who are Al Queda death cult followers (btw for those late to the game, the propaganda lie that AQ in Iraq is not the same as Bin Laden’s AQ…well, that myth is now dead).

Those are my comments above. I never post anonymously. Had a little trouble with the preview function and had to repost.

I understand what Scott is saying.

It amazes me that, at this point, there are protests against us being there. If it’s simply a matter of not wanting our soldiers over in Iraq, I might be able to understand that. If it’s consideration for the Iraqi people, and what’s in their best interest, I might be sympathetic before the war.

I know plenty of good, intelligent people myself who are against our presence in Iraq. Some might be woefully misled by bad, distorted perception and information; but others, I believe, gravitate toward the information that appeals to them politically and ideologically. These are the ones who would protest ANY war, on grounds of morality. As if the absence of war is the same as having peace.

Scott: I’d hate to have the job of deciding which of the “anti-war” types were sane but misled and where were so poisoned by self hate that they blame their country for all the evil in the world.

If these people really did care so much about the innocent lives being lost in Iraq where were they when Saddam was gassing the Kurds? Where were they when the marsh Arabs habitat was destroyed? How many of them were arrested while protesting the wholesale slaughter of the Shiites and people being fed into wood chippers and babies being tossed out of upper story windows?

Saddam had an unbroken killing spree in Iraq that dwarfs all the deaths since the U.S. invasion. Where was Code Pink and the “anti-war” left when that evil was going on year after year?

I really do want to know whether the people disrupting Congressional hearings are being prosecuted. Surely their arrests are public records? Can we find out Curt? Lantos promised they would be prosecuted to the full extent of the law and yet he still admits Code Pink to these hearings knowing full well they are going to behave this way!

Democrats have given a wink and a nod to these people. They don’t have to admit people dressed like circus freaks to these hearings.

If they look like clowns (ah, remember the good ole days when Dr King made sure everyone marched in their Sunday best and walked to jail with honor, pride, and peace?)

If they act like clowns (I’ve been scanning the web for years now looking for pics of Ghandi with a child’s birthday party crown on his head, or party glasses, or blood on his hands…haven’t found one yet)

If they demand for something to happen when it’s already happening…

Yeah, I guess those are the people that are clowns. Really, it’s not too hard to pic out of a crowd those who are intelligent, caring, moral, and merely misled vs those who go to protests with the idea that it’s a festival or a parade, and the one thing festivals and parades have in common?

clowns

Echoing Scott, an article from Eli Lake (excerpt):

The People. United. Can in fact be defeated. Well not exactly, but this must be what America’s anti-war movement is thinking as Congress and the president iron out the funding for the war with no danger of the Democrats attaching a withdrawal date to the bill. The Dems don’t have the votes.

It’s enough to deflate the spirits of our nation’s most hardened pacifists. Take Medea Benjamin, the leader of Code Pink, an association of mainly senior citizen women who dress up and shout slogans at Congressional war hearings. In an interview in the current issue of Mother Jones, Ms. Benjamin said that she doubted that the troops would be withdrawn even within a year’s time. “Well, I think it’s kind of silly to talk about it because it’s just not going to happen,” she said. Code Pink now is hoping to end the war by the end of 2008.

It’s an extraordinary statement for the leader of an organization that produced a YouTube ad last month featuring women in pink jockey outfits riding Democratic leaders of Congress like they were horses. The narrator tells the viewer: “With your help we can dominate Congress with peacemakers and finally end this illegal, immoral and unconstitutional occupation.” Apparently the plan for peacemaker domination has run into some snags.

As the Hill newspaper reported on October 19, the legislative representative of American Against Escalation in Iraq, John Bruhns, a former Army Sergeant who participated in the 2003 invasion, has left the organization. “I feel I’ve done all I can,” he told the newspaper. “I can’t continue to attack members of Congress to pass legislation that isn’t going to get passed.”

Mr. Bruhns had worked on something the anti-war movement called “Iraq Summer,” an initiative aimed at getting 50 Republicans to break with the president on the war. That goal seemed plausible in July when the former chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, John Warner, was threatening to vote with Democrats on withdrawal dates. But in September Mr. Warner said that arguing for some troops to come home by Christmas barely changed the ayes and nays in the senate.

The anti-war movement has not even managed to get any of the big three Democrats running for president to embrace their goal of an immediate withdrawal. Gone are John Edwards’ rhetorical excesses of the spring, promising not to leave even Marines to guard the new American embassy in Baghdad.

Today Mr. Edwards, like Senators Obama and Clinton, concede that in their administration there will still be some troops in Iraq in 2009, probably between 50,000 and 70,000. Also, the Democratic party’s professional agitators must know that Mrs. Clinton will sprout wings and talons and screech for the blood of every Iranian terrorist as soon as she receives her party’s nomination, faster than you can say, “Sistah Souljah.”

I saw the Eli Lake article at the NY Sun. Good piece.

I really do want to find out if these Code Pink circus freaks are being prosecuted. Surely there is a public record we can access.