Ours is still a country that allows you and I to disagree without either of us fearing persecution or execution. Few nations exist on the planet that allow that freedom.

So, are you saying that if the policy would have been to stay the course in Afghanistan and concentrate solely on killing or capturing bin Laden, Sadam Hussein would have decided to take the first sixteen United Nations resolutions seriously, and there would have been no need for the seventeenth, or the subsequent invasion?
…Somehow I find that difficult to believe, but that really isn’t the point now, is it?
We are now engaged, in spite of the reasons why or whether we agree or disagree with them.

Our Nation now has two options: Win, or retreat. My preference is to win and not repeat the mistake of abandoning the Iraqi people as we abandoned the Cambodian and South Vietnamese people.

If the message that was clearly sent by the American electorate was to cut and run, the Democrats would have offered legislation to defund the war, instead of wasting seven weeks of a Congressional session debating a “NON-BINDING resolution” which is no more than a political statement.

I think I’ll continue to put more stock in my sources of “spin” than your sources of “spin”.

Cheers,
Steve Trulove

“If JTG would check the statistics from real polls (the ones that aren’t funded by G. Soros and associates) then JTG would know that 60-70% of Americans believe it would be a catastrophic mistake to leave Iraq before it’s government is capable of protecting it’s borders and culture. Fully 70-80% of Americans want to pursue winning the war as opposed to setting a schedule to leave, without regard for conditions on the ground. JTG would probably also learn that Soros is a “self-proclaimed” Socialist, and that support for A.N.S.W.E.R. comes from a broad assortment of Communist and Socialist organizations. …Perhaps it’s time for JTG to “grow up”, (…or at least, wise up).”

I’ve read a dozen accounts of this anti-war protest and the great pro-American counter protest, and was amused to read JTG’s rant and realize how perfectly JTG has epitomized the contrast between these two groups that was consistently pointed out in the articles and after action reports.

I’m always taken aback by the haste and consistency with which people claiming to be members of VVAW resort to hateful, vitriolic attacks on anyone who doesn’t share their dogma, and by their propensity to engage in mindless name-calling and profanity as though it strengthened their flawed arguments.

If JTG would check the statistics from real polls (the ones that aren’t funded by G. Soros and associates) then JTG would know that 60-70% of Americans believe it would be a catastrophic mistake to leave Iraq before it’s government is capable of protecting it’s borders and culture. Fully 70-80% of Americans want to pursue winning the war as opposed to setting a schedule to leave, without regard for conditions on the ground. JTG would probably also learn that Soros is a “self-proclaimed” Socialist, and that support for A.N.S.W.E.R. comes from a broad assortment of Communist and Socialist organizations. …Perhaps it’s time for JTG to “grow up”, (…or at least, wise up).

Is JTG a Vietnam Vet? I, of course, have no way of knowing for sure, but reading JTG’s diatribe leaves me with considerable doubt. John F. Kerry is a Vietnam Vet, after all, in spite of his treasonous activities in ’73. John Murtha is also a vet, in spite of his continued seditious activities in Congress, so it is without prejudice that I can believe that JTG is just plain wrong, whether a Vietnam Vet or not.

I’d remind JTG that the United States of America is indeed NOT a democracy, but a representative republic. If we were a democracy, Al Gore would have become President in 2000, and JTG’s wishes would have come true. No meaningful action would likely have been taken against a sworn enemy that attacked us at least five times without a meaningful response during Gore’s Vice Presidency, prior to September 11, 2001.

I’d also point out that JTG’s assessment of the war in Vietnam is grossly inaccurate, in that the war was not “lost” by the United States of America, it was forfeited by the actions of a Democrat Congress to defund it. Even though elements of Saloth Sar’s Khmer Rouge (as well as Osama bin Laden) have since pointed out that the Tet Offensive was failing against our troops, the Democrat Congress willingly snatched a defeat from the jaws of victory for perceived personal gains in temporary political advantage. Their action was with total disregard for the predictable consequence of the tragic massacre of over 2.5 million Cambodian and South Vietnamese men, women and children. So, “no” JTG,“we” are not all losers. The Democrat Congress of that era, as well as those who gave aid and comfort to the enemy as you are doing now, have earned that title exclusively for them selves. The current Democrat Congress seems determined to repeat that same lack of judgement in the war on terror, …and JTG has obviously chosen of free will to join with them in owning the Iraq war loss and title of “looser”, should they be successful in their defunding attempts.

Although my first response to JTG’s comments was anger, I now realize that JTG has provided a valuable service to all that read his rant and ultimately to the cause of exposing the anti-American left as they are.

I find it appropriate that JTG signed his rant as he did because it truly is weak, dishonest and shameful.

God Bless our Troops!
Confusion to the Enemy!
(both foreign and domestic!)

Steve Trulove

simply put, you lie.

I was there. VVAW. Rough estimate, 3-1 anti-war vs. pro-war.

Post some photos that show both groups … that show GOE en masse, instead of this family-outing shots you seem to want to claim show “thousands”.

On the overall issue – 60-70% (and grfowing) of the adult United states populace has concluded that this war is a m istyake, a fiasco, a failure, a tragedy. The mythy of the ’silent majority” died int he 70’s along with the Nixon administration.

It’s time to pull the thumbs of your foam-rubber “we’re number one!” fingers out of your ignorant [edited]and face reality , you pathetic chicken-hawks. War isn’t a “300″ CGI production. Grow up and stop lobbying for mroe detah, for wasting more american lives to save the face of the Republican Party and promolgate your silly hippie-commie-pinko-traitor myths about anyone who disagrees with you.

“SUPPORT the troops”? You don’t know how (or why). Try “SAVE THE TROOPS” for a change. Bring them home NOW.

You ARE losers, you know. Do you understand that at all? This country (all of us, mind you – this IS a demmocracy, after all, where everbody, regardless of which way they vote, bears their portion of responsibilty for all national actions – LOST its war against Vietnam’s unification. Now you sad, wounded, deluded fools are trying to re-write history so as to convince yourselves it was really some perfidous “stab in the back” that caused that (after all America NEVER loses, right?). This is the way Luddendorff and Hitler sold THAT myth to the Germans in the 1920’s. This sort of Big Lie is straight out of that playbook. You must be so proud you learned Joseph Goebbel’s lessons so well.

Promoiting the extension of this lost and wrongful war you do your country and its honored dead more than a dis-service. You essentially betray it. And this to what purpose? to satisfy your own corrupt egos.

Shameful.

Weak, dishonest and shameful.
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edited for profanity rather than for stupidity

Like those Vietnam Veterans before me, when I came home 09/66 I was greeted by the same caliber of individual that I saw protesting Saturday. I believe they were carrying some of the same signs. This time it was different. I just wish my brother Dennis, also a Marine, could have been there to witness the changing of the guard.

Now we need to keep the Eagles flying and ensure that never again do the Moveon.org, Answer and Code Pink dictate our countries policy.. Semper Fi

A shipmate from USS FIRST SHIP was one of the many veterans standing tall on Saturday, 3/17/2007 in Washington, DC.
He sent this memento. The picture was taken early Saturday morning at the Lincoln Memorial:

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It took 40 years but I can say I’ve seen it.

FreeRepublic, Michelle Malkin, AR15.com and other Milblogs were stating the 3:1 ratio or 30,000 to 10,000.

Another caller on the Mark Levin show reports that the anti-war people were recirculating so as to give the appearance of larger numbers. So that may account for the different ratio numbers given.