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- puhiawa, on 10/12/2007, -14/+54Let me be the first to rip off the 'impeachment' sticker!
- AKBryant54, on 10/12/2007, -11/+37The U.S. government is based around people controlling the government and changing it, so that the common man may address what he sees wrong with the country and make it better, not see whats wrong and get out. Leaving the country because you don't like the state it's in is not only retarded, but un-American.
- thenativeraver, on 10/12/2007, -22/+47"Ever notice how Truthers have this "look" in their eyes?"
It's true! - spudnic, on 10/12/2007, -9/+34The whole point of living in a democratic nation is that you don't have to put up with things your government does that you don't like, you have the freedom to express your view, and the power to change things with your vote. That's THE founding principle the country you claim to love so much is based on.
You people drive me up the ***** wall. - leodavinci, on 10/12/2007, -9/+30@siszam
Whether his son is a Marine or not has no bearing on whether or not his view is correct or not, or makes it any less valid than yours. Having a Marine as a son doesn't make you any more or less entitled to an opinion, although I certainly would hope that parents who have children in Iraq would have more knowledge about the issues involved in Iraq than the normal civilian.
Oh, and I have friends and cousins in Iraq. - Gir53457, on 10/12/2007, -3/+24I think that was a woman.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -17/+36I liked the guy with the Che Guevera tattoo. What a ***** rebel.
- iceperson, on 10/12/2007, -20/+39@ hisameshizumaru
There was a support the troops rally in my city that had 10k plus at it. It had a few inches of print on page A13 I think. Just this past weekend a dozen wackjobs with signs got some front page print with interviews of the "participants". - siszam, on 10/12/2007, -35/+53See that's the point. In the U.S. we have the right to differing opinions. People like you haven't shut us up, removed all our rights or put us in concentration camps yet. I know you're trying but you are the enemies of freedom and the U.S. Not the mothers of soldiers who protest war. Not the young people who won't let you sacrifice them. It is not your way or the highway. If you want to live in a fascist, dictatorship YOU should leave. In fact, why don't you go to Iraq and die for your precious president.
- IslamicScience, on 10/12/2007, -5/+19ruffridir says: That's a definition of a patriot, someone who will speak up for what's right when it's not the popular view, but those are ideas that crazy liberals held, like Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington.
You mean like George Bush that has to stand his ground against corrupt liberal politicians that all voted to go to war? Until it became unpopular, then they all want to take their ball and go home? You mean like Cheney that tells the truth to a mindless hating media that would rather see him dead than Osama dead? You mean like our soldiers that fight a thankless war (because of whiners like you) and try to give the Iraqi people a chance to also dress up in bunny costumes someday and protest their leaders without getting their throats slit? Seems all you lefties have one idea..."Freedom for me, but not for thee." - hisameshizumaru, on 10/12/2007, -32/+46Actually, the counter protest is nearly always mentioned. In fact, they get disproportional covering considering the relative size of their protests.
- Tremblor, on 10/12/2007, -5/+18I love how these things quickly turn into "You hate America!' " No! YOU hate America!" (and for some reason quickly turns to Israel)
Everyone gets their opinions, Zombie showed some of the loonies at the parade, true. They weren't the majority, but they were there nonetheless. As long as he isn't pretending to be "Fair & Balanced" than I'm fine with it.
I just expect everyone who is cheering for him to shut the hell up when someone posts pro-war Coulture-esque rants about Killing "rag-heads" and calling all muslims terrorists etc.
Its only fair - unloud, on 10/12/2007, -11/+24God damn, there are a bunch of whining tards in this thread. Please, stop getting so emotionally worked up and taking things personal and instead try to provide some insightful commentary for once.
- DivisibleByZero, on 10/12/2007, -4/+17Whether you agree with the war or not, some of these people deserve to be made fun of....
- mattjumbo, on 10/12/2007, -6/+17"Reich" wing...get it? Instead of "right". Get it? Clever, huh?
Because a person who disagrees with the left is *obviously* the same as a regime that murdered six million people in cold blood.
*Exactly* the same. - randf, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13except for the surgery part, that's the *exact* description of every truther i know too!
- RadicalRon, on 10/12/2007, -16/+27"Why would a man carry a sign saying 'US out of my ovaries'?"
Methinks it's location, location, location.
Not that Freaksville is in some kind of parallel universe or anything. - fsjonsey, on 10/12/2007, -6/+17Its great watching the burned out babyboomers trying to relive their hippie days. It's not like they actually care or for that matter, know what they are protesting for, its just about trying to feel relevant again.
"Man we really hate bush. How can we express our anger to the masses?"
"I've got it! GIANT PAPER MACHE PUPPETS!" - RuffRidr, on 10/12/2007, -40/+50@MarkCiccone
OK, so you're basically saying freedom of speech as long as its the majority thats saying it? Some American you are. - Gir53457, on 10/12/2007, -4/+14I know a Truther. He lives next door to me. He had brain surgery when he was twelve. We walks around with scars where his hair should be trying to convince people 911 was an inside job.
- bluto36, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12how would you like to see that reminder of how stupid ans easily mislead you are every morning?
and i thought the Yosemite Sam tattoo was the cheesiest tattoo you could put on your arm.
/forgot Mike Tyson has the chairman Mao on his arm.... nope Che is worse - mcfairy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11lazloman ~ to all who lived there?
Except the Jews?
Why can't they have peace?
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If the Palestinians were to lay down their arms... there would be peace.
If Israel were to lay down hers... there would be no Israel. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -58/+68@MarkCiccone
Well, let me tell you. Those pictures really DO highlight the entire protest. It is quite obvious why no logical politician gives a damn what those whack-jobs think. If even half of that rally believes that helping Palestine is a good idea (and therefore forsaking Israel, one of our ONLY allies in the region), then no wonder they're so easy to discredit. Not one of those people had a legitamate complaint, and they made themselves and their condescending "goals" seem like a joke.
And I laughed. - jeep066, on 10/12/2007, -16/+26I love the irony. The left calls Bush a dictator and that we need to impeach him, but they still love to show their support for self proclaimed dictators like Chavez and Castro. I'm all about honest debate, but with people like this, so blinded by ideology, that is no longer possible.
- unloud, on 10/12/2007, -18/+28"and get out flag draggers. if you feel it is right, then why do you live here"
If you think worrying about someone dragging a piece of cloth on the ground is more important than the message behind what our country stands for then maybe you should be asking yourself that question. - IslamicScience, on 10/12/2007, -6/+15ruffridir
Make sure you tell all the people dying to get into America how terrible we are, how much they MUST hate us. You people are unhinged from any reality. If America sucks so much how come we are the only country in the world that NEEDS to build a fence to keep people out? I guess what you mean by the "world," is that the worthless French and the corrupt Russians are upset they cannot sell weapons to Saddam anymore. - BirkBum, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11There seem to be a bunch of other people using the anti-war rally to protest other things...Israel being a main one. Was protesting the war not an important enough issue?
- Charlotte_Web, on 10/12/2007, -27/+36In a related story, an anti-war protest in Portland, Oregon, two days ago burned an American flag and a US soldier in effigy. Protesters held up signs saying such things as "***** the Troops".
The story, which was submitted to Digg yesterday, never made the front page, even though it garnered over 175 diggs in the first 3 1/2 hours. The Bury Brigade must have gotten to it, but here it is for your viewing pleasure:
http://digg.com/politics/Leftists_Supporting_the_Troops - 5m0k3, on 10/12/2007, -47/+56I hate to inform you, but the side the media forgets about is the counter-protest. The silent majority, pro-troop supporters, never get as much, if any, media coverage as compared to the anti-war demonstrators.
Oh, and I love the grammatical errors on the signs. - rabidgnat, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11It's probably because the area is referred to as the Fertile Crescent
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fertile_Crescent - mcfairy, on 10/12/2007, -9/+18No hon- here is your REAL body count... right down the left hand side of the page ...
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/
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The Real 2006
'Iraq Body Count'
Iraqi civilians killed last year by ISLAMIC Terrorists
16,791
Iraqi civilians killed collaterally in incidents involving Americans
(and Islamic Terrorists)
225*
Iraqis aren't
dying from war.
They are being murdered by
Islamic terrorists.
*Source: IraqBodyCount.net (includes civilians caught in crossfire who may have been killed by the terrorists, and terrorists who may have been counted as civilians) - eth3l, on 10/12/2007, -7/+16What is wonderful about America is that as much as I disagree with these, clearly insane people, they have every right to march, and drag the flag on the ground. Becasue you know, without "IMPERIALIST!" America's freedoms, which they take advantage of on a daily basis, they would be in prison; or if they lived in Iraq under Hussein they would be decapitated, and their families would be too. That's right, if they were in thier beloved Iran, China, Communist Russia they would not have opportunity 1 to voice an opinion. they would most likely be in a death camp. You can bet your ass American military men would die trying to get that right to them
Personally I think they should all move to some country which accepts their views that Bush is a Zionist Nazi, and that American military power is bad for the world. Please, move to Iran, North Korea, etc.I'll buy the tickets.
PROTEST ON, and keep biting the hand that feed. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -16/+25They just like communism, and that's the problem. They're not capable of taking personal responsibility, so they want the government to do it. And I guess the current administration isn't police state-y enough for 'em.
- randf, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12@ nobeast
chavez popular? just like Saddam was so "popular", Stalin was so "popular", Castro is so "popular"...the list of really "popular" leaders that somehow can't be voted out of office is rather long.
Chavez thinks he's so popular that he's working on "allowing" his people to keep voting him in and relieving those "unpopular" guys in their congress of power.
yep, that's a really popular guy. he is just swell. - IslamicScience, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12Gaza is besieged by Israel? All along I thought it might be Israeli Pizza parlors, busses, marketplaces that were besiged by bomb-wearing brain-dead kids besieged by their Imams (that don't ever seem to be wearting those bomb vests.) Who knew?
- DivisibleByZero, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9@byronm.... If he said "US out of my [female designation]'s ovaries", you'd have a point....
He's not half as funny as the girls doing a conga line behind him. Cha-cha for peace! I wonder if that chick who hates gringos got in on it? - m00nstone, on 10/12/2007, -7/+15"BTW Why would a man carry a sign saying "US out of my ovaries"?"
OMFG that made me LOL. - mcfairy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9I believe the Palestinians bombs not peace policy creates more eye for an eye reactions from Israel.
And the "anti-war" movement is a joke.
(and it isn't anti-war when you continue to praise the other side- like too many on the left have done and continue to do... that crosses over into PRO-TERRORIST. Like it or not) - sloof70, on 10/12/2007, -5/+12Word up!
You are either a perfect, peace-loving, unoffensive liberal, or a damn dirty fascist. That's a fact.
You know what's funny? All these neo-liberals talk about how much they love peace and tolerate anyone, yet they are the one's disturbing downtown areas with their protests and they don't care about what anyone that's not a neo-liberal has to say. - randf, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9@ mcfairy,
you forgot anti-spelling and anti-color coordinated - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Israel has a technologically advanced market economy with substantial, though diminishing, government participation. ****** It depends on imports of crude oil,****** grains, raw materials, and military equipment. Despite limited natural resources, Israel has intensively developed its agricultural and industrial sectors over the past 20 years. Israel imports substantial quantities of grain, but is largely self-sufficient in other agricultural products. Cut diamonds, high-technology equipment, and agricultural products (fruits and vegetables) are the leading exports.
Yeah Israel's money from OIL sales is really going to dry up soon!
I think you're one of those JihadiJoes that Memri.org warned us about. Get your facts straight before you crap out of your mouth. - NeMeSiS187, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Okay I probably got in late on the comments here but I was hoping someone could clarify something for me. PLEASE don't digg me down I really want an articulate and common sense answer.
Why the hell is everyone pushing for the United States to completely withdraw troops from Iraq? Iraq is currently in a rebuilding process which has involved a lot of anti-American troops fighting with each other and with the troops. I think that leaving such an unstable region to resolve itself (Suni vs. Shia) would piss off the Iraqi citizens more than help. Fighting would escalate, "terrorist" groups and fundamentalists would move on Iraq, and more "innocent" lives would be lost through pointless fighting. When the dust settles, either Iran will re-invade Iraq or a new nation built on violence and hatred of the US would form. All this because we don't want our soldiers dying.
Let me get this straight, we want to withdraw from Iraq don't want our SOLDIERS dying. Our soldiers are the ones who carry guns and fight for the interests of democracy and peace and we don't want them dying. As much as I respect what our soldiers do all around the world I have to say, it is their JOB to fight. Warfare has never been pretty and incidentally some soldiers do end up dying. Hopefully this doesn't come off as cynical, but some of the kids I knew who joined the army just wanted a gun to shoot something, if you get hit, hey guess what, it's part of the job. However, this Second Gulf War has seen fewer casualties than many of the other major wars in American History. If you look at the numbers at http://www.icasualties.org/oif/ the total number of US soldier deaths is about 3221 total. Of course the number of injuries is in the 20,000's but due to technology these people will survive. The death count is absolutely minuscule and I'll tell you why. Many people will want to include the casualties to the Iraqi police and civilians. If we leave Iraq do you think this number will go down? I would love to see how fast the weapons and fundamentalists pour into the country killing all who oppose them. Secondly, 3221 deaths over the ENTIRE period is such a small number when you consider one city in the United States: Detroit, Michigan. According to the crime rate data found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Cities_by_Crime_Rate (I know such a reliable source right?) Detroit had a population of 900,932 in 2005. The murder rate that year was 354 per every 100,000 people. If you do the crazy differential algebra on those numbers you'll see that 354x9 = 3105 people died in Detroit in 2005. I'm pretty sure that number hasn't been curbed by much since then and if I add the homicides across this country it might surely be well over the 25,000 dead or injured list of Iraq.
So I ask again, why do we want our soldiers out of there? If we should be criticizing our president for anything it should be his domestic policies, not foreign. I'm not saying he's the best president nor the worse but he's really getting a bad rap from the new-age hippies who missed out on Vietnam and want a shot at protesting something. We're paying taxes for not only this war, but so many pointless stupid things like giving cake to prisoners in jail on a weekly basis; We're spending millions of dollars on turtle research, and I'm sure the list goes on and on. The Second Gulf War is just another agenda brought on by our government to try to bring a stable democracy to a place which has hated us since the beginning of history. Take a look at the Persian Wars, Alexander the Great's conquest of the East, the Crusades, and the Cold War. This war probably would have occurred with or without President Bush in power, I'm just wondering why Americans are so adamant on getting out of there and just letting another dictator take over where Saddam left off. Please dissect my argument and let me know :-) If I don't get an answer I'll probably try to post this comment in a newer anti-war story somewhere higher up. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -9/+16The fact that you think we're all zionists proves that you're a paranoid nutjob.
Do us all a favor. Call up your doctor and tell him you need to get back on the meds... The voices in your head are drowning out your rational thought process. - jav1231, on 10/12/2007, -12/+19You folks need to understand that a lot of these rallies have the same people in them. Many are either students, homeless, or are essentially professional protesters who are already members of some organization that do this. There is a percentage of people that come out to join in but the idea is seed the protest to prop up interest. "Wow! All these people! This must be an important issue! I should blindly join in!" It's also funny that these numbers get reported on so liberally but the Rally for America numbers were deflated. I think in Atlanta the number was reported in the few thousands while police and people on-hand reported the number in the tens of thousands. Wanna bitch about propaganda in government? Why not bitch about propaganda in media? If you're a skeptic shouldn't you be just as skeptical of your media? Guess not if your media is doing your bidding. My skepticism of the media is exactly why I support the war. I hear something totally different from them than I do from the boys coming back. Who are YOU going to believe? You say you support the troops, why don't you believe them?
- mcfairy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10After Israel is gone? On the side of Ahmadinijad are you?
Better think harder on the friends you pick.
Israel has been and will be here forever. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -13/+19So, this what the freaks do when they aren't at Burning Man.
- OsiVert, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9@MarkCiccone
In my opinion, the protest these people are doing doesn't help their cause too much. It seems that they aren't behind just one ideal, but many, many ideals that are pulled together to make a blob of a protest. They are protesting tons of different things, and since most people have different opinions about these different things it makes them seem crazy as a whole. - djackmanson, on 10/12/2007, -22/+28I liked the Iranians who were actually advocating the overthrow of the Iranian regime:
"Now here's a protest group I could half-agree with. The Iranian contingent protested against a US attack on Iran, but for regime change by the democratic resistance. Hell, if they succeeded in overthrowing the current Iranian government, I'd be all for them. 1954, 1979...2008? Let's hope."
The rest are actively supporting Iraqi fascists. Damn pseudo-left. The left is supposed to be about getting rid of dictators, not protecting them. - bovious, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8"The quickest way to end a war is to lose it." -- George Orwell
- SuckItUp, on 10/12/2007, -7/+13If only the MSM would show pictures like these...
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