Rally draws war-weary

[unhappycamper]

Rally draws war-weary
By Marie Szaniszlo
Sunday, October 28, 2007


When Michael Blake joined the military at the age of 18 in July 2001, he knew he was joining the “good-guy Army.”

But as the months passed after he was deployed to Iraq two years later, he said, anti-American sentiment there grew.

Most of the homes he and his unit raided turned out to belong to innocent people, Blake, 24, said. And then one day, his unit opened fire on a suspicious van, killing a 14-year-old boy inside.

“One of my friends can’t even be around kids anymore,” he said yesterday, his desert fatigues standing out among the garb worn by thousands of anti-war protesters who gathered on the Common. “You don’t send soldiers who are trained to kill to rebuild a country. We’re not police. We’re soldiers.”

Despite the rain, the gathering was perhaps the largest demonstration against the war in New England to date, drawing people from throughout the region.

“The big question in Iraq is who’s going to be the last person to die for a failed policy and an illegal war,” said Suren Moodliar of the Boston-based Stop the Wars Coalition.


Rest of article at: http://bostonherald.com/news/regional/general/view.bg?articleid=1040941



uhc comment: Of course, this is the Boston Herald we're talking about. I'm surprised they mentioned the rally. In the comments section for the article:


What Bollocks!

Never have I seen such a scroungy bunch of unwashed losers, some even pretending to be soldiers, than at yesterday's rally. I'm not saying Americans dont have the right to express their displeasure with this very screwed up war, but why do they always have to be dirty, gray-haired misfits with foul smelling, ill fitting clothing and bad teeth to boot? You may note that I say the handful of people wearing military clothing are pretenders, and I stand by that because no one who served with any distinction would look like the losers stumbling down the road yesterday. A truly sad showing and sad expression of Americans' expressing their rights. I guess what I'm saying is if you invested as much time in your hygeine as well as how you carry yourself maybe people would listen to what you were shrieking into your megaphone. JMHO



For what it's worth dickhead, I took a shower and brushed my teeth yesterday.

[Mojorabbit]

1. In the orlando sentinel

blog the freepers are out in force with the same kind of comments. Their report of the event was pitiful. They did not even mention that Mike Gravel nor Corrine Brown spoke.

[jonnyblitz]

3. at the D.C. event I attended in September many of the pro-war

counter protestors on the sidelines were wearing surgical masks (like Michael Jackson does) to imply we anti-war types were diseased and nasty.

[immoderate]

2. The blog poster has no idea how many homeless are war vets.

Delusional.

--IMM

[unhappycamper]

4. Right around 300,000 homeless vets in this country.

About 1/2 of them are from the Viet Nam war.