Got some real "anti-war=unpatriotic" Kool-Aid drinkers here:

[bbernardini]

http://www.topix.com/forum/city/downingtown-pa/TP4GQPTMIG49RLM0G

Seriously, these people are nuts.

[gabeana]

1. I went to the link

looked at the comments, I like how comment poster BBB was going after one of the "patritic" commenters

I wonder if it's someone from DU

[bbernardini]

5. This guy has a pretty bizarre perspective:

PLEASE NOTE: Everything below this in quotes WAS NOT SAID BY ME. I can't emphasize that enough, people. :)

"Everyone has a right to express themselves through public protest and discussion. While I may find some protesters opinion to be loathsome, I fully support their right to offend me, and my right to offend them. This goes for people on both sides of the Iraq War debate.

That said, so far as this issue is concerned I largely agree with the authors comments about war protesters. I've witnessed many anti and pro war rallies. I've never met someone at a pro-war rally who did not seem genuinely grateful for the hard work our military does.

In contrast, anti-war rallies frequently have attendees who truly do no support the troops; people who consider the members of our military to be war criminals and consider Iraqi terrorists who kill more of their countrymen then ours to be freedom fighters worthy of praise. Many, if not most anti-war activists don't share these views at all. Unfortunately the vocal minority does hold them, and they are all too happy to show a true lack of patriotism. Even more unfortunate is the frequent failure of mainstream war protesters to reject the radical fringe of the movement.

There is nothing unpatriotic about trying to end a war you don't believe your country should be fighting. There is something powerfully unpatriotic about disparaging our countrymen in battle and gleefully wishing for their defeat. Until the unlikely day that the anti-war movement rids itself of such people, it will always been colored by its anti-military members."

[Juche]

2. LOL

"Ah, yes, because flags and stickers on your car are the only way to show what a patriot you are."

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2006/10/24/EDG6PKE0761.DTL

"Somehow back at home, support for the soldiers meant having a 5-year-old kindergartener scribble a picture with crayons and send it overseas, or slapping bumper stickers on cars, or lobbying Congress for an extra pad in a helmet. It's interesting that a soldier on his third or fourth tour should care about a drawing from a 5-year-old; or a faded sticker on a car as his friends die around him; or an extra pad in a helmet, as if it will protect him when an IED throws his vehicle 50 feet into the air as his body comes apart and his skin melts to the seat."

[I work for workers]

3. Where is the link to the actual story?

I keep going in circles and getting to the comments page without knowing what is being discussed.

EDIT: Never mind, I found it.

[bbernardini]

4. Yeah, there's a bit of bias in the original story...

The anti-war folks have been there for ages. The pro-war folks just started showing up recently (in comparison), harassing the peace movement folks.

[90-percent]

6. ahhhh

That was cathartic writing post #12.

For what it's worth...

-90% Jimmy

[90-percent]

7. MY post over there

I have an uncanny knack for ending all threads on all internets!




90-percent
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|Report Abuse |Judge it! |#12 13 hrs ago
Support our troops does not mean keeping them there for multiple tours. Many over there are on their third or fourth tour. They keep getting sent back until they come home in a box.

But, so what. They volunteered anyway. At least that's the attitude of the chicken hawk VP that sent them over there to begin with.

At least they're sacrificing for a cause that has had a constantly changing rational. The 500,000 patriots that gave their lives for their country in WW2 were at least doing it for clear and compelling reasons.

50,000 died for a lie in Viet Nam. Amazing that people like George W Bush and Dick Cheney, who chose to avoid or skirt their military service when it was there time to show their patriotism and serve their country, are comfortable sending other people's children to their deaths for unfathomable reasons.

Isn't it plainly absurd to choose to have a war for constantly changing reasons?

By the way, it stopped being a War just a few weeks after we got there. It has more correctly been an OCCUPATION of a sovereign nation for about the last five years. It's an OCCUPATION we're waging now, not a War.

Dissent is patriotic. The founding fathers believed in dissent! This country earned it's Independence for the right to dissent against a tyrannical government!

You can't go wrong if you support the US Constitution as it stands. The President has betrayed his sworn oath to defend and protect The Constitution! This is also known as: TREASON! Our President is a traitor! At least Brittany looks like she's getting her act back together, though!

-Jim

[Beausoleil]

8. If that's the last word on the thread

Excellent! What more needs to be said!

:thumbsup: