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Quote by: Zeebadee Now that's a real "total crock of crap!". I served on active duty from 1966 to 1975, during another period of war and protests, and it bothered me not at all that citizens were exercising their constitutional right to protest while I was serving. Why? Simple, it was pointed out to me by someone who understood what was happening that that was exactly what we were fighting for, to protect and defend our free way of life.

Looks like you and I served during the same period, give or take a few years.........and held similar views regarding so-called "peace" protestors. Obviously, my position has been revised, for I no longer feel that my service exempts me from considering the morale and safety of others who currently risk their necks in hostile territory--just because I might disagree with the reasons for their deployment.

I cannont compare my risk of a temporarily "lost" freedom on one issue among many to the potential loss of even one soldier's life due to my strengthening the resolve of his enemy by my unrestricted, selfish carping and partisan blathering while safe here at home. There will be time enough for that when the fightin's done.

I feel it is my duty as a citizen to always put our servicemen's and our country's interests above my own, just as my service in the military was a civic duty, though it cost me dearly.

If you, or our GI's really believe in this war, and yet are so easily swayed from your beliefs by a few protests, then I really don't think your convictions amount to much.

Who said anything about MY being swayed? I'm talking about the ENEMY taking "comfort" and the troops losing morale from a seeming lack of resolve on the part of our population as a whole.......which is exactly what the commie pinko's (scroll down to "who is behind all of this") are seeking........they want us to view Iraq and Afghanistan as Vietnam redux.

If you doubt the enemy is listening, then scroll two thirds of the way down this article. (bold mine)

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"Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the al Qaeda chief in Iraq, sent a thank you note to the Dick Durbins and Ted Kennedys of Congress in a message to his followers and sympathizers on July 5. According to an unreleased translation read to me by a Defense Department source, Zarqawi's message exhorted his terrorists to greater effort, because, Zarqawi said, it is very clear that America was being defeated in Iraq. Zarqawi's proof? His message said that the proof that America is losing is that some American congressmen are saying just that."

I've paid my dues, I'll use my constitutional rights any way I want, so you can take your "traitor" title and shove it.

Someday you may come to regret that selfish position, as I have my own past indiscretion.........as for the "shove it"---bite me, brother.

As for the MSM being so hard on Bush, that's also a crock. This administration took full media advantage of Tillman's press status, and even embellished and invented the circumstances of his death, yet at the same time won't allow any photo's of returning maimed and dead ordinary GI's in order to "protect their privacy". While we had nightly news and pictures of the casualties in Vietnam, the loss of 6 GI's yesterday hardly even made the news. If anything, the MSM is giving Bush a pass, he's been allowed to fight a pretty much sterile war.

WTF is a "sterile" war? Is that some more lefty bullshit terminology, like "pro-choice" and "progressive"?
Just like the bullshit that the MSM is giving Bush a pass.
Your claim is all the more agregious, given that the only party/candidate apparently worthy of a "pass" by the MSM, are the Dems, specifically Sen. Clinton.
To whit:
With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

Saturday, Aug. 13, 2005 12:44 p.m. EDT
Media Doing Hillary's Dirty Work

Meetings with 9/11 families: According to liberal media mogul and one-time Clinton defender Steve Brill, Hillary Clinton personally lied to him about meeting with dozens of 9/11 victim families. In a 2003 radio interview, Brill said Mrs. Clinton had her office supply him with documentation to prove the meetings took place. After checking with the families themselves, however, "None of it turned out to be true," Brill said. "They gave me documents and phone calls and things like that which just plain never happened." Media coverage of Hillary's outrageous 9/11 lie? A single mention on the New York Post's gossip page. **** SNIP **** Hillary forced to apologize to police: Next May will mark the sixth anniversary of the only instance in U.S. history where a sitting first lady was compelled to issue a written apology to an entire police department. But if you don't remember the story, don't worry. Not a single mainstream outlet covered it. Press coverage of Hillary's historic police apology? Zilch [except for NewsMax]. Imagine Mrs. Pirro getting a pass after acknowledging responsibility for supporters who spit on cops. **** SNIP **** Bashing Bush in the Arab press: The unwritten rule of American politics used to be that foreign policy differences ended at the water's edge. But in May 2004, Hillary Clinton buried that venerable tradition once and for all when she gave an interview to an Arab press outlet charging that President Bush's incompetent prosecution of the Iraq War was endangering both U.S. soldiers and innocent Iraqis. Here's how the Iranian newspaper Mehr covered her comments: "Referring to the Bush Administration policies as arrogant and insolent, the wife of the former U.S. president further added that Bush is not willing to admit his mistakes in Iraq, the grave mistakes that have endangered the lives of both the Iraqi people and the U.S. servicemen alike." Bush's mistakes, she added, "have also threatened peace and stability in the region." Clinton's outburst was ballyhooed by news outlets from Islamabad to Cairo. But the American press decided it wasn't newsworthy that the remarks of a future presidential candidate criticizing the commander in chief during a time of war were being heralded in enemy capitals. They reported not a word. Goon squads: Longtime Clinton advance man Patrick Halley recently revealed that he had an unorthodox way of handling protesters who turned up at Hillary's events: He hired "goon squads" to intimidate and harass hecklers - and beat them up, if necessary. "Less genteel souls sometimes referred to them as goon squads," wrote Halley in his 2003 memoir, "On the Road with Hillary." "But I objected to that term. I was proud of the fact that not one of them had ever been arrested." Press interest in the fact that a sitting first lady relied upon "goon squads" to keep a lid on her critics? Absolutely zero - beyond a single mention on the New York Post's gossip page.

Carry on.