Fair and Balanced: Victory Parades and Peace Protests
Some returning troops get a parade in Oceanside (near San Diego) while a handfull of protesters in Brimingham, AL do their thing.
Matt's Chat
I think that the parade was a really good idea. Those troops that are coming home deserve every bit of our thanks and appreciation. I'm sure that the men and women of the Marine Corps who was welcomed home with such a show of support are grateful. Especially after what they are hearing on the news. It would be very easy for our troops to think that the majority of Americans have abandoned them, but that couldn't be further from the truth. Most Americans are quite proud of the job that our troops and leaders have done.The Birmingham ralley story is one that I find most interesting. The author manages to quote an 18 year old college freshman, her 14 year old sister and their mother (who compared the "horrors in Iraq to the worst atrocities since Hitler's Germany" - I'd really like to know what rock this woman was under during Rwanda, Kosovo, and most recently Liberia) as well as four other adults who's views ranged from unoriginal ("if at first you don't succeed - lie, lie, lie") to the absurd (one woman has a son in the US Army who joined up for "health insurance [but n]ow is he is kicking down doors of Iraqi homes looking for terrorists." And you are protesting this? What the ^&*# ??? I thank God for all of our troops getting it done in Iraq and Afghanistan and the rest of the world.) There was at least one guy in Birmingham who gets it...Mark Brooks of Birmingham, AL.
Mark's Remarks
Thank goodness for the people in San Diego. Our soldiers are being demoralized, but not by anything they are doing in Iraq. They are being demoralized by the left and their toadies in the media. All that is reported is the negative, when Matt has shown that if we go simply by a body count, as liberals seem to want to do (one even suggested showing caskets on TV), then we should pull out of most cities. Has anyone thought to ask what the Iraqi body count is? How many terrorists we have rooted out and/or killed? Of course not, because it is all about pandering to the hearts of the American people.These protesters, remember, have the right to do what they are doing. However, one would think they could reason a bit before doing so. Of course not, they are liberal, and they are angry, and that is all that matters to them, or they have sipped the Kool-Aid of what the liberals are selling. What they are doing is providing Aid and Comfort to the Enemy. That is right. Terrorists are looking at America and seeing all this divisiveness and growing more bolder. Why do you think the attacks have escalated recently? These protesters, instead of being so loud and obnoxious and tacky, they should instead be writing their representatives, and not providing such a loud and public display. The terrorists and others will think we are not united and not ready to fight them everywhere.
People, we took the fight to the terrorists and evildoers before they could come back over here. However, if these easily duped people who were protesting continue, then we will probably see more terror attacks on our soldiers, then we will pull out, and then the terror attacks will resume at home. So, in the free exercise of their rights, they are endangering America and her troops, and demoralizing them all the same. The ACLU and the like must be proud. It is liberals, not the administration who will Vietnamize this war.
