The GOE cleaned up their area when the event was over. It was very windy and stuff was blowing all over the place but we picked up our mess and put it in trash cans. You cannot draw a conclusion based upon a snapshot of one period of time.

We had quite a few people. We are a group that has older people but we have some younger ones. Many of the folks there have children fighting in the war.

We were at the stage in the morning for the rally, then we lined the route of the bad guys and then we walked down to the Capitol. At the end they ended up back at the staging area. We were only permitted for those areas. We stayed in our permitted area and followed the law. Violating their permit is why those others got arrested (they trespassed).

“The police in DC hate the anti war people because they make a mess and destroy things.”

Look at Kat’s pictures again. There’s trash strewn all over the area where the Eagle’s stage was. If they had more respect, would they not have thrown their trash in a trash can?

You’re good at making excuses for the warmongers. I guess GOE is mostly a gathering of old folks and that the young war supporters who are not enlisted didn’t bother to show up then?

do you use the phrase “sc** sucking faggot” around your mom? did you not use these words until you were 18 years old? Get off your high horse. You know damn well that some kids actually DO talk like that, as did you, probably. If Christian adults, like you, say such things, it’s probably safe to assume their kids say it also.

So I guess I was correct that the GOE people didn’t march, they mostly just heckled the anti-war protestors and then moseyed on over to the stage that the GOE organizers set up? That’s what I thought.

I also note that more than a few of these kids called me some vile names when there was a barrier but when we were ont he Capitol lawn and I approached these little cretins they walked the other way.

Perhaps I am not making it clear BT, most of these folks served before you were born. Many of us are retired and a lot of the supporters have served and are too old to serve again. We DID OUR PART. Sure some of the folks are overweight but that happens when you get older but they can still fight as several moonbats found out.

Our turn is done (though I would not mind going if they recall me). We have 1.2 million people in the armed forces. We can pull them out of South Korea and Europe. Most of the services are meeting recruiting goals and there were plenty of guys at the rally who were home and going back or injured and could not. There are blue and gold star families. Not everyone who supports the war should go fight it. Many mothers were there in support for the effort and for their children fighting. What kind of idiot would say to send them over? You would…

However, I am willing to bet just about any of the guys you made fun of because of their weight could kick your ass from one end of town to the other. I weigh more than I should and more than I did when I served but if you ever want to see if I can still fight let me know. Or pick one of the old guys there and see if you can take him. I bet you get slapped like a red headed step child. You are good at insulting people who served honorably and yet you excuse the people who can not have a peaceful demonstration. The police in DC hate the anti war people because they make a mess and destroy things. They hate them because they cause trouble. Every cop I asked gave a similar response, they hate them.

You act as if these people are just spouting for war and have never been there or served their time.

I also told you that no one on the right would do such a thing but that if it turned out that way I would apologize. We can wait until they find who did it but until we do I am sticking with my opinion that a moonbat did it.

The obvious you speak of is not obvious to anyone else. There is plenty of groundswell and many of these folks would go. Maybe you don’t understand that they are not qualified any longer. Disabled, war injured, too old, etc. Some of them fought in wars while you were in your daddy’s scrotum.

There would be no need for all this if the left could obey the law and demonstrate peacefully. THEY CANNOT. Nearly 200 were arrested on Saturday. None of ours were. So much for the Rove wannabes. We do not deface property that is not ours and we do not go around breaking laws.

You ask when these people are going to go fight the war. I ask when all you cowardly liberals are going to go fight for the freedoms you enjoy at the expense of others.

It’s horrible that the language of the young protestors was filthy. Conservatives should set an example with their own, better, more educated, Christ-like language. Not this: “low-life sc** sucking faggot”, which was found in BD’s comment above. It’s not just BD though, it’s all over the conservative blogosphere and it should be fought vigorously in the name of good manners and proper, Christian upbringing. Otherwise, we’ll sound self-righteous, and rightly so. Of course, we could all talk like that and stop making a big deal about it, too.

BD,

So in other words, there wasn’t a huge surge of enlistment, was there? Was there ANY enlistment going on there? I didn’t see any photos of people who had just signed up and if it was happening, I can be sure an ‘Eagle’ would have plastered the photo on their blog. The new enlistee would have been the right-wing hero of the day for sure. As it is, many of the photos were of Eagles who were, if I may channel Ann Coulter for a moment, probably too fat to fight. How are those chubby people going to stop an Islamofascist anything? I suppose they could ‘roll’ to victory Is that where the term ‘Rolling Thunder” comes from? Did the Eagles even march or did they just lean their heft on the barriers and watch everything?

Some but not all GOE people are veterans, right? It’s a perfectly legitimate question to ask why they aren’t off fighting their favorite war. You may have noticed in the news yesterday that the military has to look for more contractors because logistics soldiers in Iraq are having to go on patrol due to troops shortages. You know what BD? If the US military can’t scrape up enough troops in a country of 300,000,000 people to keep a 180,000 person occupation going, then we’re not on a true war footing, are we? Sounds like an issue the Commander-in-Chief should address instead of attempting to sweep it under the carpet. Certainly the military has a need for more warriors as illustrated by their increasingly desperate attempts to get recruits. I suggested Wild Bill could join and stop begging for handouts as a result of the signing bonus, but he was already dishonorably discharged once (and, if I remember the Wall Street Journal article about him correctly, he also has a burglary conviction), so it might require other pro-war cheerleaders to step up to the plate.

I saw in Kat’s photos some dude at the GOE event wearing a shirt saying he’s ‘fighting the insurgency at home’, whatever that’s supposed to mean. I interpret that as meaning he’s not very serious about fighting what wingnuts consider to be the struggle of our time, the “Long War” against Islamofascism.

About the memorial, we’ve been thru it. You don’t know who actually defaced it. You used your questionable logic to lay responsibility at the feet of ‘moonbats’, without any evidence whatsoever. I can, and did, make an equally questionable case that it was a Karl Rove wannabe, roly-poly conservative, who is also probably too fat to fight. Is it wrong to deface it? Yes. Why don’t we let the police take care of it? I just think it’s funny that the GOE people are ready to roll on memorial defacers but there doesn’t seem to be any popular GOE groundswell to actually go fight the real war, the one they talk so tough about.

Are you going to ban me for pointing out the obvious?

Thanks to all who commented here, even BT. If not for people like him we would forget what sanity is.

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They have already enlisted and served proudly and honorably.

I realize that the only reason to visit here is to insult people. You continue to use the word vaseline and insult these veterans and then ask if they did anything heroic. You act as if what they do is unimportant when you should be asking what kind of low-life sc** sucking faggot would destroy these kinds of things and act this way especially in his own country? Suppose I decided that I wanted to protest your annoyance by spray painting the word dumb ass all over your house? Would that be OK or would you expect the police to do something and would you maybe get some security or cameras if it happened over and over or was threatened to happen over and over?

Well pal, this is country is MY house and I do not want people who have no social graces walking around destroying it. Just imagine how the moonbats would act if some veteran destroyed a monument to the Kent State dead or spray painted Code Pink Headquarters…

Our veterans have done more heroic things than you can ever imagine or that you would ever be man enough to do. I will tell you that they did not do anything cowardly like deface PUBLIC property and they did not break the law by trespassing and they were not sitting there smoking dope on the Capitol lawn. Any news story you read describes the GOE as the peaceful counter protesters.

I am writing this only once, do not come here and insult veterans again. You enlist, you serve, and you defend this country so that pukes (like you)are allowed to have an opinion and then you will be allowed to talk about these veterans. Since you do not have the testicular fortitude to do this, keep you opinions about vets to yourself. DO NOT make this mistake again.

That is the first and only time I will tell you that.