Associated Press photo
Size matters: Wow, look at that HUGE crowd of pro-bogus-Bush-war wingnuts in front of the U.S. Capitol today! Why, there must be 20 or 30 of 'em! And you're right, wingnut dude!: "Freedom" ain't free! "Freedom," as defined by the Bush regime, is costing the American people billions of their tax dollars that are funneled away from the things that they need, like jobs, health care, education, a clean environment and oh, I don't know -- protection from natural disasters -- to Dick Cheney's Halliburton and other war-profiteering subsidiaries of BushCheneyCorp! No, "freedom" is costing us Americans billions and billions of our hard-earned tax dollars! So thank you, wingnut dude, for pointing out to us that "Freedom is not Free!"
Pro-war wingnuts can muster
only pathetic crowd in D.C.
From The Associated Press today:
Support for U.S. troops fighting abroad mixed with anger toward anti-war demonstrators at home as hundreds of people, far fewer than organizers had expected, rallied [today] on the National Mall just a day after tens of thousands protested against the war in Iraq.
"No matter what your ideals are, our sons and daughters are fighting for our freedom," said Marilyn Faatz, who drove from New Jersey to attend the rally. "We are making a mockery out of this. And we need to stand united, but we are not."
About 400 people gathered near a stage on an eastern segment of the mall, a large patchwork American flag serving as a backdrop. Amid banners and signs proclaiming support for U.S. troops, several speakers hailed the effort to bring democracy to Iraq and Afghanistan and denounced those who protest it.
Many demonstrators focused their ire at Cindy Sheehan, the California woman whose protest near President Bush's Texas home last summer galvanized the anti-war movement. Sheehan was among the speakers at [yesterday's] rally near the Washington Monument on the western part of the mall, an event that attracted an estimated 100,000 people.
"The group who spoke here the other day did not represent the American ideals of freedom, liberty and spreading that around the world," Sen. Jeff Sessions, an Alabama Republican, told the crowd. "I frankly don't know what they represent, other than to blame America first."
One sign on the mall read "Cindy Sheehan doesn't speak for me" and another "Arrest the traitors"; it listed Sheehan's name first among several people who have spoken against the war.
Melody Vigna, 44, of Linden, Calif., said she wants nothing to do with Sheehan and others at nearby Camp Casey, an anti-war site set up to honor [Sheehan's] son, Casey, who was killed in Iraq.
"Our troops are over there fighting for our rights, and if she was in one of those countries she would not be able to do that," Vigna said.
The husband of Sherri Francescon, 24, of Camp Lejeune, N.C., serves in the Marine Corps in Iraq. One of the many military wives who spoke during the rally, Francescon said that the anti-war demonstration had left her frustrated.
"I know how much my husband does and how hard he works, and I feel like they don't even recognize that and give him the respect he deserves," Francescon said. "I want him to know and I want his unit to know that America is behind them, Cindy doesn't speak for us, and that we believe in what they are doing."
Organizers of [today's] demonstration acknowledged that their rally would be much smaller than the anti-war protest but had hoped that as many as 20,000 people would turn out.
[Yesterday], demonstrators opposed to the war in Iraq surged past the White House in the largest anti-war protest in the nation's capital since the U.S. invasion. The rally stretched through the night, a marathon of music, speechmaking and dissent on the mall.
National polls have found steadily declining support for the war in Iraq, with a majority of Americans now believing the war was a mistake.
In an AP-Ipsos poll this month, only 37 percent approved or leaned toward approval of how Bush has handled the situation in Iraq; strong disapproval outweighed strong approval by 2-1, 46 percent to 22 percent. [Emphasis mine.]
I post this AP story for two main reasons: One, to demonstrate that the pro-war wingnuts, who claim to represent the nation, could only gather a fucking fraction of the number of people that the anti-war real Americans could gather yesterday. If their cause is so fucking popular, why couldn't they get even a thousand people in D.C. today?
The other reason that I post this AP story is to let the wingnuts hang themselves with their own words:
"No matter what your ideals are, our sons and daughters are fighting for our freedom," said Marilyn Faatz, who drove from New Jersey to attend the rally. "We are making a mockery out of this. And we need to stand united, but we are not."
It is the Bush regime that made a mockery of the United States even before it took office in January 2000, when it stole the presidential election with the collusion of Repugnican Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris, the five members of the U.S. Supreme Court who had been appointed by Repugnicans presidents, and many others (call me a conspiracy nut, but I'm sure that George's brother Jeb, being governor of the state that decided the election, lent Team Bush a helping hand as well).
It meant absolutely nothing to the freedom-and-democracy-lovin' Repugnicans that more than half a million more Americans had voted for Al Gore than for George W. Bush. They just wanted power, power at any cost -- even at the cost of our democracy. (How about some fucking democracy here at home before we go "spreading" it elsewhere? [And funny that the wingnuts should talk about "spreading" democracy like you would spread a virus, because their version of democracy is an illness -- one in which we invade your nation, kill you if you resist our occupation, put a regime that is friendly to us in charge of your nation, and pronounce you "free" and "democratized."])
From the stolen election of 2000, the mockery that the Repugnicans have made of this nation has only worsened. The United States is now the laughingstock of the planet: We are mired in a war of choice in Iraq that we can't win (of course, the longer that the U.S. occupation of Iraq drags on, the more $$$ that the war profiteers rake in) and we didn't even have the resources and/or the will to save our own people from a hurricane for which there had been plenty of advance warning.
Yeah, Ms. Faatz, let's talk "mockery." Please, let's do.
Ms. Faatz, like the rest of the wingnuts, claims that our "sons and daughters are fighting for our freedom." Not in Iraq they aren't, since Iraq never fucking threatened our freedom. Iraq never possessed the weapons of mass destruction that the Bush regime lied it did. Not only that, although "President" Bush has called Iraq the "a central front in the war on terror," it was never demonstrated that Iraq had committed one act of terrorism against the United States before the Bush regime illegally, immorally, unprovokedly and imperialistically invaded Iraq in March 2003.
There's plenty of terrorism in Iraq now -- because of the fucking Bush regime. Fucking duh.
And I agree with Ms. Faatz that we need to stand united: We need to stand united against the illegal, immoral, unprovoked and imperialist -- and, I will add, un-Christian -- invasions and occupations of sovereign nations. We need to stand united against a White House regime that lies to us for the reasons that it takes our nation to war and unnecessarily puts our sons and daughters in the U.S. military in harm's way.
We need to stand united against warmongers -- like Dick Cheney and his buds at Halliburton -- who stay out of harm's way themselves but who profit from death and destruction, who funnel our tax dollars from the things we need to no-bid government contracts in the destruction and reconstruction of sovereign nations that posed no threat to the United States in the first place.
We need to stand united in this way, just as Jesus would have us do.
But what Ms. Faatz and others really mean when they say that "we need to stand united" is that all of us Americans should act like one big alcoholic family and dysfunctionally pretend that Daddy Bush isn't an alcoholic (he's a dry drunk if he isn't actually drinking) and pretend that everything is just fine.
Fuck you, Ms. Faatz. Everything is not just fine. If you want your head planted firmly up your ass, that's your business, but don't inflict yourself on the rest of us.
"The group who spoke here the other day did not represent the American ideals of freedom, liberty and spreading that around the world," Sen. Jeff Sessions, an Alabama Republican, told the crowd. "I frankly don't know what they represent, other than to blame America first."
Alabama. Republican. That says it all.
But I love that phrase, "Blame America first." Not only is it one of the few short phrases that the morons who support the Repugnican party can remember, like "Freedom isn't free," but you have to admire its propagandistic intent: By always accusing someone who has a criticism of the United States, no matter how valid, of "blaming America first," it means that the United States of America can never, ever, never, ever do any wrong. The United States of America is 100 percent perfect and 100 percent right 100 percent of the time. Wow. Goebbels is jealous in hell.
There's that "spreading" "freedom" and "liberty" "around the world" that I was talking about: We kill you if you oppose our military occupation of your nation, because we are good, and therefore, if you oppose us, then you must be evil, and if you are evil, then we will kill you, because we are good, and Jesus Christ was all about killing people. God Bless Amurica!
One sign on the mall read "Cindy Sheehan doesn't speak for me" and another "Arrest the traitors"; it listed Sheehan's name first among several people who have spoken against the war.
That's funny, because since I view the Bush regime as a cabal of traitors, by extension, their supporters would be traitors. So at least the wingnuts and I have something in common: We view each other as traitors.
Maybe we can hash this difference out, like we did during the Civil War. We blue-staters would fucking kick the red-staters' lame asses once again.
And is Cindy Sheehan the new Saddam Hussein or what? Those wingnuts gotta have someone to hate, gotta displace all of their bile onto someone. It isn't that George W. Bush is a treasonous war criminal that's the problem! It's that that Cindy Sheehan bitch had to go and point it out that's the problem! If she had just kept her mouth shut, everything would have been just fine!
"Our troops are over there fighting for our rights, and if [Cindy Sheehan] was in one of those countries she would not be able to do that," [Melody] Vigna said.
Again, because Iraq never fucking posed a threat to our rights, it cannot be argued by any sane, even mildly intelligent human being that the United States occupies Iraq right now to protect Americans' rights. God, I'm so sick of being surrounded by so many fucking blooming idiots, and I'm starting to think that the biggest mistake that we blue-staters made in the Civil War is that we let so many dumbfucks live to pass on their defective genes.
And the remark, "if [Cindy Sheehan] was in one of those countries she would not be able to do that," is just a variation of this oft-uttered oxymoronic "argument" of the wingnuts: "Our troops are fighting for your right to free speech -- so shut up!"
Again, the American gene pool sorely needs some cleanin'.
"I know how much my husband does and how hard he works, and I feel like they don't even recognize that and give him the respect he deserves," [Sherri] Francescon said. "I want him to know and I want his unit to know that America is behind them, Cindy doesn't speak for us, and that we believe in what they are doing."
Memo to the wingnuts: Cindy Sheehan does speak for millions of us real Americans, so fuck off.
That said, there are some members of the U.S. military who are worthy of respect and some who are not. Some of them are sadistic thugs. They joined the military because they are authoritarian asswipes who get off on abusing, torturing and killing others, such as we saw graphically with Abu Ghraib. And it's not just Abu Ghraib -- more revelations of the illegal and immoral torture of Iraqis by members of the U.S. military elsewhere in Iraq came to light this past week.
Just as there are good cops and bad cops, there are respectable members of the U.S. military and there are despicable members of the U.S. military. So don't fucking tell me that I have to worship the entire U.S. military, because I don't and I don't.
When the U.S. military is actually doing what it is supposed to be doing -- which is (I know that I have to remind the wingnuts and most of the red-staters) defending the United States of America from actual threats -- then I am even more pro-U.S. military than are the wingnuts who gathered in D.C. today.
But the U.S. military these days rarely serves the purpose of defense, but primarily serves the purpose of U.S. corporate expansion under the guise of "spreading" "freedom" and "democracy," God Bless Amurica.
So no, I don't believe in what the U.S. military is doing in Iraq -- killing Iraqis for the war profits of Dick Cheney's Halliburton and other war-profiteering subsidiaries of BushCheneyCorp -- and I'm not going to claim that I do so as not to ruffle the wingnuts' feathers. Fuck the wingnuts and their defective genes.
And I can't think of a better way to support our troops than to never, ever, never, ever put them in harm's way unless absolutely necessary. Iraq not only never had an intention to cause harm to the United States, but it did not even have the capability to do so. Therefore, calling the Bush regime's March 2003 invasion of Iraq "defensive" is as much of a fucking joke as it is a fucking lie.
Because the wingnuts don't give a shit that our troops are being slaughtered for corporate profits in Iraq, I can only conclude that they don't actually give a flying fuck about our troops -- I can only conclude that they want to be able to continue to fuel their SU-fucking-Vs and that they don't mind if our troops have to die in order for them to be able to do that. After all, the freedom to drive our SUVs with tacky magnets that say "Pray for Our Troops" and "Support Our Troops" isn't free!
Of course, it looks like I don't really have to fight the wingnuts. American opinion has turned against the Vietraq War, and as the Vietraq War is never going to get better, American opinion about the Vietraq War is never going to get better. The wingnuts are a minority now and they are surprisingly quickly losing power, whether they will acknowledge that reality or not.
But I don't want to see the Repugnicans just crippled, because they could come back, like Jason in one of the endless "Friday the 13th" sequels.
I want to see them extinguished.
This time, we blue-staters should finish the job.
OK, to be fair and balanced, here are a few more pictures of the pro-war wingnuts' rally in D.C. today:
 
Associated Press photos
Um, I thought that these people were against the desecration of the U.S. flag. It seems to me that they desecrate it every fucking chance that they get...
They hate us fags, but we fags really could help them with their tackiness problem.
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