Since this followed my statement that I had joined the anti-Vietnam protests as soon as I was a civilian, I drew the obvious conclusion…

Unfortunatly you didn’t read what I actually wrote: Repack, I’m curious if you and your mother spent the day at that protest… to try and make it clear I was referring to the Anti-Iraq War protests and not whatever you had done previously since you made a specific reference to attending an anti-Iraq protest with your mom.

SFC, if you heard that a war protester loved his mother, would you quit loving yours? If a war protester turns out to be a racist jerk, it doesn’t make me one, and it doesn’t make him wrong about the war.

…which means that any opinion you have about the anti-Vietnam war protesters are not first hand like mine are.

When have I said anything about Vietnam-era protests?

Yet you try to tell me that I;m wrong about the events I saw and that you only heard about years later.

When did I say you were wrong about any event? You said I was lying and demanded proof of protesters calling for the death of American Soldiers. I provided it. Oh… wait… I guess that would be me showing you that you were wrong. Is that the same as telling you you’re wrong? What’s the etiquette on that?

…I would buy a ticket to see you question HIS patriotism.

When I have said I questioned your patriotism RR, let alone your friend’s? Seriously dude, enough with the persecution complex.

Sean, what’s the logical fallacy when someone tries to get you to rebut a charge you never made in the first place? I think RR and the “questioning patriotism” is one of those.

My math says that you must have been born around 1970, which means that any opinion you have about the anti-Vietnam war protesters are not first hand like mine are.

Yet you try to tell me that I;m wrong about the events I saw and that you only heard about years later.

Seriously, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.

One of my high school classmates (we were both National Merit Scholars) served in Vietnam as the commander of a Marine rifle platoon. When Bush started lying to get us into Iraq, you never met a more passionate anti-war protester than this guy. Like me, he is 63 years old now, still a big wave surfer, and I would buy a ticket to see you question HIS patriotism.

You sure do think of this word a lot. Or are you going to go on another one of your ‘witty’ screeds about how you really really aren’t gay.

I say use that word all you want. Use it in every post. It adds so much credence to your opinions. Makes you seem like a big strong man.

If their goal was to end war, or even end a specific war, they have failed miserably. If the goal was to provide the Democratic Party with a slim majority in congress, which they would then use to not accomplish anything, Mission Accomplished

Seriously, your already tenuous connection to reality seems to be fraying SFC B.

You are not old enough to know any more about that era than what others have told you.

Um, I had already been in the Army for 8 years before Iraq. I’ve seen the anti-Iraq protests.

I’m calling you on your urban legend protesters, which are a propaganda image created by cowards who never served either.

I tried to do embedded links for these, but it kept eating them…

If you check out Zombietime’s best of you’ll see protesters supporting resistance in Iraq and the death of Marines in Fallujah. A look through Google Images for protesters will showcase supportive sentiments like fragging, burning Soldiers in effigy while chanting about killing them, calling troops murders, and many other patriotic sayings.

Did y’all really not know that sentiments like this were openly, proudly even, showcased at the anti-war protests? As some have said, they’re not all anti-war, some are just on the opposite side.

You are not old enough to know any more about that era than what others have told you.

Um, I had already been in the Army for 8 years before Iraq. I’ve seen the anti-Iraq protests.

I’m calling you on your urban legend protesters, which are a propaganda image created by cowards who never served either.

I tried to do embedded links for these, but it kept eating them…

Video of protesters burning a Soldier in effigy while singing about killing them: https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20601984&postID=5094701947794759184

“fuck the troops”: https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=20601984&postID=2984056473385294574

Advocating fragging (for those not in the know fragging is the killing of your leaders): http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/03/portland-protesters-call-for-fragging.html

Yeah. I’d like to see SFC B provide some sort of support for that…

If so, you should call them out post haste.

Ask and ye shall receive.

Did y’all really not know that sentiments like this were openly, proudly even, showcased at the anti-war protests? As some have said, they’re not all anti-war, some are just on the opposite side.

You are not old enough to know any more about that era than what others have told you.

I’m not old enough to have remembered the Iraq protests? Granted, I was but a twinkle in my father’s eye back in the late 60s, early 70s, I was alive and well from 2003-current.

I’m calling you on your urban legend protesters, which are a propaganda image created by cowards who never served either.

Let’s see… Put the gun down or turn it around, Support Resistance in Iraq, Burning a Soldier in effigy., and Fuck the Troops. I’d also link to the Zombietime “Best of” but it isn’t exactly SFW since it features images from the various naked protests.

Yeah. I’d like to see SFC B provide some sort of support for that…

Ask and ye shall receive. Did y’all really have no idea that such sentiments were made public at some anti-war protests?

As some have said, sometimes they’re not anti-war. They’re on the other side.

You are not old enough to know any more about that era than what others have told you. And they must have lied.

After my Army service I spent ten years as a roadie for a San Francisco rock band, probably the center of the hippie, anti-war universe. Everyone I knew opposed the war. I saw plenty of anti-war protests, and I never met, heard about, or even read about those “Sasquatch” protesters that you have described. After all, everyone knows that, like Sasquatch, they must exist because so many people talk about them, but no one has ever really seen one, except for the cousin of my friend’s mom, or maybe her cousin’s friend.

I’m calling you on your urban legend protesters, which are a propaganda image created by cowards who never served either. Why don’t you conjure up a contemporaneous news article to prove that such protesters actually existed, and that I must have just missed them.

Given the extent to which reality is pretty much the opposite of what your comments (to the extent they can be deciphered to make any kind of consistent sense) I’ll take that as a compliment.

Wow, those people sound truly awful. Did any of them actually exist? If so, you should call them out post haste.

No. This administration is struggling to get the train back on the track after the last guys ran it off the rails.

I’m sure there are some people who are upset Obama isn’t doing an overnight type of withdrawal. But for the most part, the majority of Americans support a phased withdrawal along the lines of what Obama is going to do. This makes those opposed to the occupation of Iraq (i.e., the vast majority of Americans) fairly satisfied.

Mission Accomplished.

And in this case, we’re cleaning up after the free market kegger.

I thought the bankruptcy courts were the ones who usually cleaned up after the free market kegger. Whatever mechanisms the market had to clean up this mess were short circuited by TARP and then had their breaker box pulled out like a stump by the stimulus.

I only made E-5 during my one hitch in the Army…

Thank you for your service Repack Rider. I’m assuming that you were one of the many protesters wanting to bring the troops home, not one of the protesters openly supporting fratricide, fragging, or those whose mission was to kill American servicemen and women.

If you were the former why would I want to question your patriotism? What possible reason would there be for me to do so? We don’t happen to have the same opinion. It happens.

If you were one of the latter, go fuck yourself you unpatriotic [word too harsh for Michael Over Here's sensitive eyes].

I never have, and never will, question the patriotism of people who disagree with me simply because I disagree with them. What I do question in regards to the anti-war movement is this assertion that they were successful. If their goal was to end war, or even end a specific war, they have failed miserably. If the goal was to provide the Democratic Party with a slim majority in congress, which they would then use to not accomplish anything, Mission Accomplished (If they want to celebrate that I know where they can get a banner, only used once). Repack, I’m curious if you and your mother spent the day at that protest so that Nancy Pelosi could have a bigger office from which to ignore the people’s business. Was that the point?

Did you ever do anything that anyone noticed?

Nothing that could be proven in a court of law.

Of course, a troglodyte like Jay can’t even fathom that a political party is capable of acting both in its own interests and in the interests of the American people at the same time. Republicans, of course, are incapable of this insight.

/cue Jay: ZOMG I’M LIKE TOTALLY NOT A REPUBLICAN GAWD.

You are truly the comedy gift that keeps on giving, Jay. Now get those urine stained sheets off your bed so mom can wash them for you.

Your turn. Did you ever do anything that anyone noticed?