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Category: Antiwar crowd

  • Shocking; al Qaeda doesn’t buy Hope nor Change

    I thought the planets were all going to align, dogs would start dating cats and terrorists would pelt us with flowers when Obama was elected. Apparently Ayman al-Zawahri isn’t buying the whole hope and change thing;

    Al-Zawahri also called Obama—along with secretaries of state Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice—”house negroes.”

    Speaking in Arabic, al-Zawahri uses the term “abeed al-beit,” which literally translates as “house slaves.” But al-Qaida supplied English subtitles of his speech that included the translation as “house negroes.”

    MSNBC has some more disturbing quotes from Zawahri;

    The tape also criticizes Obama for his position on Israel, stating that this proves his “stance of hostility to Islam and Muslims”.

    Al-Zawahri also urged Muslims to continue attacks against “criminal America”.

    The 11 minute and 23 second message is the first public comment by an al-Qaida about Obama’s electoral victory.

    Holy smokes! That might just mean that those folks who hate us, hate us because we’re Americans, not because of our policies or our leaders (as Democrats told us the last eight years). It may mean they want to blow us up no matter which party controls the reins of government. Jeez, I’d never thought of that.
    The Jawa Report has the complete transcript and video.

  • Veterans for Peace at the Archives

    Well, I’m back from my trip to the National Archives this morning and Vets For Peace still up there on the scaffolding. I asked three security guards separately if VfP been up there all night; one said he didn’t know, one said they had been up there all night and a third thought they were workers cleaning the building’s facade and didn’t know they were protesters until I told him.

    In the After Downing Street post yesterday, they quoted some guy who said he’d seen their banner from over two miles away – dude had good eyes. I parked a block away and didn’t see the banner until I got to Constitution Avenue across the street from the Archives;

    More pictures and video below the fold;

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  • Vets For Peace campout at National Archives…again (UPDATED)

    I’m getting reports that the Geezers for Peace are “occupying” the National Archives again. Of course, “occupying” to them doesn’t mean taking over the building or anything. it means they’re standing on a ledge like they always do. I can’t find pictures yet, but there are some from the last “occupation” my previous post about their last shot at a measure of relevance back in September.

    Actually, they claim that they’ve climbed 90 feet of scaffolding and standing on the roof this time, taking advantage of the fact that most of the cops in town are providing security at the G-20 meeting about a mile down Pennsylvania Avenue from the Archives. Well that’s what I hear anyway. They plan on being up there until Monday – if that’s true, I may go down there tomorrow and get some pictures.

    Their stated reasons for camping out on the roof of a Federal Building is to “insure Bush and Cheney are arrested” – you know, the standard horseshit line of these delusional children. All they’re really doing is trying to draw attention to themselves.

    My sources also tell me that belly-licking Matthis Chiroux, the notorious deserter and pretend victim of water-boarding for Maoist organizations is on the roof, too. I hope no one gets hurt and Matthis has to lick their owies. Chiroux is still calling himself “an Army Sergeant who served in Afghanistan” – he always leaves out the “for six days, give or take a few hours” part.

    To my joy, there’s rain predicted all night and the temperature will drop to 44 by morning. Maybe Matthis will discover what it’s really like to be a soldier finally.

    UPDATED: Gateway Pundit picked this up last night, too, a few hours behind my mole at IVAW. Here’s the only picture so far;

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  • Stupid moonbat pranks (and the dolts who fall for them)

    If you read Army Sergeant’s comment below about the “Yes Men”, you’re probably wondering to what she referred. Our buddy, DanNY wrote about it a few days ago. Well, these goofballs “Yes Men” printed a fake New York Times (odd, but the fake NYT is virtually indistinguishable from the actual newspaper in appearance as well as content) with this headline;

    There were also stories about a national healthcare system approved by Congress, news that some international organization will try President Bush for war crimes, an end to corporate lobbying, pay caps for CEOs, and a myriad of similar fake stories. Then the “Yes Men” went out on the street and interviewed the dolts who “knew change is coming, but I didn’t expect it so fast”. The video;

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  • Code Pink’s deep delusion

    My latest email from the hags at Code Pink celebrates the end of “the war” – whatever war it is they’re talking about. Somehow, they figure that because Barack Obama has been elected, the troops will be on their way home on January 20th and the thugs who want us all dead will somehow have a change of heart because the Pinkistas delivered apple pie, flowers and cards to their embassies (I kid you not – apple pies, flowers and cards) Here’s the email;

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  • IVAW gets a seat at Obama’s table

    When he was running to be everyone’s president, Barack Obama wouldn’t meet with General Petreaus while the general was commanding our efforts in Iraq. But now, it seems his staff will sit down with IVAW. A letter from Kelly Dougherty, the executive director of IVAW;

    IVAW has been working to hold a face-to-face meeting with now President-elect and members of his staff.  Our hard work has paid off!  We’ve recently been contacted by a member of President-elect Obama’s veteran staff and will be meeting with representatives of both his Veteran and Foreign Affairs Committees this month.  This is a huge opportunity for IVAW to assert our voice and perspective at a new level and to continue to demand accountability for ending the occupation.

    So I’m guessing that the IVAW will be presenting their three demands – immediate withdrawal from Iraq (before we win despite their best efforts), fully funded veteran services (one out of three) and full reparations to the Iraqi people (with what money?). I wonder when the Obama staff will meet with the grown ups.

    Dougherty continues;

    We  have been witness to the horror and violence of war and we are determined to give Americans a real eyewitness account of the occupations.

    We? Got a combat veteran mouse in your pocket, Kel? Doughtery’s testimony at Winter Soldier was confined to a single incident that involved KBR employees firing bean bags at Iraqi civilians to control the situation at the scene of an automobile accident. Oh, the horror. You know that’s the worst incident she witnessed because if she had more she’d have used other stories instead.

    Dougherty is also the person who told the House Progressive Caucus that they didn’t need to swear in any of the witnesses who testified to the committee because IVAW had already verified their testimony. I wonder if any of the banking CEOs who testified to Congress this morning got the same consideration.

    Thanks to my busy little mole for the tip.

    Welcome to Gateway Pundit readers.

  • They need jobs

    Some unidentified IVAW members snuck up on a gas station and, to use their word, they “raided” it by putting signs on the gas pumps and playing with toy soldiers in the road (what did their mothers tell them about playing in the street?). Their new slogan is W.A.N.T. (We Are Not Toys). You can watch them put all of their military training into standing up the tiny toys in this video they took;

    The sign they’re putting up refers to the antiquated empty-headed “War for Oil” slogan;

    And, of course, no IVAW mission is complete without displaying the flag upside down;

    Maybe if they had jobs, they’d have less time to make blunt points.

  • How times change

    Remember when this was hip;
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    That was a picture I took just this last March.

    This was in April;

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    And this was in July;

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    Upside down flags were the way the Left showed their displeasure with the Bush Administration.

    Over at Gateway Pundit, Jim discovers that it’s not so cool any more since Tuesday;

    Veteran Lou Schrader of Las Cruces, New Mexico flew his flag upside down on Wednesday in protest of Barack Obama winning the presidency.
    This alarmed his liberal neighbors.
    The Sun-News reported:

    “Now that there’s an African-American president, he’s protesting the U.S., and I think it’s funny because, if you love your country, you love it no matter what.”

    Kollaros said he backs freedom of speech, but flying the flag upside-down shouldn’t be done lightly because it could send the wrong message.

    “We’ve got to be careful about how we do that, because we don’t want to offend people,” he said.

    I’m not saying I support Mister Schrader’s flying the flag upside down, but I think it’s pretty hypocritical of the Left to pick and choose when they’re going to get a bout of patriotism. The flag represents the people, the nation, not the party that resides at the White House.

    Stable Hand at The Jawa Report writes about similar sentiments in Seattle of all places;

    I shall now call them phony f’n patriots.

    “Red, White & True Blue: City Hoists Old Glory

    Barack Obama’s presidential win held a poignant significance for liberal Seattleites: This is their America, too.

    The feeling was evident in jubilant partying in the streets, in quiet moments of reflection and in blossoms of red, white and blue.

    With newfound patriotism, Seattleites want to wave the flag, hang it from their homes and stick it on their cars.

    I wonder what Skye will encounter in West Chester, PA this weekend.