Category: Antiwar crowd

Turns out that the moonbats get nuttier when they think they influenced an election. Cindy Sheehan and her crowd busted up Rahm Emmanuel’s policy press briefing yesterday. The last line of the story is the funniest;

Before the chanting started, Sheehan got a hug from Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., the new chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.

I wonder if Conyers would’ve hugged her if he’d known she was going to interupt. Of course, the Democrats will kowtow to the anti-war crowd because the Democrats have assembled the largest coalition of crackpots as constitiuents ever. From the “stop circumscision” crowd to the “surrender now” crowd – they all take credit for the Democrats winning Congress and they all want their slice of the pie – just like the MoveOn crowd who threatened to take over the party after their 2004 loss.

And for those of you who don’t get to come inside the Beltway like I do every morning, there are super-lifesized posters of Nancy Pelosi on bus stops everywhere congratulating her for “her” win in the last election. I wonder who put those up.

That botox-filled mug greets me every morning in front of my office – and seeing it in the early-morning darkeness frightens me. Wonder why I’m always in such a bad mood? The posters have been up since mid-November, by the way.

And this from the Washington Times;

After calling herself “the most powerful woman in America,” Mrs. Pelosi flexed her right muscle like a weight lifter to much applause at an event yesterday titled a “women’s tea.”
    “All right, let’s hear it for the power,” she screamed as the jubilant applause continued.

I guess she’s forgotten about the Howard Dean scream. Too bad it’s not on video somewhere for all to see every 30 minutes on cable news.

Elsewhere, it’s being reported that “rising star” Barack Obama has admitted that he used cocaine after he graduated from law school. Of course, all I hear on the news is how brave he is for admitting it, and how strong he is for not becoming an addict. From the same people who accuse President Bush of cocaine use with absolutely no evidence or an admission.

To me, bravery would have been avoiding drug use as recently-graduated law student who should have had more respect for his chosen field. But I guess laws are supposed to be selectively broken by our betters. 

And Joe Lieberman’s party (Connecticut for Lieberman) has been taken over by a moonbat political science professor who plans on running another candidate against Joe in the next Senate election. Anything to keep lawyers employed, I guess.

 

The first time I posted this, it mysteriously disappeared and took the rest of my archives with it, so I’ll try it one more time; 

At Nation.com there’s a story by Marc Cooper about active duty troops signing an online petition demanding an end to the war. It begins;

For the first time since Vietnam, an organized, robust movement of active-duty US military personnel has publicly surfaced to oppose a war in which they are serving. Those involved plan to petition Congress to withdraw American troops from Iraq.

If Mr. Cooper did a minute’s research, he’d know that if there was anything 100% of the troops ever agreed with all of the questions put to them, the answers would probably all have something to do with free beer. That’s the only thing my troops ever agreed on unanimously.

I’d hardly call “nearly 1,000 US soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen” signing an internet petition either organized or robust. If someone had a mind to sign this petition, they come to this page which doesn’t prompt the user for any credentials. So it’s open to everyone and anyone. We all know that no one ever lies on the internet and no one ever embellishes their military record. So it’s got to be all on the up-and-up.

Now some of the comments in the original story are hillarious all by themselves. Stop/loss is a joke. These “troops” are complaining that they’ve been stop/lossed until 2010. An initial enlistment is eight years long, if they’d enlisted in 2002, before the Iraq War as they claim, their enlistment would end in 2010, wouldn’t it?

These organizations that are sponsoring the petition, Iraq Veterans Against the War, Veterans For Peace, and Military Families Speak Out, as near as I figure are manned soley by placards. I’ve been to most of the anti-war protests here in DC and I’ve never seen any members of these organizations. I’ve seen big cardboard signs stuck in the ground and fastened to power poles (some even held by people, but not veterans), but I’ve never met an actual veteran near the signs to answer questons or recruit membership. Usually there’s some worn out old hag wearing a long dress and smelling of burnt rope that can’t point the inquirer to any real members either. Yeah, I know, I’ve seen the websites with pictures of the marchers and membership, but I’ve never met any of them in real life.

And it’s convenient that these names won’t be released until January – it’d be too easy to check on the names to see if they were really in the military. A quick check of the only complete name in The Nation story, Mark Mackoviak of Fort Bragg, NC, on Military.com’s Buddy Finder only turns up a profile that was created on Military.com and not filled out which leads me to believe that there is no such person who has been in the military. Buddy Finder is not 100% reliable, but funny how the only name that can be checked is suspiciously absent from public records.

Marc Cooper assures us that

The Nation spoke with rank-and-file personnel as well as high-ranking officers–some on the Iraqi front lines, others at domestic and offshore US military bases–who have signed the Appeal. All of their names will be made available to Congress when the Appeal is presented in mid-January. 

Somehow assurances from The Nation don’t make me any more comfortable with this story at face value, so I’ll be waiting for the list with bated breath.