Posted on 08/18/2005 1:57:39 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
Edited on 08/18/2005 3:43:02 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Move America Forward will be conducting the “You Don’t Speak for Me, Cindy” caravan beginning next week. It will feature military family members who have loved ones serving in the war against terrorism in Iraq or Afghanistan. The delegation will be led by Deborah Johns of Marine Moms. (Her son has served in Operation Iraqi Freedom).
Main caravan leaves from San Francisco, California on Monday, August 22nd. Other caravans will depart from around the country. If you want to be part of a caravan, email us with your name and location you will depart from and we will include in our caravan coverage so people in your area can depart with you.
Everyone arrives in Crawford, Texas for a giant “We Support Our Troops AND Their Mission” Rally on Saturday, August 27, 2005.
If you have a loved one serving in Iraq or Afghanistan and would like to join the caravan please contact Move America Forward’s Robert Dixon: Robert@MoveAmericaForward.org
We can't go to Texas
LOL, I didn't say I was going to Texas, just to Fresno.
But that's a dern good idea, I may take your suggestion and drive to Crawford! I hear that George (I call him George...) is going to throw a BBQ for us at the Ranch!
LOL - it cost me $62 to fill my car last Sunday, And it's under a quarter tank already. Ugh!! And I'm going out tonight so I'll have to fill up.
Had I had an empty tank, mine would've been close to $75.
Yeah! War for Oil! Yeah! This is working!
/off HEAVY SARCASM
LOL! Are you like me? Do you drive an evil SUV??
I do.
It is horribly evil.
And I'm not giving it up!
DARN TOOTIN'!
Not just the United states....
Thanks!! It's great to be home!!
From MAF website schedule:
Tuesday August 23, 2005
Morning talk show in Fresno
You should go! We would, if we could get away from the studio, but it just isn't happening this time of year.
I hear that George (I call him George...) is going to throw a BBQ for us at the Ranch!
LOL. Well, I'd sure find a way to get there if I got an invite........but, alas, I'm not on a first name basis. Bring me a doggie bag. ;-)
South Texas Pile on Ping!
Please FReepmail me if you want on or off this South Texas/Mexico ping list.
Woo hoo!! Just got the word from Syncro that he can drive us! We're in the caravan!! We're going to TEXAS!!
Yahoo!!!
Thank you Syncro!!
I've sent an email asking the organizer for details.
If they are staying in Fresno, does anyone know where? Other than publicize it, if you know, send me FReepmail.
I do not know of any morning talk show from FResno. Ray's show runs from noon until 2:00.
Hey ... I have a few acres they could use for a parking lot. :)
Woo Hoo.
WOW ..... I'm so happy that you are joining this caravan.
I would still like to have some kind of a support rally.
Looks like Ms. Sheehan is going home...?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1466160/posts
Hey, Amy, did you see this??? LOL.
Yippee!!! I am so glad you are going to be able to go! And, I am sooooo envious, cuz I can't.
Rational,
this was not a vitriolic post, and so, I will not reply in an angry vitriolic way.
But, I believe that you are ignorant, and your ignorance is a danger to our troops, and the citizens of this country. But ignorance is a condition that is not fatal and can be cured with education.
Now, first off, I must ask you WHY you think the President went to Iraq? Do you believe the President is a blood thirsty tyrannical emperialist? Was he trying to conquer a land and a people to enslave them for our purposes? As a sense of "nationalism"? Was he thirsty for oil? Where is the oil?
I write you as one who is NOT ignorant of the situation in Iraq. Whose family has been there and seen with their own eyes the joy of a people who were allowed to vote for the very first time, people who risked their lives to do so; and the horror of innocent people having their heads hacked off while hearing the shouts, "allah is great!".
I am a person who is not ignorant about the war on terror--but instead have been involved in it in a way that not many Americans are. Involved so that you don't have to be.
Now, I want you to get a globe. Find Iran. What is the country on the left of Iran? What is the country on the right? Where are our troops? Where were our troops in the year 2000?
You say that terrorism was not in Iraq before the war. The children raped in the rape rooms might tend to disagree with you. Kurd survivors might tend to disagree with you. The men hung on hooks in the "interrogation" rooms might tend to disagree with you. But, setting Saddam's terror aside for a moment, let's admit that you are correct, in that there are more OUTSIDE terrorist coming into Iraq. Would you rather they were here?
Now, where do you suppose they would have attacked the United States, if we were not in Iraq? Do you think that they are just angry at us for being in Iraq---so angry at us that they feel they must cut the heads off innocent humanbeings? Do you really think that they would not have cut anyone's head off, if we would not have attacked Iraq? Why did the terrorists mutilate and drag the bodies of our troops through the streets of Mogadishu, when we were there handing out food? Why did terrorists kill innocent humanbeings on 9-11? The terrorists in Iraq come from Iran, Syria and other countries who have often been at war with Iraq themselves! Their mission has nothing to do with us removing Saddam from power in Iraq. They want to destroy us in the same way Muhammad destroyed those who did not believe in his 'visions'.
"It is not for any Prophet to have captives until he hath made slaughter in the land" (Surah 8:67).
It is our religious belief that they can not tolerate, not anything that we have done.
These terrorists would part your head from your body, right in your own home, if we were not there. Libya would still be involved in terror, if we were not there. Iran would send a nuclear missle on our cities, if we were not there. We NEED to be there.
The volunteers in our military, over there, are fighting for our lives and our freedom. You are ignorant. Blissfully ignorant of the truth and the enemies of the United States who are using a grieving mother as a lightening rod, hoping to castrate the United States Military so that they may destroy us.
Bravo and well said.
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