Hundreds not thousands join pro-Iraq war rally (CNN Main Page Headline)

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[Prokopton]

It's all just PR but PR is important in politics. One only has to look at the population of DC and the states surrounding it to see that it would be alot easier to get a group of liberals together than conservatives. Maybe DC is not the best place for a support our troops rally? Maybe response would be better in a Red State with a significant pro-US population? That's definitely not DC!

[MikeHu]

Are we running the country by mob rule -- or the most intelligent and responsible things said?

[MikeHu]

Were those anti-war protesters the CNN constituency?

[BIGLOOK]

Rodger that. Bombers away. (a la Iraqi Sneaky Petes preferably.)

[U S Army EOD]

But we need to stop a blood bath, no matter which side after it is over.

[MikeHu]

We know for sure that none of that crowd will be patronizing any of their advertisers.

[Morgan's Raider]

It also means that their group of regulars are speaking for their own causes that have nothing to do with the war, but have to do with the fact that they know the media will give them exposure. You know that when most of them start out with "aSalem a Lakim" (sp) they are not speaking for true Americans.

First of all, that gathering of rabble and scum yesterday had nothing to do with "anti-war". If a Bill Clinton, Algore, or J. F'n. Kerry had been at the helm and done the same thing, we wouldn't hear a peep out of them.

I'll guarandamntee you at least 75% of that bunch yesterday were the same ones lining the sidewalks of D.C. on Jan. 20, 2001.They hate W, and have ever since he wouldn't lay down and let that slimeball bolshevik Algore steal the 2000 election.

No, that shameful display yesterday was strictly a Hate Bush/Hate Cheney/Hate Capitalism/Hate Conservatives confab with a few Hate Israel/Hate Jews moonbats thrown into the mix. IOW, one great big hatefest.

[mystery-ak]

My hubby(in uniform) and I went into Krogers to grocery shop..we had just turned Rush off and he was discussing Cindy in the ditch, so my ire was already up.....we were in there about 30min...when we came out I noticed a little old lady with a white beret standing next to my car(remember my sticker) as my hubby started loading the groceries this woman ask me how I could support this war(hubby ignores her)and that we were bombing and mudering innocent people.....well, that was it for me...I lit into her.....to tell you the truth, I can't remember everything I said, I was that mad....but the little old lady ran to her car and locked her doors and rolled up her windows......and yes, she had a Kerry/Edwards sticker.........when I got back to my car i asked my hubby why he didn't say anything...he said *you were doing just fine, but you scared the sh$t out of me*...LOL

[BIGLOOK]

I was in I Corps. The VC and NVA targeted civilians at will; a face off with IstMarDIV or 3 MAF spelled doom. The ARVNs needed to step it up.

The Iraqi Army needs to step it up.

[frankjr]

"Thanks....just the other day I was insulted..."

Wow. Were your feelings hurt? Did you cry? I feel your pain. How dare someone insult you!?!?!?!

[bethtopaz]

That's a GREAT story!! Sounds like you have a terrific man, too!

You know what I'd love to see on Free Republic sometime? (I'm too new to know if it's o.k. to initiate this.) I'd love to see a thread where people relate their stories of how they left the Left and became conservatives.

What do you think?

By the way, I'm addicted to Rush's show. I'm working on building an insurance business and my first reward is to buy i-pod and subscribe to his 24/7 program where I can download the show, plus all the other goodies.

[MikeHu]

Memo to CNN:

It's quality of programming and viewership that is important -- and not whatever they're doing -- to retain market share.

[mystery-ak]

That might be an interesting thread. I know there are a lot of former Dems who have come over from the dard side here on FR.

[U S Army EOD]

Actually the South Vietnamese army killed far more North Vietnamese than we did even though the NVA were usually better equipped. We can refight that war as long as we want to. I always felt like we should have just supplied air and artillery support and let the South Vietnamese do most of the fighting.

If we were going to use US ground forces, we should have used them in North Vietnam and took the initiative away from the communist. You can't win an insurgent war if you allow them to retain the initiative. Another battle should have been fought over here in this country, daily showing the American public what the NVA and VC were doing to civilians.

[trubluolyguy]

So if CNN says hundreds, it was what two guys sitting in lawn chairs holding anti-Bush signs?

[AGreatPer]

We can thank our great hero, Rush Limbaugh, for not helping at all.

Yep, he's a circus act, for himself.

[trubluolyguy]

Ignore my last post....it's been a long day of beer drinking and football watching.

[Morgan's Raider]

When I was a "newbie" someone called me "stupid". I was very insulted. You shall know who to avoid and you will become thick skinned while freeping and you shall have a ball doing it!

My first post came under one of the older formats JimRob had set up where if you didn't close HTML tags at the end of your post they carried over into the next one. So my post came out in something like a 32 point font that was virtually unreadable because whoever was ahead of me didn't close their tags.

Well, I was upset. I barely knew how to turn the computer power on, and this HTML business was totally new to me (I had been working within the safe confines of AOL and their proprietary message boards for about a year). But I caught hell from the Post Police, until somebody figured out what had happened and explained it to me.

Then there was the time I was suspended over a comment that I made about Eleanor Clift, but that's another story. I was in JimRob's doghouse for several weeks over that one, IIRC. And JimRob's doghouse is a really flea-infested place!

[wildcatf4f3]

yeah maybe but I'm glad that I'm both

[Bob J]

The DC Chapter and their partners did a good job on this rally and although the numbers weren't as high as expected, the effort was worthwhile. There was a group of us doing the protest thingy in FR since '98. After the March for Justice (3500), the Judgment Day Rally (800) and the House Managers Rally (400) most of us came to conclusion that calling for large central rallies in DC, NY or LA was never going to get the kind of crowds like the left could generate. Having rallies opposite the left inevitably leads to comparisons by the media leaving us at the mercy of these kinds of headlines. Giving the appearance there is much less support for our position than theirs can backfire from a public relations standpoint since the objective is to create the impression of mass support...not the opposite.

Instead we formed the FR Network and decided to concentrate in having more numerous yet smaller rallies in cities across the US. During both the election debacle in 2000 and the "Rally for America" we had over 200 rallies across the country with crowds between 50 and 5000 and were able to represent attendance at between 100k-200k...the media and the left were never able to touch us with those numbers.

Unfortunately, FR infighting has left too many of the troops tired and demoralized and most of that crew has gone on to work in areas other than direct protest. Too bad.