Gael Murphey
Posted on 10/27/2005 8:46:21 PM PDT by tgslTakoma
Not even bothering to read through articles they post on their website, Code Pink's DC prima donna, Gael Murphy saw an article written by an anti-war Vietnam vet that was titled "The Cost of War at Walter Reed," and thought she had hit pay-dirt.
So she posted it, apparently without reading it first. Big mistake.
The author of the article, Stewart Nusbaumer, writes that he was wounded in Vietnam and spent time at Bethesda Naval Hospital as an amputee recuperating from his very serious wounds; and writes his article from the perspective of one who has been where today's wounded soldiers are.
Click on this link to Code Pink's DC website and read it for yourself. About midway down in the article, read the section titled "The Rules of War." Note well Rule Number Three:
Rule 1: talk to the person and not to the wound. This can be difficult in the beginning since ugly wounds tend to overwhelm. But the bearer of ugly wounds remains much more than a wounded person, and this you need to respect. You can ask about the wound, but you cannot talk to only the wound.
Rule 2: allow wounded soldiers to do what they can do themselves. Give them the space and the opportunity to have control over their lives, even when severely dependent upon other people.
When I was in Bethesda Naval hospital in the late 1960s, leg amputated and bed ridden, frustrated with my constant dependence on others, a visitor asked me for a cigarette - in those days you could smoke right in the hospital - and I was ecstatic to hand him one. It felt great to do something on my own, in this case hand another human being an simple item.
Rule 3: forget your moral questions about the war. Morality is for those who support the war and for those who oppose the war, not for those in the war. Those seriously wounded are still fighting the war so clam up about the immorality of this stupid war.
A corollary to this rule is never protest against a war in front of a military facility, especially a military hospital. That is a no-brainer. You demonstrate against those who made the policy to go to war, not against those who are sworn to carry out the order to go to war.
Rule 4: don't assume this is a sad time for these recuperating men. For most their physical pain is receding or is being managed by drugs, and the true mental anguish has yet to sink in. They are focused on their future which after a close call with death looks darn rosy.
Hey, Gael! Even your fellow travelers think what you are doing at Walter Reed sucks.
LOL Ping!
I take it you've never met Gael?
I love the smell of stupidity in the morning, it smells like Code PINK.
Never have. Looks like I'm missing out.
Actually the group is COLD PINK, Frigid Women For peace
Drats!
I don't have enough spare space on my hard drive to save it!
Gaaa!
I wonder what percent of these women are married and what their husbands are like.
The Communist Party should send her to a Gulag for being so damn stupid, eh?
They're stuck in a quagmire; and Gael is grasping at anything to try and stay "relevant." Unfortunately for her, she didn't do well in reading comprehension.
Consider yourself one of the fortunate ones.
She probably posted it on her site for these paragraphs:
"The tough talking lions of the Bush Administration proclaimed "shock and awe" would destroy the Iraqi will to fight and then it would be a simple "cakewalk." So the cocky civilians unleashed the "mother" of all air assaults on Baghdad and then our strutting commander in chief - decked out in a fine flight suit - proclaimed, "Mission Accomplished."
But the flight-suit President dodged the Vietnam War, hiding in the Air National Guard's "Champagne Unit," strongly supporting the war from Texas. The Vice-President "had other options," although he insisted other Americans had no option but to fight the war. The Secretary of Defense enrolled in Princeton University instead of the Korean War; after the war he enrolled in the Navy. All the hawkish Neocons were too busy arguing for the Vietnam War to actually fight in that war. Shame, they missed their "noble" causes. So when it came to Iraq, none of these men had a clue about the will to fight."
And didn't read it further.
Eeeewwwww ... okay, I went there (yuk) and I saved it. Do I get a star? ;*)
What a great example of "give them enough rope"...
She has hung herself well.
Good find.
The pink font is a nice touch. I'm not sure Gael or her crowd are partial to boners, though.
Thanks for a great ping.
I do care about this author, we care, we respect and we want for this man and all of our wounded and dead, i am at a loss to express what or how i feel, i close my eyes and pray, and wish and want healing for these GOOD men.
I'm sure you'd find out about their husbands, once they're given permission by their wives to talk.
Halloween Day 37 years ago my Cousin (who is more like a brother to me because we grew up in the same house after his father was killed in the Korean War while his mother (my Aunt) was pregnant with him) stepped on a land mine in Vietnam and spent 8 months in a Naval Hospital in Guam, fighting for his life. He returned home to spend 3 more months in Bethesda Naval Hospital and undergo 5 more operations to repair his legs that he still has today.
Our family lived in Silver Spring, MD on Mississippi Ave not far from Bethesda Naval Hospital, one Saturday afternoon my father and I went over to the Hospital to sneak him out and bring him home for the day. There were protesters gathered outside the main entrance of the Hospital chanting "hey hey LBJ how many babies did you kill today" as they waived protest signs that said "Marines are Baby Killers", I cannot express the anger I still feel today for those unwashed hippie leftists that we had to drive around.
Here I was a young kid in a car with my career Army father who worked on the Fuse for the A-Bomb at John Hopkins in the 1940's and then served two tour in Korea, and my Cousin laying in a prone position in the back of our station wagon, it wasn't hard for me to figure out what side of the debate I was on, and many of those same hippies are in Congress today, and John Kerry leads the pack...
Sorry for the rant, but I'm so sick of those communist bastards
Give 'em hell tomorrow nite (ok tonite...) wish I could be there again!
Gael Murphy looks like Robert Redford with glasses and a set of A-cups.
I have noticed in some pix that Gail has a wedding ring on her left hand. Hmmmmm. Ok, I won't go there. Bet that would be some real dicey pillow talk.
I LOVE that disguise!!! I can pick you out of a crowd in DC wearing it. LOL
Ahhh, Oakland, I don't miss it much. I do miss the Pacific, however.
Wish you could be here as well. It's just a short plane ride, dontchaknow.
Be safe as you mingle with the unwashed masses my FRiend.
Now you are a True American.
Hey, Gael! Even your fellow travelers think what you are doing at Walter Reed sucks."
Code Pink is Melting.
She probably assumed that the author was a fellow pinko. Just out of curiousity, do you think he is?
"A corollary to this rule is never protest against a war in front of a military facility, especially a military hospital. That is a no-brainer. You demonstrate against those who made the policy to go to war, not against those who are sworn to carry out the order to go to war."
And this from an anti-war vet no less!!!
Or defending Saddam.
Thanks for sharing Mike. I feel confident you would be able to control yourself with the DC gang. Come on out!
He could be just totally against the war because of what he's seen happen and because of what happened to him also, but I suspect at least a shade of "pink" because of his remarks about the President and Rummy and etc. He could also be a member of VVAW, a group with which Cindy and Gael are aligned.
Print the page, Tiggles!
See if you can enlarge the article to fit on a placard or banner tomorrow night or throughout the weekend!
Jack.
Stewart Nusbaumer appears to have it together.
FReep 27 of Code Pink at Walter Reed, Oct 21 (Heavy graphics, Join us Oct 28!)
DC Chapter ^ | Oct 28, 2005 | BillF, with tgslTakoma, bmwcyle, and Gadsdenman photos
Posted on 10/28/2005 12:45:19 AM PDT by BillF
FReepers from the DC Chapter and beyond have countered Code Pinkos at their weekly obscene anti-war blood dance outside Walter Reed Army Medical Center for over half a year. Despite rain proceeding the event and a heavy mist during most of the FReep, FReepers were out in force again on Friday, Oct. 21. We had one FReeper, who traveled from Texas specifically to attend the FReep, and we had another in town from Arizona. We also were happy to have both Senator Clinton and Karl Rove join us, although BufordP roughed Rove up a bit over the Harriet Miers' nomination and lack of border enforcement. One of the Pinkos' photographers came up close for dueling cameras, whereas another took his shots from a distance.
Code Pink is truly stuck in a quagmire as FReepers severely hinder the Pinkos' cynical attempts to manipulate severely wounded soldiers and relatives in hopes of finding those who will join the anti-war movement and break faith with the troops still fighting a ruthless enemy. Please help us by showing up next Friday night per details below. Stand up against the Pinkos who've endorsed "the Iraqi resistance" (as they call our enemy, see here and here), given money to the other side in Fallujah, and called our troops "killers." Then, the Pinkos demonstrate at the hospital and pretend that they support our troops.
Cindy Sheehan is supposed to be there tonight, this Friday, Oct 28, at 7 pm so please make an extra effort to attend and to arrive early.
CLICK HERE FOR THE REST OF THAT THREAD.
Cindy Sheehan to Defile, Defame and Debase Our Soldiers at Walter Reed Tomorrow - 10/28/05 - 7pm
October 27, 2005
Posted on 10/27/2005 7:53:40 PM PDT by tgslTakoma
For the 28th week in a row, members of the DC Chapter of Free Republic will stand across the street from the gates of Walter Reed Army Medical Center, in Northwest Washington, DC - to show our heartfelt support for our wounded soldiers and their families, to say "Thank you" to them and the medical presonnel who are helping these brave men and women to heal their bodies, minds and spirits, and to say "How Dare You!" to the America-hating members of Code Pink, Veterans for Peace and other heartless leftists as they protest our mission in Iraq, the president, this administration, and even the soldiers who volunteered to defend this great country.
But this week will be a little bit different.
Code Pink has dragged Cindy Sheehan out of mothballs this week to assist in their obscene blood dance, as they celebrate the 2000th death of an American soldier in Iraq. Cindy Sheehan has been in DC this week posing for the adoring MSM cameras, and the news of her "grieving mother" protest has led many news reports, ahead of the very encouraging news from Iraq that the Iraqis had voted to ratify their draft Constitution.
To top off Code Pink's celebratory week, Gael Murphy, Allison Yorra, Medea Benjamin and other enemies of this country have decided to use Cindy Sheehan as a headliner at WRAMC, in a disgusting attempt to prop up their obscene psychological war against our wounded soldiers and their families.
Cindy Sheehan will be at Walter Reed tomorrow. Code Pink plans to "deliver get well cards to the wounded soldiers," at 7pm. And of course, the media will be there, to "capture the emotional moment" when the "grieving mother" tries to enter a secure base.
This is a call to every able-bodied man, woman and child who loves this country and our soldiers:
If you are anywhere within a reasonable driving distance to our nation's capital, please join us. Our soldiers need us to stand up for them. They need to know that Cindy Sheehan, Code Pink and all the rest of the loudmouthed left DO NOT SPEAK FOR US!
If they did she would have plenty of company.
HAH! Hoisted on their own petard, so to speak. Too, too funny!
Same person. You never see them together.
She doesn't look like she's pulled too many boners in her time...
haha, that's so funny! It's still up now.
She's so clueless, it's amazing.
Everytime I see her, all I can think of is Andy Dick.
A bit different around the chin, but otherwise, too close!
2130 on 28 Oct, and it's still flying high!
I really wish I could have been down there tonight.
bttt
Ping
And how does this fit in with the rules liste above? It reads like the writer is straddling the middle.
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