Posted on 11/07/2005 7:21:58 PM PST by Mr. Silverback
As you probably know, IED stands for “Improvised Explosive Device,” and it means any homemade bomb. A lot of the tactical creativity on both sides in Iraq revolves around the IEDs. The soldiers work on ways to detect or survive them, and the jihadis work out new ways to hide them. They’ve stuck bombs in dead dogs, hid them in curbs or buried them under streets, a whole bag of tricks. In each, concealment is key.
So, until recently, no one had ever deployed a hot pink IED, but now we have them in Washington, DC.
Each Friday night, members of “Code Pink” hold an anti-war protest at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, featuring signs with slogans like “Maimed for a lie” and “Enlist here and die for Halliburton,” and occasionally some flag-draped coffins. Choosing to do the no-blood-for-oil barking moonbat boogie mere yards from the beds of our wounded is despicable enough, but it gets worse. Walter Reed has a program that allows some of the soldiers to spend Friday night out at a steakhouse, and the protests are timed so that the troops will see them from the transport bus. The Code Pinkos aren’t protesting about wounded soldiers, they’re protesting at wounded soldiers. Kevin Pannell, who lost two legs in a grenade attack in Iraq, points out that many of the wounded suffer from survivor’s guilt, and the coffins are a painful reminder. Torturing wounded veterans? Just another Friday night for Code Pink.
John Gibson of Fox News described his conversation with one soldier this way: “I was doing Tony Snow's radio show Thursday and one soldier about to go back to Iraq said these protestors are America’s IEDs, roadside bombs set to go off and injure a soldier here just as certainly as IEDs in Baghdad are set to go off and blow off a soldier’s leg over there.”
And this activity is hardly an aberration. Code Pink recommends that protesters visit recruiting centers with signs calling troops “killers.” Their leadership is on record supporting the Iraqi “resistance”--you know, the guys who call themselves “Al-Qaeda in Iraq.” Perhaps most incredibly, they sent a “gift” of $600,000 dollars to “the other side” (their words, not mine) in Fallujah before the Marines went in. Supposedly it was meant to purchase medical supplies. Yes, I’m sure the terrorists followed all the rules!
Code Pink is also helping out the media’s latest darling, Cindy Sheehan. This came to light when Mark Matthews, a reporter for KGO TV in San Francisco looked into the funding sources for the growing Sheehan circus. As Matthews said in his report, “There is real reluctance to talk about who's paying, and the P.R. machine that's promoting Cindy Sheehan…” Matthews found that Sheehan’s background support consisted of four main radical organizations: Code Pink, True Majority, MoveOn.org and Democracy for America, the “progressive” group born out of Howard Dean’s presidential campaign and run by his brother James. It’s nice to know that the current DNC chair shares a common vision with people who mock men who shed blood for our country.
I know there are people who really do mean it when they say they support the troops but oppose the war. But folks, it’s time for a gut check. The anti-war movement is headed by people who don’t share those values. When they see a wounded soldier or a grieving mother, they either see a target, or a potential mouthpiece. They don’t just want the war to stop; they want us to lose it. When they see this country, they don’t see the land of the free and think “the Iraq thing is a bad idea,” they see the Fourth Reich, and they are glad to support the “resistance” killing our troops…and Iraqi troops…and Iraqi cops…and Iraqi kids getting a candy handout or riding the bus to school. They might even, as Sheehan has, call them “freedom fighters.”
Being an honestly patriotic member of the anti-war movement today is like going to Selma to march with Dr. King and finding out that the Klan will be at the front of the march, organizing the march, and giving most of the speeches.
No wonder there’s a backlash building. Code Pink was outnumbered four to one by counterprotesters last Friday night, and the soldiers on the bus never fail to salute the protesters with one finger. A pro-troop rally in Crawford on Saturday brought in at least 3,000 enthusiastic people, some of whom drove all the way from San Francisco. When the neo-hippies say “no more Vietnams,” they should listen to themselves more closely, because we aren’t having a rehash of their mistreatment of the Vietnam vets. They can keep their spit—and their roadside bombs—to themselves.
Thank you!
Yeah, I've been itching to use it in a sign.
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Go for it!
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