Posted on 05/18/2007 11:33:39 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Protesters, Monkey Rally on Iraq War Outside Harry Reid's Las Vegas Office
Friday , May 18, 2007
AP
LAS VEGAS Protesters on both sides of the Iraq war debate rallied Thursday outside Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's district office, where Reid supporters waved American flags and his opponents gathered around a trained monkey dressed in fatigues and holding a white flag.
"That's what they are cheese-eating surrender monkeys," said Steven Saul, a conservative talk show host in Las Vegas, referring to a label for Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., popular with conservative pundits.
The protest of about a dozen people and a "surrender monkey" named Hobo was organized by the Sacramento-based Move America Forward, a group of military families and administration supporters dedicated to countering anti-war activism.
Democrats also gathered outside Reid's office at the federal courthouse in downtown Las Vegas to defend congressional Democrats' attempts to impose restrictions on the war as part of a military funding bill. The Nevada senator was in Washington, D.C.
Christopher Gallagher, who spent 18 months in Iraq serving in the Marines, said Democrats ought to be given a chance to change the course of a war that has been mismanaged.
"I think Harry Reid has the troops' best interest in mind," Gallagher, 24, said. "I'm not saying we need to pull out. I'm just saying we need to look at things differently and readjust the situation."
The rallies came as Reid and White House aides met in Washington to try to avoid a showdown over the war funding bill. Both sides have said they're searching for compromise. Reid said Thursday that he did not intend to give the White House "a blank check."
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Thursday? He says this everytime some hack sticks a mic in his fac e.
REiD is deranged.
Bad monkey!
Harry Reid’s staff will like to spank the monkey- yes?
Is that a picture of the particular monkey in question?
The red ass is a nice touch.
ROFL!
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Lots of news today on the effort to uproot al Qaeda from its last, large stronghold in Diyala Province, Iraq. The terrorists tried to attack a US position in Baquoba, the capitol city of Diyala and the so-called capitol of al Qaeda modern Caliphate:
About 50 suspected insurgents attacked a U.S. base in the center of a city north of the capital Friday, sparking a battle with U.S. soldiers and helicopters that killed at least six militants, the Iraqi army said.
At 7 a.m. Friday, the day of rest in mostly Muslim Iraq, about 50 suspected insurgents opened fire on a U.S.-Iraqi base in downtown Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, wounding two Iraqi soldiers, an Iraqi army officer said.
U.S. forces and helicopters responded at 7:30 a.m., killing at least six insurgents, the Iraqi army officer said on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to speak to the media.
Is it a macaca?
No, “macacas” are democrat protesters :-)
I am getting sick of hearing this. The President is CinC, not the Congress. How has the war been mismanaged? W has not tried to run it from the WH, like LBJ did Vietnam.
In war, mistakes can be made. Name one time when they have NOT been made. That does not mean the war has been 'mismanaged'. I sure do not want the dims in charge.
Reid supporters waved American flagsSee, they're willing to try anything once.
That is really the problem. The left has learned to play the symbols game without the substance. It works for a while and fools the people short-term. Eventually, they get the point - especially if we help show the way.
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