Yesterday was the second anniversary of the beginning of the War in Iraq. Approximately 3,000 war protesters decided to show their "support for the troops" by having an anti-war protest through the streets of Fayetteville, NC, home of Ft. Bragg. For those of you that are not aware, Ft. Bragg is the home of the 82d Airborne Division, 18th Airborne Corps, 3d and 7th Special Forces Groups, Delta Force and other assorted Special Warfare and conventional army units, the bulk of which have served at least one tour in Iraq in addition to Afghanistan.
The protesters decision to protest in Fayetteville, Camp Pendleton, the major Marine Corps base in Southern California, as well as in San Diego near a major naval base is a curious and disgusting one (See more on the San Diego protest at Citizen Smash). If you support the troops, why protest at their home bases and communities where they and their families live? All that is going to do is hurt the morale and undermine the spirit of our troops and their families, who have no choice but to go where they are ordered. The headline in this story of the protest in the Raleigh News and Observer says is all, "Observance Stirs Pain." If you want the war ended, protest in Washington DC or other major cities. However, do not feed me this bullshit that you care about our troops as you march past the front gates of the bases that house them and tell them that they are fighting the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time. It is not as if they have a choice. This is the same crap that my father had to put up with when he returned from Vietnam.
Not surprisingly, these protesters refuse to acknowledge that freeing the Iraqi people from a murderer is a good thing. They refuse to acknowledge the success of the recent elections or that this has unleashed the pent-up desire for freedom among the oppressed and disenfranchised people of the Middle East, something that could prevent future terroism. They would rather have Saddam Hussein in power, which tells us a lot about them. Many still think it is all about oil. Of course if that was the case, then we would not have to have troops throughout the country, we could put them in the oil fields, along the pipelines and at the shipping points and let the country rot as I have pointed out before. And if the War was about the oil, why does it cost me so much for a gallon of gas? Given that we have not taken over the Iraqi oil and we are paying through the nose for gasoline, that argument does not pass the common sense test. Not that these idiots have any arguments that make sense as logic has never been the strong suit of protesting Leftists. And why protest now that the war is essentially over in terms of major clashes and the bulk of the action is engaging enemies of a free Iraq killing innocent Iraqis while we help them set up the infrastructure to run their own country? (Side Note: The Left is scared to death that Conservative Christians in this country are out to set up a theocracy and crush their freedoms but do not worry about terrorist groups like Al Qaeda that really do want to set up a Taliban-like theocracy in Iraq). Instead of celebrating that fact that we have freed over 20 million people, they would rather demean and denigrate the horror of the deaths of over six million Jews by comparing President Bush to Hitler. News flash, if Bush was Hitler, Hussein, Stalin or Castro you would all be locked up or dead so shitcan the hyperbole and get some perspective!
Anyway, here are some photos from the Fayetteville Observer. Note the only person causing trouble is the "Peace" protester. Seems to be the case that a lot of these protester types are not big on non-violence themselves. If he is so full of fight, let him go to Iraq and put it to good use. He can choose which side he wants to fight for when he gets there!
A Fayetteville police officer escorts a war protester, left, away from a group of counter-demonstrators he had confronted.
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