Ted Kennedy Dies!

Hey Charlie, Sean, Jane, and Tim

HERE'S WHAT A REAL STAR LOOKS LIKE!

Kiefer finally got his star! I say, "it's about time!"

Here's What I'm Doing to Get Ready for the Change

Obama says America will change, and I'm gearing up for that change by collecting the following items:

Oh...and I'm building a bomb shelter!

So, I'm prepared for the change that's coming:

Prepare for Nuclear Annihilation!!!

Like the words in the song, "Take your children and yourself and hide out in the cellar, soon the fighting will be close at hand!"

Ahmadinejad Offers Obama Landmark Congratulations

Here's a headline we all expected to see. Of course, he's elated!

If you were alive during the 13 tense days of the Cuban Missile Crisis, this one should be a doozy. When will Imanutjob drop the big one on Israel and the US?

It's anyone's guess at this point, but it will happen!

The New "Big Three"

Can't wait until our new President sits down with our enemies to 'talk'. What WILL they talk about? Hmm...

Hey Sean, Jihad Jane, Tim, Susan, Rosie and Chuckie Sheen, et al

No Caption Necessary!! Case Closed!!

Photo Courtesy of: American Working Together

To Anonymous

This is a message to the dickwad who anonymously commented because I incorrectly listed JFK's birthday as May 17 instead of May 29. It was a mistake, the year is 17, that's what I must have been thinking.

The comment was no doubt left by a person who is frustrated because they are either gay and cannot get married legally, or they have been on welfare forever and are angry that Bush did not sign the children's medical bill which would enable low-lifes like the anonymous poster to live off the government's tit forever while us law-abiding, hard-working citizens pay for what our children receive.

Dickwad, sign your name next time!!!!

The Flying Nut??!!

I don't know about anyone else, but Sally Field came off as a raving lunatic on the Emmmys the other night. I suffered through 3 hours of that program to see Kiefer Sutherland lose to David Spader again. Instead I get to see Sally Field take an award for a show I never heard of, couldn't tell you when it's on, or what part she plays in it.

Maybe Sally "they REALLY like me" Field, should consider cutting her Boniva tablets in half. Perhaps the osteoporosis pill has unusual side effects the FDA didn't warn us about. Maybe it makes her look like a drunken has-been who should get down on her knees and pray to God every day that she still has a career after the laughing stock she made of herself in the sixties as Gidget the Flying Nun. Maybe she should thank God for giving her to opportunity to play a role like Sybil, instead of cursing his name.

Her face was all twisted up like a pretzel, she was babbling like a kook, and she insulted every mother whose son or daughter ever served in the Armed Forces.

What a freak!!

The Emmys never give the awards to the shows with the top ratings. The CSI's never win, are rarely nominated, and they dominate the Nielsen Ratings. Same goes for American Idol. When AI is on 3 nights a week, it's 1, 2, and 3 in the Nielsen Ratings.

I can't say Ms. Field should be excused for her behavior if she's getting Alzheimer's because she isn't THAT old yet, is she?

Save the speeches for yor next Norma Rae role, will ya hon?

Gay and Lesbian Film Fests????!!!!!!

Someone named Patrick McHugh is spamming email boxes with garbage emails about a gay and lesbian film festival at the Philly Fest.

Is he that angry and bitter about who or what he is that he takes it out on others?

Hmmm....

NEW 7 Wonders of the World??!!

It's a wonder anyone gives a crap!

Will Chavez Give Danny Glover Dental Coverage?

While watching the movie, The Shooter, I couldn't help but notice that Danny Glover spoke with an extremely irritating lisp: "The shuspects and weaponsh were confishcated."

With all his dealings with the group trying to free a twice-convicted cop-killer from Philly, and his chumming around with Chavez, you'd think someone else would have noticed that his dentures do not fit properly, or that he has teeth missing.

This is what happens to a washed up actor when Mel Gibson stops doing Lethal Weapons movies. (Check out the flag behind Glover)

Al Gore Jr. Goin' Green

Somehow I don't think this is what papa Gore has in mind for Goin' Green! And I doubt the weed is for medicinal purposes!

Suggestions for Amendment to New Immigration Bill

I only have one thing to say about the proposed Immigration Bill, but first here's what good ol' Rummy Kennedy says about it:

"“The agreement is the best possible chance we will have in years to secure our borders and bring millions of people out of the shadows and into the sunshine of America.”

Would that sunshine of America include Martha's Vineyard? Will Teddy invite the 12 million illegal aliens who will now be legal (quicker than the time it takes to cook minute rice) to any football games at his place on the Vineyard? I THINK NOT!!

Viva la Teddy!

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Also, someone sent this to me a while ago, and I've seen it on the internet now in several places. Here is a solution of hard-working, tax-paying US Citizens who are sick of immigrants living off our Welfare system:


As a natural born US Citizen, and excellent customer of the Internal Revenue Service, I am writing to ask for your assistance. I have contacted the Department of Homeland Security in an effort to determine the process for becoming an illegal alien and they referred me to you.

My primary reason for wishing to change my status from U.S. Citizen to illegal alien stem from the bill which was recently passed by the Senate and for which you voted. If my understanding of this bill’s provisions is accurate, as an illegal alien who has been in the United States for five years, all I need to do to become a citizen is to pay a $2,000 fine and no income taxes for three of the last five years. I know a good deal when I see one and I am anxious to get the process started before everyone figures it out.

Simply put, those of us who have been here legally have had to pay taxes every year so I’m excited about the prospect of avoiding two years of taxes in return for paying a $2,000 fine. Is there any way that I can apply to be illegal retroactively? This would yield an excellent result for me and my family because we paid heavy taxes in 2004 and 2005.

Additionally, as an illegal alien I could begin using the local emergency room as my primary health care provider. Once I have stopped paying premiums for medical insurance, my accountant figures I could save almost $10,000 a year. Another benefit in gaining illegal status would be that my daughter would receive preferential treatment relative to her law school applications, as well as “in-state” tuition rates for many colleges throughout the United States for my son.

Lastly, I understand that illegal status would relieve me of the burden of renewing my driver’s license and making those burdensome car insurance premiums. This is very important to me given that I still have college age children driving my car.

If you would provide me with an outline of the process to become illegal (retroactively if possible) and copies of the necessary forms, I would be most appreciative. Thank you for your assistance.

The Newsom-Christian Murders Al Sharpton Will Never Talk About on the Cable News Networks!

Why aren't Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton "hunting the five animals to their graves", who visciously murdered these two University of Tennessee students? I KNOW WHY, DO YOU?

There is a case that deserved to have more national attention than the lunatic rantings of an exotic dancer who tried to destroy the lives of the Duke LaCrosse players. Ask Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson why they were not all over this one:


Hugh Christopher Newsom, Jr., 23, and Channon Gail Christian, 21, were a couple from Knoxville, Tennessee. They were murdered, and allegedly both the man and woman were raped and tortured after being kidnapped early on the morning of January 7, 2007. Their vehicle had been carjacked.

Five suspects have been arrested and charged in the case. The grand jury has indicted the 5 suspects with a total of 46 counts including torture, murder, and rape.

Read the details of these horrific crimes here:

Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom

Why Aren't Lesbians Outraged At This Disgusting Fat Pig?

I don't know how lesbians think because I am not one myself, but I would think that lesbians would want the world to know that not all of them think as Rosie O'Bloatsey does. I am outraged as a woman about the things that come out of that big fat mouth of hers, on a daily basis. She would have made a good poster child for people against women's lib and against gay rights. People would say:

"This is what you are going to get if you allow women in the media. This is what will happen if you let lesbians host a talk show."

Nobody really cares what she thinks, but most people are angry that the media and the entertainment people are letting a disgusting, big fat slob run her mouth the way she does.

The Department of Child and Family Services should know that Rosie lets her dog lick her child's diaper area to clean it. She also bathes with her children. I think I'm going to puke at that scenario.

I say it's time to barbecue the pig! Shove an apple in her mouth and a size 10 boot up that big fat ass of hers! Look at her! Eck!



To read all of the traitorous things this 'woman' has uttered recently, go here:

The FULL Rosie!

Urgent Message to all Veterans and to our US troops

The following piece of filth is a deliberate attempt to undermine one of our nation's most sacred days commemorating the service and the sacrifice of our veterans. Don't allow this to happen. Speak up about this abomination!




This man is already doing what we, as Americans, should be doing:

Is Today the Day Mumia the Cop-Killer Receives JUSTICE?

Today is May 17th, and many of us I would hope, still remember that it is the birthdate of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

I have not seen that anywhere on the internet today as I go surfing. What I have found is that today has been dubbed Free Mumia Time. This cop-killer has a following of people who, if you put all of their brain cells together, you would be lucky to come away with a FULL-sized brain of that of a human.

Mumia, the cop-killer, is getting is day in court, AGAIN! He is trying to get his death sentence overturned. He was convicted of the murder of Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Faulkner, 24 YEARS AGO!!! And he's still alive and well, and broadcasting a radio show from Death Row. Anyone else see The Green Mile???

I say let's make May 17th the day that brings Mumia, the cop-killer, one step closer to a well-deserved and long overdue date with Ol' Sparky!

Philadelphia's murders climb daily. How can that be made better when people from the city stand outside the courtroom carry signs that read "Free Mumia". They WANT a cop-killer running around the streets of Philadelphia??? What's wrong with this country?

"One Hundred Things You Should Know About Communism" ("Where can Communists be found? Everywhere").

Another Clown Suggests Shutting Down Gitmo

Keep the terrorists at Gitmo:




Or we'll have an even bigger one of these:



The idiots at the Huffington Post, who defend big-head Alec Baldwin, who verbally abused his 11 year old daughter, and Bill Maher, who joked about 9/11 and found humor in the deaths of 1,000's of Americans, has a new article up today.

They are giving us suggestions on how to shut down Gitmo, the facility that is housing terrorists who want the H. Post people dead as much as they want your or I dead. So I decided to add a suggestion of my own:

Close down Gitmo if the terrorists detained there are permitted to move next door to Bill Maher, Alec Baldwin, Charlie Sheen, Jihad Jane, and Sean Penn. Let them be on house arrest and be permitted to travel only within a 3-block radius, just far enough to visit with these 'stars' and have them babysit their kids. Well, Alec won't mind, he thinks his daughter's a "pig" anyway.

That is the only way Gitmo could be shut down. How about it, Hollywood, you already have a man who hacked two people almost to little pieces, walking among you freely, anyway. What do a few extreme islamic militant terrorists matter to the weirdest flakes in the business?

Terrorists at Gitmo and Their Allies: American Traitor-Protesters

No, this is not a photo of the terrorists with ties to al-Qaida and the Taliban, being held at Guantanamo Bay, these are Americans. Well, maybe they're not Americans, but unfortunately, they are in America, protesting the detention of terrorists who wish to destroy the United States.

Can you tell the difference between the the terrorists and the goofballs in this photo? I can't!

Detaining terrorists at Gitmo is necessary to aid in America's fight against terrorism. How do we, as Americans, fight these freaks parading around in orange jumpsuits and black hoods?

Does this scare you? It should!

But just in case it doesn't, here's another photo:



How about these kooks? Don't they look like the boogeyman our parents told us about when we were kids? The difference is that these boogeymen or women, hard to tell which, are all too real.

These KKK lookalikes claim to be "against the war, against the ever-deepening devastation of democracy, against the manufactured State of Emergency in which we live".

These people are roaming around free in America. I'd say that is cause for a State of Emergency and for mass panic, wouldn't you? Scared now?

Even This is Too Much for the Yellow-Bellied Democrats in Congress

Certain headlines really make you stop and think about what is going on in this insane politically correct world we unfortunately now live in.

However, this one caught my eye this morning, "Democrats Not Backing Down on Iraq Bill". As if that wasn't bad enough, within the article I read the following about Rep. David Obey, D-WI: He suggests that the House guarantee funding of the war only through July. The bill would provide additional money after that point, but give Congress a chance to deny those funds be used if the Iraqi government does not meet certain benchmarks.

Unbelievable! Members of Congress are suggesting we 'deny funds to the US Military'!! What is going on? Is everyone in Congress snorting crack? What are they thinking? Weren't people 'executed at dawn' for this kind of mindset during times of war for the United States? I am frightened for my family. How long can we last if this behavior is allowed to continue?

Then Hillary Clinton, a woman who couldn't even keep her husband 'home on the range', if you know what I mean, says that she wants to, "proposed a measure to repeal the 2002 resolution authorizing force in Iraq. Under the bill, Bush would be required in October to seek Congress' blessing to continue operations in Iraq.

Clinton then goes on to say, "If the president will not bring himself to accept reality, it is time for Congress to bring reality to him," said Clinton, a presidential contender for 2008.

Do we want to give an emotionally unstable woman, scorned by an adulterous husband, that much power over our nation? God, I hope not!

I am having trouble forming the words to write this because it is so outrageous. People elected to the U.S. Congress should not be working against our country. They should not be finding ways to embolden our enemies on a daily basis. This should not be happening in America!!!

While watching a program called, Target America, someone in the United States during WWII said, "The enemy is grateful for the smallest scrap of information."

How much information is Pelosi and her traitorous komrades in Congress giving to Iran, North Korea, and the terrorists in Afghanistan and Iran? Plenty!

These are dangerous times we live in and we should be very aware of what is going on around us. We should not permit Congress to speak for all Americans, and tell our enemies that "We've Caved!"

LAPD Need to Learn Spanish to Prevent Immigrants From Breaking the Law

Well, now I've heard everything!

By now, I'm sure you have seen the videotape and photos of the LAPD "wielding batons and firing rubber bullets" on demonstrators at an immigration rally.

As if this wasn't bad enough, I read this statement regarding the incident:

"A police order to disperse was in English and from a police helicopter, a likely ineffective tactic because of the noise and because many at the protest were Spanish-speakers."

So, let me understand what this statement actually means. If you don't understand English, you cannot be held accountable for a crime you may be committing, or may about to commit, is that right?

How outrageous is that? They didn't understand??!!

Before you start demanding for the police officers' heads on a platter, consider the following information:

Crime for the month of April 2007 in Los Angeles CA

Homicide 32
Rape 73
Robbery 1006
Aggravated Assault 1002

Burglary 1316
Personal/Other Theft 1777
Child/Spousal Abuse 1316
Shots Fired 365
Shooting Victims 150
Total 9203

49.33% of the people in Los Angeles, CA, claim hispanic ethnicity

Now, if you were a member of the LAPD department being confronted by an angry mob of demonstrators representing half of the total number of people who reside in the city of Los Angeles, what would you do to defend yourself?

Oh, so because the laws are written in English, Spanish-speaking residents of LA, or half the people who live there, do not understand that it is against the law to kill, rob, steal, beat your children, is that right? So, what, they should be allowed to do whatever they want?


1,316 incidents of domestic abuse in the month of April alone. If these people are willing to beat up on women and children in their own family, what could they have done to cause the LAPD to react in the way that they did?

I know exactly what it was. The police officers were defending themselves and preventing the angry mob of illegal alien protesters from inflicting harm upon others. THAT'S what they were doing!

If I were a law-abiding, natural-born or LEGAL citizen of the city of Los Angeles, CA, I would be afraid. I would be very afraid! I would also be packing my bags and moving out of that cesspool!

What would you do if this mob was headed in your direction?



Not scared yet? Check out these two websites!! Look Out! Here they come!

Mexica Movement

Wake Up America!
Be sure not to skip the intro at this site!

Click the banner for a real eye-opener!

AntiWar Traitors Spray Paint Steps of the Capitol Building

Hack Reporters Claim No War Memorials Threatened

This is in response to an overabundance of hack reporters claiming that Vietnam Veterans started malicious rumors about antiwar traitors desecrating memorials. Here's the real story:

The Following Handiwork Brought To You By Anti-American, Anti-War Traitors!

Here is a sample of the handiwork done by those who claim they would never deface war memorials.
These photos and the articles say it all. Follow the links and see for yourself. No words necessary, except to say,

"Do this in countries where the terrorists you defend live, and see how long you get to keep your head attached to your body."


"Veterans Memorial Repair Still Not Complete"




9/11 Memorial Permanently Damaged by Vandals




Pieces of 9/11 Memorial Stolen Multiple Times







Indianapolis Medal of Honor Memorial Vandalized



Irving, TX War Memorial Vandalized

Here are a few more acts of vandalism against war memorials around the country. ANSWER Coalition supporters have been leaving comments everywhere saying: "We would never deface memorials!" Yeah, right!

Philadelphia Inquirer - May 28, 1996 Vandals Hit City Vietnam Memorial-The Monument Has Been Defaced Several Times. "I'm Sickened, I Was Kind of Exasperated to Think That Someone Would Do Something Like This", One Veteran Said.

The Philadelphia Vietnam Veterans Memorial was defaced yesterday. Again. Vandals darkened part of the monument's granite walls, marking at least the fourth time the memorial has been soiled since its opening in October 1987. The vandals struck early on the day most sacred to veterans, who did not discover the damage until yesterday morning - during preparations for a Memorial Day ceremony.

Philadelphia Inquirer - May 4, 1988
The Vietnam Memorial Is Defaced

The Vietnam Veterans Memorial has been defaced with several scratches including one resembling a swastika, according to National Park Service officials. This is the first time the memorial has been damaged since it opened in 1982, they said. The 493-foot-long black granite wall, inscribed with the names of more than 58,000 service personnel who were killed in the Southeast Asian conflict, has become the most visited monument in the capital.

And The Hits Just Keep On Comin'!

Afghan War Memorial Defaced with Anti War Slogans

National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific Vandalized

"Canada Day" Rally Vandals Urinate on Veterans Memorial While Crowd Cheers

Peace protesters throw objects at recruitment office windows, Jan 27, 2007 in Washington DC

Another Video of the 'peace' Protesters

Anti War Protestors Spray Paint Capitol Steps as Police Ordered to Stand Down!(lead by the same organizations hosting the 3/17 rally)

January 25, 1995 New York Times, "Veterans' Memorial on L.I. Vandalized."

December 1, 2006, "Veterans Cemetery in Fernley, NV Vandalized."

March 31, 2003, California "American Legion in Raising Funds To Replace Vandalized Memorial "

April 4, 2004, San Marcos, Texas "Vandals Deface Veterans Memorial"

Joan Baez Banned at Walter Reed Hospital

Yah! Score one for our side!

When anti-war has-been Joan Baez found out that she wasn't approved by the Army to perform at Walter Reed, she said, ""I realize now that I might have contributed to a better welcome home for those soldiers fresh from Vietnam."

She also said, ""There might have been one, there might have been 50 (soldiers) that thought I was a traitor,"

No, Joan, you're wrong. ALL Vietnam Veterans think you're a traitor! And so do I!

Go home and take care of your grand-children and stop acting like an overgrown communist hippie! We've got Jihad Jane for that! We don't need you, too!

Here's the traitor at the 1967 Anti Vietnam War Protest in San Francisco:




And here she is again doing a concert in the middle of a cemetery for war heroes:



Cindy Sheehan is in the photo with her. Wonder if Joan was trying to help Cindy locate her son's grave. Since Sheenhan's son's grave is unmarked because his money was used for Cindy's communist agenda with the ANSWER Coalition, it was probably tough to find.

How disgusting can inbred low-life trailer trash get? Pretty disgusting, apparently, even in old age! Way to go Joan!

Democrat Debate 'Victory For Iraqi Insurgents'!

Terrorists Say Anti-War Statements Moment of Glory For Global 'Resistance Movements'

"We see Hillary (Clinton) and other candidates are competing on who will withdraw from Iraq and who is guilty of supporting the Iraqi invasion. This is a moment of glory for the revolutionary movements in the Arab world in general and for the Iraqi resistance movement specifically," said Abu Jihad, one of the overall leaders of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terror organization.

"I think democrats will do good if they will withdraw as soon as they are in power," he said.

Want to see what will happen if we elect a female president? Read the rest of the story here:

WorldNet Daily

It isn't like we didn't know this was coming. Better start duct-taping plastic to your windows again!

And the Award Goes To...

courtesy of cafepress.com

Well, look what big-head's gotten himself into now!
What a 'thoughtless, rude, little pig' he is!

History Lesson for Traitor Pelosi

Look at what happened when we withdrew from Vietnam:

Timeline of U.S. Pullout of the Vietnam War

January 27, 1973

All warring parties in the Vietnam War sign a cease fire.

March 1973

The last American combat soldiers leave South Vietnam, though military advisors and Marines, who are protecting U.S. installations, remain. For the United States, the war is officially over.

January 1974

Though they are still too weak to launch a full-scale offensive, the North Vietnamese have rebuilt their divisions in the South, and have captured key areas.


December 26, 1974

The 7th North Vietnamese Army division captures Dong Xoai.


January 6, 1975

In a disastrous loss for the South Vietnamese, the NVA take Phuoc Long city and the surrounding province.

March 1, 1975

A powerful NVA offensive is unleashed in the Central Highlands of South Vietnam. The resulting South Vietnamese retreat is chaotic and costly, with nearly 60,000 troops dead or missing.

During March

Another NVA offensive sends 100,000 soldiers against the major cities of Quang Tri, Hue and Da Nang. Backed by powerful armored forces and eight full regiments of artillery, they quickly succeed in capturing Quang Tri province.

March 25, 1975

Hue, South Vietnam's third largest city, falls to the North Vietnamese Army.

Early April 1975

Five weeks into its campaign, the North Vietnamese Army has made stunning gains. Twelve provinces and more than eight million people are under its control. The South Vietnamese Army has lost its best units, over a third of its men, and almost half its weapons.

April 30, 1975

At 4:03 a.m., two U.S. Marines are killed in a rocket attack at Saigon's Tan Son Nhut airport. They are the last Americans to die in the Vietnam War. At dawn, the last Marines of the force guarding the U.S. embassy lift off. Only hours later, looters ransack the embassy, and North Vietnamese tanks role into Saigon, ending the war. In 15 years, nearly a million NVA and Vietcong troops and a quarter of a million South Vietnamese soldiers have died. Hundreds of thousands of civilians had been killed.

What do you think will happen when Pelosi pulls our troops out of Iraq? And remember, Iran has nuclear weapon capability. America was attacked on 9/11 by terrorists. Insurgents in Iraq will not go quietly into that good night.

Speaking of good night, I fear that is what America will be saying once we withdrawal our troops out of Iraq. We are heading for disasters worse than Pearl Harbor and September 11th combined.

Murder or Right to Privacy?

In 2005, Nancy Pelosi made the following statements:

"Roe vs. Wade is based on a woman's fundamental right to privacy, a value that all Americans cherish. It established that decisions about whether to have a child do not and should not rest with the government. A woman -- in consultation with her family, her physician, and her faith -- is best qualified to make that decision."

Hey Nancy, murder is not a right to privacy. Why don't women try abstaining from sex instead of thinking, "Oh, well, if I end up pregnant, I'll just abort it! It's my right, isn't it?"

Then again it's two bad the moms of these two butches didn't have that option!

FAMOUS LAST WORDS!!

"I BELIEVE...THAT THIS WAR IS LOST, AND THIS SURGE IS NOT ACCOMPLISHING ANYTHING, AS SHOWN BY THE EXTREME VIOLENCE IN IRAQ THIS WEEK.”
---HARRY REID (DEM - NV) 4/19/07

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE FOR TODAY'S WORLD

Sixty-three years ago, Nazi Germany had overrun almost all of Europe and hammered England to the verge of bankruptcy and defeat. The Nazis had sunk more than 400 British ships in their convoys between England and America taking food and war materials .

At that time the US was in an isolationist, pacifist mood, and most Americans wanted nothing to do with the European or the Asian war .

Then along came Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 , and in outrage Congress unanimously declared war on Japan, and the following day on Germany who had not yet attacked us . It was a dicey thing . We had few allies .

France was not an ally, as the Vichy government of France quickly aligned itself with its German occupiers . Germany was certainly not an ally, as Hitler was intent on setting up a Thousand Year Reich in Europe. Japan was not an ally, as it was well on its way to owning and controlling all of Asia.

Together, Japan and Germany had long-range plans of invading Canada and Mexico, as launching pads to get into the United States over our northern and southern borders, after they finished gaining control of Asia and Europe.

America 'S only allies then were England, Ireland, Scotland, Canada, Australia, and Russia . That was about it. All of Europe, from Norway to Italy (except Russia in the East) was already under the Nazi heel.

The US was certainly not prepared for war. The US had drastically downgraded most of its military forces after WW I because of the depression, so that at the outbreak of WW II, Army units were training with broomsticks because they didn't have guns, and cars with "tank" painted on the doors because they didn't have real tanks A huge chunk of our Navy had just been sunk or damaged at Pearl Harbor.

Britain had already gone bankrupt, saved only by the donation of $600 million in gold bullion in the Bank of England (that was actually the property of Belgium ) given by Belgium to England to carry on the war when Belgium was overrun by Hitler (a little known fact).

Actually, Belgium surrendered on one day, because it was unable to oppose the German invasion, and the Germans bombed Brussels into rubble the next day just to prove they could .

Britain had already been holding out for two years in the face of staggering losses and the near decimation of its Royal Air Force in the Battle of Britain, and was saved from being overrun by Germany only because Hitler made the mistake of thinking the Brits were a relatively minor threat that could be dealt with later. Hitler first turned his attention to Russia, in the late summer of 1940 at a time when England was on the verge of collapse.

Ironically, Russia saved America's butt by putting up a desperate fight for two years, until the US got geared up to begin hammering away at Germany .

Russia lost something like 24,000,000 people in the sieges of Stalingrad and Moscow alone . . . 90% of them from cold and starvation, mostly civilians, but also more than a 1,000,000 soldiers.

Had Russia surrendered, Hitler would have been able to focus his entire war effort against the Brits, then America. If that had happened, the Nazis could possibly have won the war .

All of this has been brought out to illustrate that turning points in history are often dicey things. Now, we find ourselves at another one of those key moments in history.

There is a very dangerous minority in Islam that either has, or wants, and may soon have, the ability to deliver small nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons, almost anywhere in the world .

The Jihadis, the militant Muslims, are basically Nazis in Kaffiyahs -- they believe that Islam, a radically conservative form of Wahhabi Islam, should own and control the Middle East first, then Europe, then the world. To them, all who do not bow to their will of thinking should be killed, enslaved, or subjugated . They want to finish the Holocaust, destroy Israel, and purge the world of Jews. This is their mantra (goal).

There is also a civil war raging in the Middle East -- for the most part not a hot war, but a war of ideas. Islam is having its Inquisition and its Reformation, but it is not yet known which side will win -- the Inquisitors, or the Reformationists.

If the Inquisition wins, then the Wahhabis, the Jihadis, will control the Middle East, the OPEC oil, and the US , European, and Asian economies.

The techno-industrial economies will be at the mercy of OPEC -- not an OPEC dominated by the educated, rational Saudis of today, but an OPEC dominated by the Jihadis. Do you want gas in your car? Do you want heating oil next winter? Do you want the dollar to be worth anything? You had better hope the Jihad, the Muslim Inquisition, loses, and the Islamic Reformation wins.

If the Reformation movement wins, that is, the moderate Muslims who believe that Islam can respect and tolerate other religions, live in peace with the rest of the world, and move out of the 10th century into the 21st, then the troubles in the Middle East will eventually fade away. A moderate and prosperous Middle East will emerge.

We have to help the Reformation win, and to do that we have to fight the Inquisition, i.e., the Wahhabi movement, the Jihad, Al Qaeda and the Islamic terrorist movements. We have to do it somewhere. We can't do it everywhere at once. We have created a focal point for the battle at a time and place of our choosing . . . . . . in Iraq. Not in New York, not in London, or Paris or Berlin, but in Iraq, where we are doing two important things.

(1) We deposed Saddam Hussein. Whether Saddam Hussein was directly involved in the 9/11 terrorist attack or not, it is undisputed that Saddam has been actively supporting the terrorist movement for decades Saddam is a terrorist! Saddam is, or was, a weapon of mass destruction, responsible for the deaths of probably more than a 1,000,000 Iraqis and 2,000,000 Iranians .

(2) We created a battle, a confrontation, a flash point, with Islamic terrorism in Iraq. We have focused the battle. We are killing bad people, and the ones we get there we won't have to get here. We also have a good shot at creating a democratic, peaceful Iraq, which will be a catalyst for democratic change in the rest of the Middle East, and an outpost for a stabilizing American military presence in the Middle East for as long as it is needed .

WW II, the war with the Japanese and German Nazis, really began with a "whimper" in 1928. It did not begin with Pearl Harbor. It began with the Japanese invasion of China. It was a war for fourteen years before the US joined it. It officially ended in 1945 -- a 17 year war -- and was followed by another decade of US occupation in Germany and Japan to get those countries reconstructed and running on their own again . . . a 27 year war.

WW II cost the United States an amount equal to approximately a full year's GDP -- adjusted for inflation, equal to about $12 trillion dollars. WW II cost America more than 400,000 soldiers killed in action, and nearly 100,000 still missing in action.

The Iraq war has, so far, cost the United States about $160,000,000,000, which is roughly what the 9/11 terrorist attack cost New York. It has also cost about 3,000 American lives, which is roughly equivilant to lives that the Jihad killed (within the United States) in the 9/11 terrorist attack .

The cost of not fighting and winning WW II would have been unimaginably greater -- a world dominated by Japanese Imperialism and German Nazism .

This is not a 60-Minutes TV show, or a 2-hour movie in which everything comes out okay . The real world is not like that. It is messy, uncertain, and sometimes bloody and ugly. It always has been, and probably always will be .

The bottom line is that we will have to deal with Islamic terrorism until we defeat it, whenever that is. It will not go away if we ignore it .

If the US can create a reasonably democratic and stable Iraq, then we have an ally, like England, in the Middle East, a platform from which we can work to help modernize and moderate the Middle East. The history of the world is the clash between the forces of relative civility and civilization, and the barbarians clamoring at the gates to conquer the world.

The Iraq War is merely another battle in this ancient and never ending war. Now, for the first time ever, the barbarians are about to get nuclear weapons -- unless some body prevents them from getting them.

We have four options:

1 . We can defeat the Jihad now, before it gets nuclear weapons.

2 . We can fight the Jihad later, after it gets nuclear weapons (which may be as early as next year, if Iran 's progress on nuclear weapons is what Iran claims it is).

3 . We can surrender to the Jihad and accept its dominance in the Middle East now; in Europe in the next few years or decades, and ultimately in America.

OR

4 . We can stand down now, and pick up the fight later when the Jihad is more widespread and better armed, perhaps after the Jihad has dominated France and Germany and possibly most of the rest of Europe. It will, of course, be more dangerous, more expensive, and much bloodier.

If you oppose this war, I hope you like the idea that your children, or grandchildren, may live in an Islamic America under the Mullahs and the Sharia, an America that resembles Iran today.

The history of the world is the history of civilization clashes, cultural clashes. All wars are about ideas, ideas about what society and civilization should be like, and the most determined always win.

Those who are willing to be the most ruthless always win . The pacifists always lose, because the anti-pacifists kill them .

Remember, perspective is everything, and America 's schools teach too little history for perspective to be clear, especially in the young American mind.

The Cold War lasted from about 1947 at least until the Berlin Wall came down in 1989; forty-two years!

Europe spent the first half of the 19th century fighting Napoleon, and from 1870 to 1945 fighting Germany !

World War II began in 1928, lasted 17 years, plus a ten year occupation, and the US still has troops in Germany and Japan. World War II resulted in the death of more than 50,000,000 people, maybe more than 100,000,000 people, depending on which estimates you accept.

The US has taken more than 3,000 killed in action in Iraq. The US took more than 4,000 killed in action on the morning of June 6, 1944, the first day of the Normandy Invasion to rid Europe of Nazi Imperialism.

In WW II the US averaged 2,000 KIA a week -- for four years. Most of the individual battles of WW II lost more Americans than the entire Iraq war has done so far .

The stakes are at least as high; a world dominated by representative governments with civil rights, human rights and personal freedoms . . or a world dominated by a radical Islamic Wahhabi movement, by the Jihad, under the Mullahs and the Sharia (Islamic law) .

It's difficult to understand why the average American does not grasp this. They favor human rights, civil rights, liberty and freedom, but evidently not for Iraqis.

"Peace Activists" always seem to demonstrate here in America where it's safe.

Why don't we see Peace Activists demonstrating in Iran, Syria, Iraq, Sudan, North Korea, in the places that really need peace activism the most? I'll tell you why! They would be killed!

The liberal mentality is supposed to favor human rights, civil rights, democracy, multiculturalism, diversity, etc., but if the Jihad wins, wherever the Jihad wins, it is the end of civil rights, human rights, democracy, multiculturalism, diversity, etc.

Americans who oppose the liberation of Iraq are coming down on the
side of their own worst enemy!

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Raymond S. Kraft is a writer living in Northern California that has studied the Middle Eastern culture and religion in great detail.

This is Why Pro-Troops' People Get No Media Coverage

In the Cumberland Times-News, Cumberland, MD, a columnist named Richcard Kerns wrote an article entitled, "

In Washington, a stain on sacred ground (note the use of lowercase letters in title)

In this article, Mr. Richard Kerns compared Vietnam Veterans and those who support our troops in Iraq, to "raw sewage". He also called many of the Gathering of Eagles members who went to Washington DC on March 17, 2007 to oppose the World Worker's Party's 'march on the pentagon', 'flag-wavers, chest-pounders, with bird-flipping passion'.

This clown uses contractions in his writing, which goes to show that this man is no more a writer than I am an " enraged counter-demonstrator".

Mr. Kerns and the Cumberland Times-News has once again, disrespected and dishonored our Vietnam Veterans, same as the protesters did back in the '60's. The disabled Vietnam Veterans in wheelchairs, who thanked those like myself, who never served, for showing up in DC to show my support for them.

Mr. Kerns rehashed the rhetoric that the communist-backed A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition shrieks as they taunt injured veterans entering and leaving VA hospitals. Mr. Kerns might as well have been the one holding the match in this photo:

Kick the C.A.N!

There is never a lack of material when you are dealing with leftards and moonbats. Before I finished the outline of a new website I'm doing, I found a doozy, courtesy of something called the Colombia Action Network, or C.A.N., for short.

You might ask, as do I, why an organization with Colombia in the title should bother me as an American. The reason is simple; this group is not in COLOMBIA, they are in, that's right, AMERICA! And take a look at what these nutjobs are doing.

First of all, I was alerted to this radicals because they will be attending the Coast Guard Academy's graduation ceremony. They won't be there because they have a family member graduating. They will be there because they plan to protest the commencement speaker, the President of the U.S., George W. Bush. How would you feel if your son or daughter were graduating, and you had a pack of Colombians screaming obscenities the entire time? It turns my stomach. I read further into some of the things these freaks are doing and found this:

They are boycotting Coca-cola, of all things!. Coca-cola is my preferred beverage. I've been drinking it since I was a teen, but the boycott doesn't bother me as much as this statement does:

"Boycotting, a weapon of struggle used by poor Irish peasants against British Imperialist landlords, has an honorable history in the U.S."

I'm assuming that because they are Colombian, English is their 'second' language, if they bothered to learn it at all, so maybe they misunderstood the part about the Irish and the British. I'm sending an email off to them to explain. It will be short and sweet, and it will go something like this:

"THE BOYCOTT YOU MENTIONED BY THE "POOR IRISH PEASANTS", DID NOT HAPPEN IN THE UNITED STATES! THIS OCCURRED IN IRELAND!

After I give them a history lesson, I will then tell them that they should not compare their commie propaganda to anything the Irish has done, or will do. Comparing their agenda to the struggle of my descendants is a slap in the face!

Hey, Sharpton, you busy wiping out filthy language in rap songs. or do you have a minute to help? There is a bunch of Colombians slandering my Irish descendants by comparing themselves to them! Can you do anything? How about you Jesse? Nothing?! No, I didn't think so.

I can only battle with words, so if the history lesson does not sink in, here's the next thing I'll tell them: MY Irish ancestors came to America to escape death from starvation when their major crop, potatoes, went sour and there was no food to eat. America welcomed my ancestors, as is STILL doing, God help us all!! The biggest and most important difference is that MY Irish descendants came to America and helped to build it.

We helped to build the railroads you stupid protesters drag your asses on to ride around the country and degrade and dishonor the country MY Irish ancestors helped to build. We did not get a free ride. We worked. We did not get free medical, we paid for it. We did not get free food, we bought it with the money we earned when we worked. Get it? You don't get it? Then how about this: Get Out, out of my country!


Have a Coke! Deport the C.A.N!

Look at this Cutey-Pie!

Members of the commie organization, A.N.S.W.E.R., had a march on the Pentagon and these sweatshirts were worn by many:

On the chance that you don't know who the cutey-pie on the sweatshirt is, his name is:

Che Guevara!

And here is what he was all about:

He played a key role in bringing to Cuba the Soviet nuclear-armed ballistic missiles that precipitated the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962. During an interview with a newspaper a few weeks after the Cuban Missile Crise, Guevara stated that, "if the missiles had been under Cuban control, they would have fired them against major U.S. cities."

Now, explain to me why people who idolize a man who wants to murder United States citizens, are permitted to go anywhere near our Pentagon.

What is wrong with this picture?

They're Leftards, But They've Got Big Ones!

Check out this guy! He's calling Rolling Thunder members, "Thugs"!

"Thug Bikers Have it All Wrong"

If you notice, the title of the article is not properly capitalized. This staff writer for the online publication, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, might not know how to write the article, and his article may be full of half-truths and bold-faced lies, but he's got guts for calling the Rolling Thunder guys 'thugs', that I have to give him credit for.

IN THEIR OWN WORDS

Check out this website. It is what the Middle East is saying about America, as they call it, "the infidel regime".

Think Iran is not a danger to the U.S.?

Visit In Their Own Words

Here's a sampling:

"Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Promises to Continue Nuclear Activities Following "Death to America" Chants", Iran Ch. 1 (Iran) 2/11/2007



“The hatred and rage of the Muslim people is directed towards America, the infidel Satanic regime...”

Americans: A Challenge For You!

AN ELEVEN YEAR OLD GIRL SCOUT AND HER MOTHER'S CHALLENGE TO “THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES”:

I wanted to inform you of the challenge Zoa has began. See her attached letter to President Bush. Her letter is being circulated all over the US and she had a huge smile on her face when she found out this was occurring from emails returned to her.
Thursday on our way to my parents home, Zoa asked if we could stop at the Capitol Building and so we did. She took her challenge letter to the Governor’s office. She has challenged our Governor to be Patriotic and American.

The governor was not available But his aides were and Zoa got to be in the Governor’s personal office and pictures taken. DO YOU KNOW HOW PROUD THIS LITTLE AMERICAN IS?????? I like what she has came up with for an idea because our children pay taxes also. Every time they spend their allowance and buy something with their money they are taxed just as well.

I am saddened by the horrific acts that are not peaceful speech that is being ignored such as defacing our war and American monuments. The men and women of our current and past wars are being attacked by defacing many monuments across the United States, by BURNING A MANAQUIN OF AN AMERICAN SOLDIER IN A QUOTE PEACEFUL ANTI WAR DEMONSTRATION, AND BY HAVING PEOPLE SAY THEY ARE SPEAKING FOR US WHEN THEY ARE NOT SPEAKING FOR ME!!!!!! MANY MILITARY FAMILIES AND VETERANS AND SOLDIERS ARE BEING EFFECTED DRASTICALLY AND THAT IS NOT AMERICAN.AND TO CALL THEM BABY KILLERS IS NOT ALRIGHT!!!!

We have people now across America taking Zoa up on her challenge to be American, to be Patriotic, to SUPPORT OUR TROOPS and to BE AMERICAN SPEAK OUT CAUSE OUR RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES ARE BEING TAKEN AWAY.

This needs attention now by anyone who lives in the United States. While we sit back and work everyday to try to achieve our American Dream the best way we can. The people who were voted into our CONGRESS have decided they are right and we the ones WHO voted them in their jobs are wrong.
TRADITION FOR THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA HAS ALWAYS BEEN THERE, BUT PEOPLE WHO DON’T LISTEN TO THE PEOPLE ARE CHANGING THIS GREAT COUNTRY FROM AMERICAN --HOME OF THE FREE!!!!!!!! HOME OF THE BRAVE!!!!!!!!!!!!

There are thousands of clubs and organizations as well as almost everything to do with anything in the United States that these traditions are taught. Those trying to take this away from us are not as many as the media want to train us to think. This is America and I am tired of my life having to change for a few people who are speaking up and getting whatever they want no matter how ridiculous it is--AND MANY THINGS HAVE BEEN WAY PAST RIDIULOUS.
The Girl Scout Promise and Law are shared by every member of Girl Scouting. The Girl Scout Promise is the way Girl Scouts agree to act every day toward one another and other people, and the Law outlines a way to act towards one another and the world.

I NOW CHALLENGE ALL AMERICANS----NO POLITICAL PARTY HERE--THE ONLY PARTY IS AN AMERICAN--Many organizations as well as Girl Scouts hold true to their oath and now need to speak up for what we do stand for as AMERICANS. ( esp.AMERICANS, VETERANS, ESPECIALLY COMBAT VETERANS, VFW’S, AM VETS, BOY SCOUTS, ALL VETERAN ORGANIZATIONS, GIRL SCOUTS , EAGLES, AND THOUSANDS MORE YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE)

Help Zoa and others who live here in America to succeed with the challenge of Letting our troops know we support them. Write President Bush. THE TROOPS MIRACLE OF US BEING HEARD NEEDS TO GO TO THE TOP . Otherwise the miracle as Americans not being heard will continue until everything GOOD about AMERICA IS GONE.. ZOA IS OUR NEXT GENERATION OF CHILDREN THAT WILL SOMEDAY BE TAKING CARE OF US THE CITIZENS OF AMERICA.

THANK YOU,
ZOA’S MOM, JOYCE
( MOTHER, MEMBER OF GIRL SCOUTS, DAV AUXILLARY, CHARLIE COMPANY 2/16, NURSING ORGANIZATIONS, VVFW, WIFE OF NAM VET--REGISTERED VOTER)

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ZOA'S LETTER TO PRESIDENT BUSH:

Zoa--Junior Juliette in Girl Scouts
State of Missouri
USA

My daddy served with the 1st Division, 2nd Battalion, 16th Infantry "Rangers", Charlie Company 65-66 Vietnam
April 5, 2007

President and Mrs. Bush
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington DC 20500

Dear Mr. President and Mrs. Bush,

My name is Zoa and I am eleven years old. I am a Junior Juliette in the Girls Scouts. I am working on my “United We Stand Badge” and “Our Rights, Our Responsibilities Badge”. The last activity to finish my Rights and Responsibility badge is an activity that includes the right to be me, the right to learn, the right to be heard, the right to live in peace, to be happy and to work together.

I am my Daddy’s youngest daughter and he is a disabled Vietnam Veteran. My Grandpa is a World War 2 Veteran from the Navy in the south Pacific. They both fought to make sure I have rights. All of our soldiers do. The Veterans that served with my Daddy that I have met at the reunions my mother has for them every year fought also. Two soldiers who were with my Daddy in Vietnam, got Medals of Honor. I got to go to Dayton, Ohio a few years back to one of their Medal of Honor ceremonies. It was really fun. I learned a lot. There were many soldiers there.

I am enclosing $2.00 to go to our soldiers. They need to be thanked for protecting our freedoms as well as others. I want to challenge all the people who live here in the USA to stand up and be Americans and to write to you and to send you money for our soldiers and to support them. Its important to have respect and to show respect. I hope that they write many letters and mail lots of money to you at the Whitehouse to where the mailmen will have to bring the big bags of mail into you as they did on the Miracle on 34th Street.

What is your favorite American song? Mine is by Lee Greenwood and its called God bless the USA. In Vietnam a soldier my Daddy was with saved my Daddy’s life and I sung his buddy God bless the USA three years ago at the reunion in Branson, Missouri. He was very important to our family he’s in Heaven now.

You are important to our family as the President of the United States. My Mom told me you had two girls. Do they like horses? I made a picture for Mrs. Bush. I hope she likes horses. I made eagles in the picture with the horse. I named him Pete. I made him on the Bella Sara website. It’s a fun website if you like horses.

I hope you will share my challenge with other American people. My family will be praying for your family and the soldiers and their families.

Thank you----Zoa

They're Coming to Take Me Away...Ha Ha Hee Hee Ho Ho!

Well, they should be taking this guy away to the funny farm, like the old song says. This guy is outside of the Walter Reed Medical Center. Think they should have thought twice before closing down some of the mental institutions in this country? Watch the video and decide if he should be wandering the streets:

Hey, Anti-Americans, You Voted 'Em In!

When Iran drops the big one on us, you Anti-American, Radical, Extremist, War Protesting America-Hating Traitors, have no one to blame but themselves.

Check this out:

"House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Tom Lantos, D-San Mateo, just back from a trip to Syria that sparked sharp criticism from Republicans and the Bush administration, suggested Tuesday that they may be interested in taking another diplomatic trip - to open a dialogue with Iran."

"Lantos noted that "with the speaker's support,'' he has co-sponsored legislation in the House that calls for making available to all countries -- including Iran -- nuclear fuel for peaceful purposes under international oversight by establishing a "nuclear fuel bank."

"So if the Iranian president says that he is developing (nuclear material) for peaceful purposes, we are assisting him in that process,'' said Lantos, who anticipated the legislation could pass as early as May."

Meanwhile, in other news:

"Iranian intelligence operatives have been training Iraqi fighters inside Iran on how to use and assemble deadly roadside bombs."

So, let me see if I get this straight.

Iran hates Israel and the United States. It has hated the U.S. at least since they took our citizens hostage from the US Embassy in Tehran and held them for 444 days until another President took the oath of office and got them out.

So, naturally, Pelosi and Lantos not only want to talk to Iran about nuclear weapons, they want to also give them the fuel to develop them.

Hmmm...what is going to come out of this, do you think? This perhaps?

From President Addulaspongeabob:
To Israel and to the U.S.
BUH-BYE!!

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A Hack Journalist from the Cumberland Times News, MD, posted this article last week:

In Washington, a stain on sacred ground
Richard Kerns
Cumberland Times-News

If peace is flowing like a river, my backyard sewer line is sorely ill at ease.

To maintain a modicum of taste in this demented space, I'll be brief and discreet in addressing said subject de yuck. But as surely as a flush will flow downhill until it can't, at which point it will reverse course into one's basement, such a diversion is inevitable. For images of the past week, to say nothing of scents, were so searing as to permeate my very being.

Plumbing. Makes one long for the days of the outhouse. So much aggravation and expense, all to spare a chill bottom on a frigid winter's eve. This time around, the porcelain god demanded pipe-reaming penance for the dual offense of tree roots and a terra-cotta-kinky sewer line.

I think of Charles Ingalls at such times, not only summoning Pa's patience and fortitude, but envying his PVC-free Little House. That is, until I recall that he and Ma only took baths once a week. Mercy.

Speaking of effluent, a recent letter to the editor reeked of jingoistic bombast in detailing the writer's participation in a counter protest to the March 17 anti-war march in Washington. I lay not a whit of claim to the noble fraternity that is the Vietnam Veterans of America, Chapter 172, but hope that at least some of the members who traveled to Washington that day were uncomfortable, not only with the crude letter of this Saturday past, but with the event itself.

Not for demonstrating; getting up at dawn, driving three hours and wading through crowds to make their voices heard. Red, Blue or any political hue, that's kicking citizenship up a notch. Downright American. It was the venom I'd have them disavow.

The next day's Washington Post featured pictures of enraged counter-demonstrators, and the accompanying story reinforced the images with vitriolic quotes, similar to the tone of the Altoona letter. I have no problem with flag-waving, chest-pounding, bird-flipping passion, but as the letter and story made evident, many were spoiling for a fight.

The flames were sparked and stoked by an Internet campaign that shamelessly played on reverence for our nation's memorials. This "Gathering of Eagles" maliciously and falsely alleged that the protesters were out to deface The Vietnam Memorial, among other national treasures. "Rally to the Mall," went the call, and they commenced to juice everybody up for a conflict wholly of their own creation.

It is sacrilege to politicize the nation's monuments, to belligerently claim ownership of that which belongs to all Americans. And while there may be a nut or two at any protest, the authorities are well equipped to deal with them. Just as Derby Day of old - when beer flowed cold - was the worst day of the year to get drunk and rowdy on Frostburg's Main Street, so too is a protest march the worst time to deface public property on the Mall.

As with George W. Bush and Iraq, the cause-beli of the "gathering" was bunk.

Nor did the organizers fulfill their vaunted mission, which, according to the group's Web site, is "to stand silent guard" over the memorials, in a manner that is "non-violent and non-confrontational."

"The vets turned both sides of Constitution (Avenue) into a bitter, charged gauntlet for the war protesters," the Post reported. "'Jihadists!' some vets screamed."

Contrary to aspersions cast upon them like the manure some "eagles" tossed, peace activists marched in the spirit of the men whose names appear upon The Wall.

It was the signature lesson of the Vietnam War, embraced by Americans across the wide political divide in testament to the sacrifice embodied by those 58,249 names on polished black granite: Never again would the warrior be blamed for the war.

As a reporter with the Frederick News-Post in the fall of 1990, I covered a symposium at Mount Saint Mary's on the eve of the Gulf War. Many in the audience opposed military action to dislodge Saddam Hussein's armies from Kuwait, but in stating their position on the nation's first major conflict since Vietnam, young and old alike invariably attached a caveat: We support the troops. Lesson not only learned, but taken to heart, as a people and a nation.

Seventeen years later, I have yet to see evidence to the contrary in the current conflict overseas. Indeed, the American people rose in righteous anger at the revelation that the administration wasn't taking proper care of our wounded. Our wounded. Just like they are our monuments. Yours and mine.

I'm left to wonder as to March 17, had I marched with others opposed to the war. What would have been my welcome, had I left those ranks and approached The Wall, just beyond the wall of anger surrounding it?

Would the letter writer have stepped from my path? What if I told him I'd come seeking the space where the name and memory of Joseph Patrick Rowley reside, just as they do outside the VVA hall on Liberty Street? Maybe if I told him how my distant cousin was aboard a C-130 making a hop to DaNang and the sweet ride home after a year in-country, when the plane crashed in fog, killing all 28 aboard, including John D. Saville, also of Cumberland.

Perhaps, if he still knew me only as "dirtball," I might mention Stella Rowley, mother of Joseph Patrick, who this October will mark 40 years since her baby died at age 20. Would he allow me to etch her son's name?

This nation's been at war far too long, and far too long at war with itself. The counter demonstration of March 17 was bitter fruit the politics of division.

We must indeed stake out and defend those few remaining DMZs upon America's charred political landscape, where countrymen all can unite around shared ideals, shared history, shared sacrifice.

Sanctified at dearest cost, one such sanctuary is the hallowed ground before The Vietnam Wall...

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This appeared today as a rebuttal. Way to go Kristinn!

Gathering of Eagles drew vets, 'patriots' to protect memorials

To the Editor:

The commentary "In Washington, a Stain on Sacred Ground" by Richard Kerns (April 4), is uninformed and extremely insulting to the thousands of veterans who came to Washington, D.C. on March 17 to help protect the war memorials on the National Mall and to stand up to the antiwar protesters who marched that day.

At the previous peace march in Washington, on Jan. 27, peace protesters spray painted the Capitol, desecrated the Navy Memorial, broke windows at a recruiting center and assaulted an Iraq war amputee - all in plain view of law enforcement. It was those documented incidents and the failure of law enforcement to do its job that day, in conjunction with the announcement by the organizer of the March 17 antiwar march that they would be holding a rally at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, that prompted Vietnam veterans to organize the Gathering of Eagles.

Mr. Kerns accuses the Gathering of Eagles of "maliciously and falsely alleg(ing)" that antiwar protesters were threatening to deface the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.' There were indeed threats made by antiwar activists to use spray paint and acid to deface The Wall. There were also threats to use Molotov cocktails to attack veterans on March 17. Those threats were forwarded to the U.S. Park Police. Obviously the Park Service took those and other threats seriously, as they took the rare step of having visitors to The Wall that day pass through a security checkpoint.

Mr. Kerns repeats the unfounded accusation that counter-protesters threw manure at the antiwar protesters. I am not aware of any photos or videos that document that unacceptable behavior. However The Washington Post published a video report that features a middle aged female peace protester spitting on a young male Gathering of Eagles participant.

Those who gathered at the memorials did indeed hold a silent respectful vigil. Those who stood along the march route of the antiwar protesters were free to peacefully express themselves. Those who participated in our morning rally were quite loud at times as they cheered, "USA! USA! USA!"

While Mr. Kerns castigates the veterans for being mentally prepared to stand up for their brothers in arms serving in the current war, no mention is made of the antiwar protesters who came armed for battle. These protesters, known as Black Bloc anarchists, carried large shields and marched in battle formation. The Black Bloc is known for its violence and destruction of property, yet they are allowed by the peace marchers to routinely participate in their protests.

After the antiwar march to the Pentagon, the Black Bloc anarchists returned to the Mall where they attempted to overrun the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Law enforcement thwarted that attack, however the anarchists engaged in a running battle with law enforcement officers for several blocks near The Wall.

Mr. Kerns insults a passionate patriotic Korean War veteran, George K. Bathie, who peacefully, if boisterously, participated in the Gathering of Eagles by describing his letter to the Times-News as "jingoistic bombast." Mr. Bathie's recognition that he and his fellow Marines fought and died for the right of the protesters to hold their march was apparently lost in the "bombast" by Mr. Kerns.

Mr. Kerns claims "peace activists marched in the spirit of the men whose names are on The Wall." A more insulting line could not have been written. The peace activists marched under the banner of the ANSWER Coalition, a Marxist group that has given its unconditional support to the so-called resistance in Iraq. To say that those marchers, who carried ANSWER's Che Guevera signs, marched in the spirit of those gave their lives fighting communism is to spit on those soldiers' graves.

Mr. Kerns and The Times-News owes an apology for insulting the thousands of veterans, Gold and Blue Star families and other patriotic Americans who participated in the Gathering of Eagles.


Kristinn Taylor
Spokesman and D.C. Coordinator
Gathering of Eagles

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Here's another letter to the editor from a lurking leftard. It appeared in the TimesDispatch, Richmond VA, online:

Anti-War Protesters Had Larger Numbers

Editor, Times-Dispatch: In response to Randolph Watkins' letter, I would like to correct a few of his statements about the Iraq war protest in Washington, D.C.
--While it was the biggest counter-demonstration I've seen so far since the war began, to claim that right-wingers outnumbered protesters three-to-one is ridiculous. While the organizers of the protest hoped to get 30,000 demonstrators, I estimate the number to have been around 10,000. The right-wing counter-protesters numbered around 1,000. Ten to one in our favor.

--Enough of this "Jane Fonda and Cindy Sheehan" rhetoric. I was there to protest the war, not to follow two people who have absolutely no influence over my views.

--Remember that Sheehan and many other women and men out there are parents of soldiers, too. Also try to remember to show some repect to the anti-war veterans' groups when they march instead of calling them traitors and spitting at them.

--Let's be honest about why the counter-demonstration numbers were larger than usual. Several right-wing Web sites claimed that the protesters planned to deface and destroy the Vietnam Veterans Memorial -- a complete lie. Dozens of Vietnam veterans march against the Iraq war every time we protest.

It is said we are traitors who hate our soldiers and our country. I say those who care more about the flag and the glory of Ronald Reagan than they do about justice and doing the right thing for our soldiers are the traitors. Those who ignore the injustices committed by our own government, as they use a national tragedy to push forward a far right-wing agenda, are the traitors. Kyle Eyerly


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And here is my response:

To the Editor:

I am writing in response to a ‘Letter to the Editor’ from a Mr. Kyle Eyerly, Richmond, VA, entitled, “Anti-War Protesters Had Larger Numbers”

In Mr. Everly’s letter, he stated, “The right-wing counter-protesters numbered around 1,000.”

There are several things wrong with this statement. The first is that the “Gathering of Eagles” is not a right-wing group. It is a group made up of veterans, and those who support our country and our US troops. We went to DC on March 17, 2007, to oppose all that the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition stands for. We not only went to show support for our men and women in uniform currently fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, we went to oppose the radical and extremists groups that make up the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition

The “Gathering of Eagles” rallied against the Free Mumia group, who wants justice for a twice-convicted cop killer. We rallied against the Free the Cuban Five Group, who want freedom for the 5 Cuban terrorists who planned attacks against the United States. We rallied against the SDS, a communist group, that among other things, wants to see Israel wiped off the face of the Earth. We went to rally against those groups who want us to free the terrorists from Guantanamo Bay, so they can carry out their planned attacks against the United States. The National Park Service in Washington, DC, released the numbers regarding the anti-groups and the pro-groups. No one from “The Gathering of Eagles” presumed to say how many of us were in attendance.

In his Letter to the Editor, Mr. Everly also said, “…try to remember to show some respect to the anti-war veterans' groups when they march instead of calling them traitors and spitting at them.”

The ‘veterans’ who marched to the Pentagon with the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition were men who had never served their country. They dressed in military garb and carried signs claiming they were Iraqi War Veterans. No anti-war member was spit upon. Protesters spit on veterans, not the other way around, or have we all forgotten the welcome home our Vietnam Veterans received? Mr. Everly is misinformed and is fabricating the facts.

I saved the last item in Mr. Everly’s ‘Letter to the Editor’ for last because it is the biggest lie of all. There are photos and documentation of vandalism and desecration of war memorials throughout the country in many places on the internet, and in newspaper articles. There are websites that include photos of the vandalism, and links to the newspapers that printed these photos.

Mr. Everly said, “Several right-wing Web sites claimed that the protesters planned to deface and destroy the Vietnam Veterans Memorial -- a complete lie.”

If you take the time to visit the following two websites, you will see that what Mr. Everly stated in his Letter to the Editor is simply not the truth. Threats to war memorials are all too frighteningly real:

Why I Went to DC 3/17/07

One link on this website contains the exact wording of the threat to vandalize the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall, and the direct link is here:

A Thug Threatens Violence at the Wall

A “Gathering of Eagles”, the group which attended the pro-US troops, pro-America rally on March 17, 2007, are tired of people tearing down our country. We decided to rally in support of our great country and those who defend her. We believe it is time to “Take America Back!”, and we will do so at every anti-war protest from now on.

The mainstream media refuses to acknowledge that there are people in America who support our country and who support the troops. Garbage sells, bad news sells, and no editor wants to spread the word about a group who still believes in the greatest and most powerful country on Earth, the United States of America!” Do you?