Yes, But They Support The Troops

The adorable peaceniks, led by Fonda, Robbins and company, obviously support the troops. Why else would some of their cronies attempt to spit on an Iraq Vet during recent DC protests? Update: Yes, spit in the direction of, perhaps. As if that makes a big difference.

Later, as antiwar protesters passed where he and his group were standing, words were exchanged and one of the antiwar protestors spit at the ground near Mr. Sparling; he spit back.

Sad but true, some never seem to learn from the past at all. No wonder they nominated Kerry in 2004. h/t Ian at Hot Air who has more.

Capitol police made the antiwar protestors walk farther away from the counterprotesters.

“These are not Americans as far as I’m concerned,” Mr. Sparling said.

Another counterprotester, Larry Stark, 71, a retired Navy officer who fought in Vietnam for five years and was a prisoner of war, said, “We never lost a battle in Vietnam but we lost the war, and the same is going to be true in Iraq if these protesters have their way.”

The protesters on Saturday were undermining troop morale, Mr. Stark said, and increasing the likelihood of a premature withdrawal.

“It’s like we never learn from the past,” he said.

Comments

[Rico J. Halo]

Democrats try to maintain a fascade of supporting our troops but this exposes them for the hypocrites that they really are. If the Democrat leadership had an ounce of class they would denounce this sort of action. But no, they will still continue to not only welcome them with open arms but to encourage them to even more disgusting acts. I'm not a Republican but theres no way in hell I would ever have anything to do with a party that tolerates that sort of disgusting behavior.

[Capitalist Infidel]

Can we question their patriotism yet?

[scarshapedstar]

Ah, yes, Joshua Sparling, the World's Unluckiest Soldier.

Not only was he spat upon today, but in December, he received a threatening Christmas card, which turned out to have been penned by a white supremacist - clearly a cleverly disguised moonbat! And then he was attacked by Dirty F*cking Hippies at the airport! Luckily, his luck isn't all bad - he's also quoted in Pentagon press releases. And if that's not enough, Sean Hannity sent him an iPod and some movies, and Denny Hastert even invited him to the SOTU! Heck, Ollie North even turned him into a rockstar at his Freedom Alliance concerts.

I swear, on the one hand you think the guy was just born with a Spit On Me sign taped to his back, because he seems to be the victim of every single hippie-spitting incident ever. On the other hand, the government treats him so well that you'd swear he was some kind of Pentagon propaganda -- er, I mean, fifth-generation psyops mindwar total information control -- specialist.

That is, if you were a moonbat so blinded by BDS that you couldn't just accept that this just your run-of-the-mill enormous coincidence.

(links to all stories are from digby, here:

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2007_01_01_digbysblog_archive.html#117000548943680313

and here:

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2007_01_01_digbysblog_archive.html#117003273802056880

sadly, Dan's overzealous spam filter and lack of HTML make it difficult for me to link directly to any of them.)

...by the way Rico, I couldn't help but notice your use of "Democrat" as an adjective. I highly recommend you visit http://democratparty.blogspot.com.

[Dr Zen]

Yeah, who could imagine it? The spat-on marine just happens to be Hannity's best bud.

So now the Dems have to condemn your fantasies as well as everything that actually does happen. Well, you know, you can probably take it as read that they condemn most things you fantasise about, dude.

[Northerner]

“We never lost a battle in Vietnam but we lost the war, and the same is going to be true in Iraq if these protesters have their way.”

The protesters have nothing to do with winning or losing the war in Iraq. It's lost already. The US have learned (again) that democracy can only be imposed (or re-imposed) if a country had a tradition of democracy in the first place. That is the difference between WWII on the one hand and Vietnam and Iraq on the other hand. Democracy is something that needs to evolve from within a people. If it is then taken away by force, it may be re-instated by force. Or at least, if the undemocratic force is taken away, democracy will surface again. It cannot be forced upon a people who do not have a democratic tradition. That, in my view, is the single biggest mistake made in the Iraq war and that's what has ultimately lost the war for the US. They tried to force a political system upon a country that just wasn't ready for it.

[Capitalist Infidel]

"digby?" Bwahahahaha!!! Talk about a far left wing radical kook. It always cracks me up when some lunatic moonbat links to a fellow moonbat to justify his vicious hatred of our military.

[scarshapedstar]

Ah, yes. Digby, the ultimate moonbat, whose BDS is so strong that she can create NYT stories out of pure shrill.

[Phoenix]

I highly recommend you visit http://democratparty.blogspot.com.

Posted by: scarshapedstar | Monday, January 29, 2007 at 12:45 AM

Link goes nowhere.