South Florida Sun Sentinal has an interesting column.
VFW vets in a red state don’t give Bush the time of day! I remember a diary a few days ago by Cold Fusion who wrote about a Bushie friend that turned. Comments made there were enthusiastic about wing-nuts turning one-by-one (or two-by-two, heh). Now it’s your average vet.
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“Does it have to be so loud”???? At a VFW while the President speaks? Dominos! Yes, key supporters of Bat-Shit Loopy are ignoring him! more:
Now, if you’re the president and vet’s are saying this about you…your shit is weak!
From Ted Anderson, 73, a Korean War veteran and former police chief in New Jersey: “We still have thousands of troops in the [demilitarized zone] in Korea 50 years after the fact. It’s going to be the same thing 50 years from now in Iraq.”
The greatest generation and the forgotten war guys see the folly of Iraq. These were guys (and gals) who were Dubya’s base for a strong national defense. They don’t sound so supportive now, but to me a more patriotic.
Howard Fay, a former prisoner of war in Vietnam, ladled meatballs in the kitchen.
“I don’t like this war at all,” he said. “Saddam wasn’t doing anything to us. The one we should have been going after with everything is Osama bin Laden.”
Bush invoked bin Laden and Sept. 11 in his speech, stressing the non-Iraqi “terrorists” who have congregated in Iraq to make the country “a central front in the war on terror.”
Said Anderson, who spent nine years in the Navy and Marines: “They just play up on the fear. It used to be the domino theory and stopping communism. There was a picture, The Russians Are Coming, The Russians are Coming. Now it’s `The Terrorists are Coming, The Terrorists are Coming.’ After 9-11, I think we overreacted a little bit. We’re not using our heads.”
These veterans know war is never simple or easy, and they say this president, who never saw combat, overlooked these things in his rush to invade Iraq and install democracy.
“I have no respect for this president,” said Bud Lynch of Hallandale, a Korean War veteran. “He’s just trying to finish Daddy’s job. That’s all this was about. There was no nuclear [expletive] or WMDs to begin with … If it were my son who was being sent over there, I wouldn’t let him go.”
Wow, when the guy spooning out meatballs in the VFW kitchen is pissed (take it from me, I know) you really need to think of resigning. Note red, white, and blue vets are saying that they wouldn’t let their kids go to Iraq.
Said Anderson: “Korea turned out to be B.S., Vietnam was B.S., and Iraq is B.S. It’s all political. All these people are dying in vain … I was in for nine years, so don’t go waving a flag in my face and say I’m not being patriotic.”
Bush heard applause as he finished at Fort Bragg, but there wasn’t a ripple at Post 2500.
“I go to a VA Hospital in Anchorage for my medicine and I’m seeing a lot of new people in there every time,” said Giblock. “We have an Army base and an Air Force base nearby, and they’re getting MedVac’ed back in [from Iraq] all the time.
“I’m seeing people in wheelchairs, people missing limbs, people with burns. That’s the part they don’t show on the news.”
This is it. The vets “get it”. “Don’t wave a flag in my face and tell me that I’m not patriotic”, wow! I am impressed because, as a vet myself, I know these types of folks. They’re really good people but what is common in the VFW is the amount of kool-aid served. It looks like the kool-aid is running out of surger! These are normal folks like Cold Fusion’s friend. I am posting this because I think this is an important indicator of Grand Poobah’s eroding support from some of the most diehard supporters.
AND THIS IS IN A RED STATE!