Protesters at Military funerals, these people make me sick.

[Spurminator]

So let's fight Cons utional right with Cons utional right. How about Freedom of the Press?

In other words, let's pull some of the resources we're wasting on smoking Sandra Bullock out of hiding and follow every WBC member around wherever they go, snapping photos, writing about every daily activity and generally making their lives a living .

[Cyrano]

I know your natural state is to try to turn everything political and make it look like the "other side" is wrong,

And you know this about me how? Certainly not from reading my posts. I think you may have mistaken me for someone else.

[thispego]

what makes military funerals worthy of picketing? If this WBC was really committed to their gay-hate they'd be picketing any funeral. Nothing special about military funerals. Someone died... What's the significance?

[Blake]

So let's fight Cons utional right with Cons utional right. How about Freedom of the Press?

In other words, let's pull some of the resources we're wasting on smoking Sandra Bullock out of hiding and follow every WBC member around wherever they go, snapping photos, writing about every daily activity and generally making their lives a living .

photo 1: picketing another funeral because of the gays

photo 2: picketing IHOP for serving rooty tooty fresh and frooty

photo 3: picketing Chrysler for selling PT Cruisers

photo 4: picketing nba forum for all of the lol threads

yawn

[Drachen]

what makes military funerals worthy of picketing? If this WBC was really committed to their gay-hate they'd be picketing any funeral. Nothing special about military funerals. Someone died... What's the significance?

Because according to them it is specifically because we have gays in our country that we fail at any endeavor that we try nationally. Also, it gets more attention for them.

[Booharv]

Has a hardcore Conservative ever converted a hardcore Liberal to their side via a web forum? Or vice versa? I'm willing to bet no. If so I'd like to see the thread where it happened.

[spursncowboys]

What the does that have to do with this? This is not about the war in Iraq, this is about the military in general! These soldiers did not choose to go to Iraq! They chose to join the military because it was the right thing to do for themselves and for the country! The fact that we had to go to an unpopular war is not our fault! So your intelligence cause you clearly don't have any!

bravo.

[spursncowboys]

It was in your second sentence exclamation point

talk about the story, you don't have to tell us that "they" died for our freedom of speech or that "you" defend our freedom of speech. It hurts your cause, everyone is against these people protesting, everyone. You don't have to lie to make a point we all agree with

how was saddam going to abolish our freedom of speech?

What wars do you agree with? Germany would have been at war with England and Russia for a long time before becoming a direct threat to our Cons utional rights in America.
Why can you not see indirect results towards our actions and lack of actions?
Why so much anger towards military? Did you find unit crests behind your girlfriends bed?

[spursncowboys]

yessah, those Irackies needed to be taught a lesson after living in the cave of ignorance. I in' love the way they run their elections now too and all the good choices they've been making such as renaming Sadaam City "Sadr City" after a respected dead Ayatollah and allowing his son Muqtada al-Sadr to run it. You heard about what they do there? Reminds me of when those Vietnamese renamed Saigon into "Ho Chi Minh City." That was another glorious campaign, we're just racking them up ain't we brother?



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Are the ragheads too stupid to understand democracy? Should we have Saddam stay in power to keep mass murdering all the occupants of the Sadr City? You realize that entire part of Baghdad is shantyville? vietnam is different since the s. vietnamese didn't want to be raped, butchered and murdered by the communists. that is what saddam was doing to the people.

[word]

but it's perfectly reasonable to assume the possibility of a world without US soldiers (but everyone else has soldiers)

pwn3d

n00b

go back to your high school bible history class

haha...unfortunately, there are people who believe if this happened everything would just be peachy in the world.

[lil'mo]

What the does that have to do with this? This is not about the war in Iraq, this is about the military in general! These soldiers did not choose to go to Iraq! They chose to join the military because it was the right thing to do for themselves and for the country! The fact that we had to go to an unpopular war is not our fault! So your intelligence cause you clearly don't have any!

it is YOUR JOB that YOU SIGNED UP FOR, probably because you were to unqualified to get a real job.

[mookie2001]

Mookie, it's interesting to me the stuff you choose to focus on. The thread starter is right about the hearts of the men who choose to serve. They had the right ideals even if some of the politics behind it all may not just. What you're doing is just as disrespectful to these men and why they gave up their lives as what the protestors are doing.

that's funny

How was I just as disrespectful? It's the truth

serving you country is honorable enough, dying in war is tragic enough, you shouldn't have to tell people they died for our freedom of speech, because they did not. That's a fact, nobody has explained how saddam was going to abolish our freedom of speech

the patriot guard didn't show up for WWII funerals, we're talking about the war in Iraq

[Stringer_Bell]

Are the ragheads too stupid to understand democracy? Should we have Saddam stay in power to keep mass murdering all the occupants of the Sadr City? You realize that entire part of Baghdad is shantyville? vietnam is different since the s. vietnamese didn't want to be raped, butchered and murdered by the communists. that is what saddam was doing to the people.

Wait a second, did we invade Iraq to defend OUR freedom or as charity to the poor people of Iraq living in fear of being mass murdered? If it's the latter, I can think of a few other places we can go out of charity.

[petee]

that's funny

How was I just as disrespectful? It's the truth

serving you country is honorable enough, dying in war is tragic enough, you shouldn't have to tell people they died for our freedom of speech, because they did not. That's a fact, nobody has explained how saddam was going to abolish our freedom of speech

the patriot guard didn't show up for WWII funerals, we're talking about the war in Iraq

Having read all the posts in this thread, I somewhat get a sense about what you are -one orphan whose parents left their wailing kid to join Taliban and got killed in an military action launched by US troops. You can't be so hatefully against the US military otherwise.

[EmptyMan]

There is free speech, and then there is the public instigation of your own demise.

They should make a special law against enticing such public danger. That's probably why this trash uses their brainwashed kids to hold their trash signs.

[howbouthemspurs]

it is YOUR JOB that YOU SIGNED UP FOR, probably because you were to unqualified to get a real job.

Well I signed up as a paramedic and then later became a combat medic serving in Iraq twice in the past 5 years. All the people i've treated and cared for would most likely tell you that they would consider what i do, a real job. Not every member of the military are "poor kids who couldn't do anything else with their lives". Many are doctors, lawyers, chemical engineers, scientist, teachers, etc....and many are willing to risk their health, their lives and their everyday freedoms (that so many others take for granted), so you wouldn't have to. You clearly have a misconception of the military. Even the infantry have to learn and train on so many technical objectives and equipment that it would make a regular citizen's head spin. So please respectfully, GO YOURSELF!