Pentagon announces September 11 concert

[brettdale]

"I bet this is just to counter the huge antiwar march"


http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/pentagon-announces-september-11-concert/2005/08/10/1123353364623.html?oneclick=true

The Pentagon would hold a massive march and country music concert to mark the fourth anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks, US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said in an announcement tucked into an Iraq war briefing today.

"This year the Department of Defence will initiate an America Supports Your Freedom Walk," Rumsfeld said, adding that the march would remind people of "the sacrifices of this generation and of each previous generation".

[Warren DeMontague]

1. Mmmm. My tax dollars at work.

Oh, goody.

[wtmusic]

2. I want to see those idiots dancing to music on the anniversary of 9/11

what an awful idea

[FreedomAngel82]

14. Is it going to be at Madison Square garden?

These people make me sick. Dancing on people's graves!

[uppityperson]

3. I had to put this into the lounge too, this is just tooooooo stupid.

The article has good quotes though, from people who agree this is idiotic.

[kitkat65]

4. Egads. There's something inherently wrong when

"the Department of Defence" thinks part of it's job is to "initiate an America Supports Your Freedom Walk."

Who the fuck do they think they're kidding?

[Bluebear]

6. To prepare draftees for boot camp? get 'em in shape? nt

[kitkat65]

9. Yo. Didn't Pete get the memo? Saddam's not in charge anymore.

"We are at war," said Representative Pete King, (Republican, New York).

"It's essential that we support our troops."

He also said attacking Iraq was necessary after September 11.

"You do not defeat al-Qaeda until you stabilise the Middle East, and that's not possible as long as Saddam Hussein is in power."



Those assholes are still trying to conect 9/11 to Iraq. Iraq didn't have al-Qaeda until we got there.:banghead:

[Bluebear]

5. COUNTRY music concert, you see.

No offense to c/w lovers, but why is this tacky concert not a blend of hip-hop, symphonic, Tejano, etc...a musical quilt of ALL America? Because this is more government sanctioned code for who the "real" American is.

[Erika]

7. Over reaching again

My GOP lady friend hides from political conversations about Iraq because she talked her boy out of going into the military. They are upper middle class and she bribed him with buying him his own race car and full college tuition.

[cssmall]

8. I see it now:

A waddling Britney Spears takes the stage with her husband. (Decked out in bunny slippers and a maternity dress, of course) And, proceeds to speak: "Support President Bush, ya'll, because he talked me in t' keepin' this baby a' mine."

Kevin: "That's enough, wife. Get back in the kitchen and take them damn slippers off. Don't even talk about a watch, you got a clock on the stove. Git on! Unless you want a pellet in your left asscheek."

Ahh. . . true American values.

[wli]

10. Will they change the standard march to the goose step for the occasion?

It sure smells a lot like the old black & white footage of stormtroopers marching around in formation in 1930's Germany.

[gratuitous]

11. Sweet Jesus

I'm so glad I'm on the side of the angels and the side with the better music.

[alphafemale]

12. What sacrifices has THIS generation faced?

Besides our freedom at the hands of these republican self-righteous thugs that is.

[Erika]

13. Bushco is going to force us thru the Nam experience again

Bring it on...how very sad.

[WatchWhatISay]

15. Good. Lets hope all the recruiters are there.

To make sure that they do more than just talk the talk.

[nookiemonster]

16. A government supported "march" and C/W concert???

No fucking shame at all. Not a one of them.

[deadparrot]

17. In the middle of blue-at-all-costs DC?

This is some pretty sick propaganda. Not to mention ridiculously disrespectful to every victim of 9/11 and the Iraq quagmire.

[spindoctor]

18. Yea cool! Let's have a party to commemorate our fallen country men!

Bastards.