WP: More than 200(!) today counterprotest in DC, claim "majority"

[Faygo Kid]

Well, isn't that special. Bless them for their misguided passion. And why does the WP (war cheerleaders in 2002, in case anyone forgets) cover them?

Smaller but Spirited Crowd Protests Antiwar March
More Than 200 Say They Represent Majority

By Timothy Dwyer
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, September 25, 2005; A13

On a day when they knew they would be outnumbered and out-shouted, more than 200 supporters of the Iraq war nonetheless gathered yesterday at the U.S. Navy Memorial to get out their message.

They were military families and members of such organizations as Move America Forward and RightMarch.com and Protest Warrior, and they were determined to be heard.

The crowd cheered when William Greene, president of RightMarch.com, called the antiwar protesters "the Sheehanistas." They cheered again when he said: "Our voices will not be silenced. We are the majority."

For the counter-protesters, the day began at a downtown hotel several blocks from the Navy Memorial, with a news conference held by about 20 Gold Star Families for Peace. The message most of them delivered was simple: Cindy Sheehan, the antiwar mother who led a vigil outside President Bush's Texas ranch after her son was killed in combat, did not represent them.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/24/AR2005092401701.html

[joanne]

1. And where was the Chimp in Chief?

Hiding out in Colorado of all places. Such a coward.

Of course, he supposedly was there to "ride out the hurricane."

Yep......... riiiiiiight.

[yorkiemommie1]

2. delusional, just like their masters

didn't they have their march on 9/11?

:rofl:

[walldude]

4. Yeah with all of 3000 people

and many of them government employees... You gotta wonder what was going through these freepers minds when the crowd started to get near them. And then kept coming and coming, and coming and coming...

[bluestateguy]

3. They are still living in 2002

"Bush is a popular wartime president"

"We're fighting for freedom in Iraq"

"Iraq has WMD's"

"Saddam is involved with Al Qaeda"

[Faygo Kid]

7. None of us here ever bought 2002. I hope.

Absolute pain for me and mine in opening up the Washington Post every day and finding the cheerleading for the transparent excuse for an immoral war, and not only that, but diverting resources from the real war against those who hit us on 9/11, including building relationships in the Muslim communities, and . . . I can't go on. I am in my mid-50s. 2002 will be there with the most important years of my lifetime.

[FreedomAngel82]

9. Really quite sad

Tsk.

[madeline_con]

5. "Cindy Sheehan ... did not represent them."

Gee, thanks for clarifiying that. Again. :eyes:

[proud2BlibKansan]

6. I thought Gold Star Families for Peace

was Cindy's organization?

[Pharlo]

8. The end of American education....

First they forget how to spell, and the proper use of grammar;

Then, they confuse scientific theory with theocracy;

Now, they just can't seem to figure out that 200,000 is REALLY more than 200.

Pitiful really. Poor, lost souls. Can't blame them for clinging so fanatically to their religion - it's all they have left.