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sabra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-26-05 08:42 AM
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(Senator) Sessions: Anti-war demonstrators 'Blame America First'

http://www.wsfa.com/Global/story.asp?S=3898057&nav=0RdE

Sessions: Anti-war demonstrators 'Blame America First'

WASHINGTON(AP)_ Support for U.S. troops fighting abroad mixed with anger toward anti-war demonstrators at home as hundreds of people, far fewer than organizers had expected, rallied Sunday on the National Mall just a day after a massive protest against the war in Iraq.

...

''The group who spoke here the other day did not represent the American ideals of freedom, liberty and spreading that around the world,'' Sen. Jeff Sessions, an Alabama Republican, told the crowd. ''I frankly don't know what they represent, other than to blame America first.''

One sign on the mall read ''Cindy Sheehan doesn't speak for me'' and another ''Arrest the traitors''; it listed Sheehan's name first among several people who have spoken against the war.


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skooooo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-26-05 08:44 AM
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1. stfu

This asshole needs to hear from us.
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MelissaB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-26-05 08:45 AM
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4. Please write or mail him your thoughts.
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sabra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-26-05 08:47 AM
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5. great idea. will do
peace.
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Occulus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-26-05 08:48 AM
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7. We should paralyze his office
Edited on Mon Sep-26-05 08:48 AM by kgfnally
Call, and instead of complaining, just talk about stupid everyday stuff.

*ring* "Senator Sessions' office, can I help you?"

"I just heard the most amazing thing! Becky got a new car!!" (and stop)

All day long.
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Nicholas D Wolfwood Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-26-05 09:30 AM
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13. You're only going to waste the time of an unpaid intern.
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zbdent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-26-05 08:44 AM
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2. Yep - arrest those exercising freedom of speech
and put up statues of those who expose CIA agents . . .

SICK F*CKS . . .
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MelissaB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-26-05 08:45 AM
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3. Recommending to expose this asshat to all of America
Yeah, I'm from Alabama. Just know that all of us don't think this way.
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Nicholas D Wolfwood Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-26-05 09:32 AM
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14. We know Melissa.
Believe me, we definitely know we've got allies all over the South, even in the reddest of red counties.

Unfortunately, I don't think we're ever going to have enough of you to get assholes like Sessions out of office.
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BlueEyedSon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-26-05 08:47 AM
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6. Blaming Bush & the neocons is not blaming America, you douchebag!
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UrbScotty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-26-05 08:49 AM
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8. If you can't take the heat, get out of the Senate! (nt)
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BOSSHOG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-26-05 08:49 AM
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9. Senator, I spent 24 years supporting freedom and liberty
I love my country and our constitution more than any 100+ bunch of ignorant lemmings you can throw together and hand out flags to; and my actions as a Sailor and as a civilian prove it. I saw on an earlier post that two more American Soldiers have been killed in Iraq. No doubt they had your support and the support of all the flag waving assholes who think they are conservative and will do whatever the haters on right wing radio tell them to do. I'd be more than happy to tell you what I represent.
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QC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-26-05 08:49 AM
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10. Sessions has three kids.
Why haven't they enlisted?

Perhaps we should send enlistment forms to the honorable gentleman.
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Norquist Nemesis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-26-05 08:59 AM
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11. How Ironic
Apparently, the only way to spread American ideals of freedom and liberty around the world is at the point of a gun! "Right" Senator?

Senator Sessions should get a failing grade for competency as a federally elected official. He is either clueless or attempting to further ratchet up the divide, IMO. A U.S. Senator displaying these character attributes and representing a diverse constituency should not have the privilege of voting to enact laws affecting the citizens of this country.
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indepat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-26-05 08:59 AM
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12. Who else is to be blamed for American foreign policy and pre-emptive war
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leesa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-26-05 09:41 AM
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15. Well, it IS American foreign policy doing the damage, after all
Don't blame America....just a variation of the GOP, "It ain't my fault" meme.
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MadAsHellNewYorker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-26-05 09:48 AM
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16. We are blaming GOVERNMENT first...we are america
you just don't seem to get that Sessions. We are America. You are the government. Its our job to keep you in check (although, clearly we are failing). all you are doing is "projection of the right" projecting your problems on us. :eyes:
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flyarm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-26-05 10:07 AM
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17. i just called sessions office 5 times..
the first 3 times i was hung up upon...i ws polite and respectful, and very calm...but when i said why i was calling regarding senator sessions remarks..i was flipped to music..with no comment to hold or anything..i was just flipped onto a music line!the 4th time..there gal got into semetics with me when i sid i wanted to make a comment to senator sessions regarding his comments in his pro war speech..the gal in his office said ovber me..pro troops..i reiterated pro- war..and she hung up on me..the fithfth time i asked for a voicemail line as i would not be hung up on again!

please take a moment to call his office and give em hell harry!

main switch board..202 -3121

be courteous...always...

fly
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MelissaB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-26-05 10:33 AM
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19. Thank you, fly! I get stupid replies from his office when I call. I just
can't believe some of the "shit" they put in writing in response to my calls. They must think I'm stupid.

Website contact page: http://sessions.senate.gov/contact.htm

Phone numbers:

Birmingham
Office of Senator Jeff Sessions
341 Vance Federal Building
1800 Fifth Avenue North
Birmingham, Alabama 35203-2171
(205) 731-1500 - Phone
(205) 731-0221 - Fax

Huntsville
Office of Senator Jeff Sessions
AmSouth Center, Suite 802
200 Clinton Avenue NW
Huntsville, Alabama 35801-4932
(256) 533-0979 - Phone
(256) 533-0745 - Fax

Mobile
Office of Senator Jeff Sessions
41 West I-65 Service Road, Suite 2300-A
Mobile, Alabama 36608-1291
(251) 414-3083 - Phone
(251) 414-5845 - Fax

Montgomery
Office of Senator Jeff Sessions
7550 Halcyon Summit Drive, Suite 150
Montgomery, Alabama 36117
(334) 244-7017 - Phone
(334) 244-7091 Fax

Washington, D.C.
Office of Senator Jeff Sessions
335 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510-0104
(202) 224-4124 - Phone
(202) 224-3149 - Fax
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maxrandb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-26-05 10:32 AM
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18. Sessions is just another member of
the "Blame Ex-American Presidents First" crowd. It's all the fault of the "Clenis".

How they can wrap their heads around this one is beyond me. They claim that Democrats and liberals "blame America first", yet they've spent their entire existence "blaming former American Presidents first"...a president that I would like to add was our last "legitimately" elected President.

Why does Senator Sessions hate America?
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Clark2008 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-26-05 10:39 AM
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22. I love The Who.
Just so you know.

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Clark2008 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-26-05 10:35 AM
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20. Yeah, I wrote the idiot.
My Dad and step-Mother live in Alabama, so I used their address to fill out the email form on his website.

I posted the letter here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4883021&mesg_id=4883352
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MelissaB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-26-05 10:37 AM
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21. Thank you!
I'll bet you will get a reply that really ticks you off. Please keep me posted. :hi:
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Clark2008 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-26-05 10:40 AM
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24. Did you know Huntsville (where my parents live)
loves Wesley Clark so much they actually named a street after him?

Seriously, the have all these streets named after generals and there is a Wesley Clark Drive in Huntsville.

Cute. :)
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MelissaB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-26-05 10:50 AM
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25. I didn't know that.
We go to Hsv. fairly often becasue my son plays hockey. Can you tell me where it is? The next time we go I'll look for it.
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Ladyhawk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-26-05 10:39 AM
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23. No, Senator. Anti-war demonstrators are looking first at the beam
in our own eye.
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Toots Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-26-05 10:53 AM
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26. Well we all know America is never to blame for anything......
And Bush* is even less to blame.......:shrug: got soundbite??
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baby_mouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-26-05 01:09 PM
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27. Nursery rhyme logic, nursery rhyme thinking... n/t
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skooooo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-26-05 06:24 PM
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28. kick
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