Very polite hand-picked audience, clapping on cue at all Chimp's tired cliches

[Atman]

This is sickening...how many years has this been going on, and we're STILL hearing the same speech? And who are these people STILL clapping for it? Fool me once, fool me again, bend me over, fool me a few more times -- and what, not even a reach-around?

:banghead:


ON EDIT: I didn't mean "who are these people" to be taken literally -- obviously they're American Legion, so they're naturally more receptive. But you think they'd at least be a little ashamed of this man.

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[BOSSHOG]

1. Is his audience the VFW?

I told the bastards as long as they keep giving bush and cheney standing ovation they ain't getting a penny from me. There are too many other ways to assist vets then to buddy up with those old republican enabling dumbasses. War, war, war and more war.

[meegbear]

2. The American Legion ...

Legion: Congress Sent Wrong Message Today

WASHINGTON, February 16, 2007 - Paul A. Morin, national commander of The American Legion, the nation’s largest wartime veterans’ organization, provided the following statement in response to the House vote disapproving the President’s decision to deploy more than 20,000 additional combat troops to the Iraqi theater.

“Congress may consider its vote today on H. Con. Res. 63 to be non-binding, but veterans of previous wars and those in the field of combat right now consider Congress’s action to be a betrayal of trust and the first step toward surrender to the terrorists who caused this war in the first place.

<snip>

“Even the Clinton administration tried to kill Osama bin Laden by lobbing missiles at him. This war didn’t just start with the invasion of Iraq. It’s been going on for decades. It’s been going on in Republican and Democrat administrations and Congresses.

<snip>

“The Speaker characterized it succinctly when she said, “(t)his legislation will signal a change in direction that will end the fighting and bring our troops home.’

“What she failed to add was ‘… in defeat, and without completing the mission they were trained to complete and ready to win if only America had not given up before they did.’

“The American Legion and the American people find this to be totally unacceptable and we will do everything within our power to ensure that our troops are not used as political pawns by a Congress that lacks the will to win.”

http://www.legion.org/?section=pub_relations&subsection=pr_listreleases&content=pr_press_release&id=430

[katmondoo]

3. But it's OK to be political pawns of the president