Bush-loving war-supporting GOPer spits on the troops

[Fresh_Start]

http://blog.syracuse.com/news/2007/03/syracuse_woman_explains_why_sh.html

[AX10]

1. K & R!

I read this yesterday. There is another thread on this.
I have no doubt that those who "spat upon the troops" (if this spitting event even occured) returning from Vietnam were right wingers trying to make the anti-war advocates look bad. It's in the conservative bag of dirty tricks.

[The_Casual_Observer]

3. It would be great to see a reward offered for any proof that anybody

returning from Vietnam actually got spit on.

[Ian David]

4. Nobody has EVER documented that ANYONE ever spat upon the Vietnam Vets. It's an Urban Legend. n/t

[verse18]

5. Registered Liberal???

SyrMom says...

Hmmm, one of the forums on syracuse.com has her listed as a registered Liberal who only voted in 2000 and 2002. (according to the BOE).

She lied under oath?

Posted on 03/20/07 at 7:25PM


Boy these trolls are a 'special' breed.

[AX10]

6. How much did the Repubs pay her to change her story?

[bvar22]

11. OMG. I didn't know I had to register.

I'm a regestered Democrat, but I never registered as a Liberal.
Where do I go to register?

[mrreowwr_kittty]

12. Was that a Canadian troll or something?

There's no Liberal party here that I'm aware of.

[Old and In the Way]

7. Old professor of mine wrote the book.

Jerry Lembke wrote a book on how this old wive's tale became part of the right wing conventional wisdom.

http://www.amazon.com/Spitting-Image-Memory-Legacy-Vietnam/dp/customer-reviews/0814751474

No documented evidence. But when did that stop a good rightwing lie?

[Ian David]

2. I do believe this is the first documented case of someone actually spitting on a soldier...

and it turns out to be a LOYAL BUSHIE.

[LynnTheDem]

8. Not quite; during Vietnam, a group of WWII veterans marched

protesting the 'Nam war. They were spat on.

By rightwingnuts.

And that's a documented fact.

[Ian David]

9. But it's never been anti-war people doing the spitting, has it? n/t

[LynnTheDem]

13. No documented evidence of any such happening.

But why would Nixon lie and start such a myth??! Why, that's like thinking George W. bUsh would lie for political gain!

[trumad]

10. K@R