Embarrassing Pics from "We Love Bush*s War No Matter What" Rally

[bvar22]

At least these people stay on topic!
The crowds (?) are PATHETIC!


For lurking Freeps:

*Iraq did NOT attack the USA!

*Saddam did NOT have ANYTHING to do with 9-11!

*Our troops in Iraq are NOT defending OUR Freedom!

*The Iraqi's do NOT want to come over here and take away OUR freedoms!

*Christianity was acceptable in Saddam's Iraq.
Christian Churches were OPEN and ATTENDED

*There were NO terrorists training camps in Iraq.

*There was NO relationship between Saddam and Al Qaeda.

*The people who attacked the USA were in Afghanistan. They are STILL hiding in Afghanistan. Osama is STILL free! We are wasting TIME, LIVES, and MONEY in Iraq!

*Killing more innocent Iraqis will NOT win the War on Terror!

*There were NO Madrases in Iraq!

*We are NOT winning in Iraq (or Afghanistan). It is getting WORSE!

*There is NO coalition!

*Your pResident is LYING to you! Get a clue!




The Republican Ownership Society

The FACE of Compassionate Conservatism

[moobu2]

1. "tens of people" lol

[wryter2000]

5. Good for that man

:applause:

[degreesofgray]

14. Is this a pic

of James Garner, or is it a convincing look-alike?

[Straight Shooter]

19. That man is Jeb Ebby of San Francisco.

It's either Ebby or Eddy. Anyway, he's for real. It's an AP photo. A classic.

[tuvor]

2. If only Clint Black were headlining...

...they might've had as big a crowd as at the "Freedom Walk".

You guys don't look quite like a country divided.

[txindy]

32. The only thing divided about us is media vs. reality

The M$M does not work for us. They are not interested in objectivity. They have been bought by the wingnuts.

[yankeeinlouisiana]

3. What happened to the flag?

n/t

[Rainscents]

6. I don't know, I'm wondering that about myself!

It looks like (from my computer), bunch of burn marks.

[bvar22]

12. Shit stains!

:rofl:

They desecrated the flag backdrop by (supposedly) having children write messages on it!

I'll try to get a close up.

[Scurrilous]

17. Somewhere....

...a car dealership is missing a flag.

[Im with Rosey]

18. LOL

[Cookie wookie]

22. Bullet holes?

Maybe the freepers were doing rambo practice and missed.

[Sparkly]

4. "Support the Troops: Get More of Them Injured and Killed!!"

Well, it's how they recruit for their Gold Star Families group.

Is there another group for families of wounded veterans who don't have adequate healthcare? Maybe that's something they could rally around, too. :sarcasm:

[wryter2000]

7. Okay, they convinced me

Everything I ever learned was wrong. We need to wage this war so we can have peace. :sarcasm:

[Arugula Latte]

40. Me too. Can't wait to enlist my children!

:patriot:

[wryter2000]

8. Sheeze

sorry

[wryter2000]

9. two dupes?

Boy is my face red.

[Toasted_Halo]

10. LOL!

I should order a pizza and send it there, in case their entire crowd is hungry.

[goclark]

21. Make that a small pizza - a mini pizza

[Bernardo de La Paz]

11. Have they shot the flag full of holes?

They want to use it so badly they had to abuse it?

[ruggerson]

13. "tens of people" ROFL n/t

[WritingIsMyReligion]

15. TENS!! Woo-hoo!

They sure know how to kick the protest up a notch, don't they? ;-)

Gotta love those blind, dumb (!!), and deaf war-mongering Freep-Creeps. :sarcasm:

[DemonFighterLives]

16. Thanks Bvar!

Seems to be a little room between the flags and banners for some more hawks.
kicked and nominated
:dem:

[yorkiemommie1]

20. PNAC / Downing Street Minutes, read, read and learn

PNAC / Downing Street Minutes
http://www.newamericancentury.org/

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1593607,00.html


Freepers, ' Intelligent minds ask questions . '

[joanne]

25. Wow!

I've had more than that over to dinner. :rofl:

[Scout1071]

28. I was at a wedding last night that had more people than this freeper rally

And it wasn't even that large of a wedding!

[Scout1071]

29. I was at a wedding last night that had more people than this freeper rally

And it wasn't even that large of a wedding!

[KnowerOfLogic]

23. WTF? "Rally to honor military families"???? Does that mean the peace

rally was a "Rally to *dis-honor* military families"??? Jeezus H. Christ; it was a PRO-WAR rally and a PRO-BUSH rally; nothing more, nothing less.

[John Q. Citizen]

24. I feel sorry for the military families who have lost loved ones

who are being used by these people.

[louis-t]

26. Uh, and as far as lowering troop morale?

Telling them they have to stay for another 'tour', not supplying proper armor, making them witness (and sometimes accesory)to torture, drawing targets on their backs, not allowing Louisiana soldiers to come home after hurricane and take care of families......as opposed to saying "you're all coming home next week". Which is better for morale?

[SaveAmerica]

27. Speaking of lurking freepers, what do you think yawn and yawnerer's

screen names are here on DU? The most telling picture is the one where Jan would be; this is from the very back of the 'group' and you can see the sectioned off part where some people were corraled in cowpens. There are about 30 (being generous) behind the pens and about 30 each inside the 2 pens and the goldstars who sat on the chairs. And how many of those in the crowds were paraded onto the stage to speak? What percentage of the 'crowd' was there because they had a speaking part in the production? And, I'll go back and look, but yahoo (who didn't have a news blurb on their front page for the longest time yesterday about our rally) is saying they had 400.

Here's link:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050925/ap_on_re_us/war_rally

About 400 people gathered near a stage on an eastern segment of the mall, a large patchwork American flag serving as a backdrop. Amid banners and signs proclaiming support for U.S. troops, several speakers hailed the effort to bring democracy to Iraq and
Afghanistan and denounced those who protest it.

[Jo March]

35. MSM was reporting 100s of them yesterday but I didn't see that many

I counted 2 at the beginning of the rally, then 2 more and then about 15 on the sides of the street.

All in all, I saw about 20 and I was looking for them. I'm not saying that there might not have been about 200 there along the entire march route but they were spread pretty thin and they were pretty darn quiet.

[SaveAmerica]

42. Were you live on the scene? Did you get to go? If you say yes, I

warn you, I'll be very jealous.

[Jo March]

45. I got to go! I was "live" on the streets and it was AWESOME!!

DC is the largest city I've ever been to and I was a bit of a bumpkin but it was great. I had a clan of DUers to guide me and it was just wonderful. I hovered between tears, laughter, joy and amazement the whole time. I wish it could have gone on forever. Alas, I had to leave after the march on Sat. to drive back to North Carolina.

[Imagevision]

30. They keep playing the Iraq-9-11 tie-in???

[Kenergy]

31. Good post n/t

[XanaDUer]

33. Now some guy in on yelling and calling names.

Typical crappola.

God, these people are sad and sick.

[MADem]

34. I especially enjoyed the clown who called their group the

SILENT MAJORITY.

Yeah, right--that's the line Nixon used before he threw in the towel.

The shark has been jumped, folks, the Potemkin Village has collapsed.

Took way too long, and there's still work to do, but they have been revealed at long last, and in EXCRUICIATING detail, for what they are--a bunch of mindless, stupid, nitwits. Sad, pathetic people.

They're like people who have been the victims of a con artist, but are too ashamed to report that they have been fooled to the police; so they carry on as though everything is just fine!

[giant_robot]

36. LOL! Silent majority?

More like the "invisible majority" or "imaginary majority", imho!

[MADem]

55. Better yet, loudmouthed minority!!!! nt

[electron_blue]

37. Notice that not even they claim their rally was to support the IRaq war

Their signs are about supporting the troops, supporting military families, supporting people over there.

Even they are not bold enough to make signs saying they support the *reason* behind all the sacrifices, suffering and death of the troops and their families.

They can't shake loose of this idea that many of our troops were killed or injured based on lies, or at best - reasons that no longer exist. They can't stand to think their friends/family members died in vain. It's a tough spot to be in - not all of them are going to make the break from that.

eta: I just have to howl at the pics used on CNN's website about the "counter-rally". They used pics from the "peace" rally yesterday!! They were probably too embarrassed to show how few people showed up for the "war" rally. LOL!

[indepat]

38. None of those reasons mattered to the chickenhawks who had PNAC on their

minds or so it would seem.

[Melsky]

39. I can't believe that even made the news

Silent majority my ass!

[rucky]

41. Silly White People! n/t

[B Calm]

43. The one gold star dad that held up the cross he stolen from

Camp Casey, then turned around and bad mouthed Cindy, really made me ill. There is one difference between him an I. If my son had died for a pack of lies, my love for my son would make me march to the White House and the secret service would probably have to kill me.

[jbnow]

44. I wonder if some parents

whose children died believe the war is a good cause and keep believing because they MUST. It must feel better to believe your child died for an honorable cause. If you accepted that it was a pack of lies the pain would be too much. They might be easy to "use" because the louder they declare the rightness of the war and the more they can surround themselves with others who believe it the less chance there is that the truth will set in. It hurts to lose illusions and your child.

[B Calm]

46. You're right! They put down Cindy because they know what she's

saying is the truth. They can't face the truth that their sons and daughters died in vain. I never seen Cindy put the pro war gold star parents down. Could it be too humiliating for them to face the truth?..

[karlrschneider]

49. Nobody wants to admit they've been scammed. It's an admission of

stupidity...that is why con artists are still around and profiting handsomely. Same goes for rape victims, it's embarrassing. And it shouldn't be, but the judgmental attitudes of rightwing type people is pervasive...blame the victim.
So it's a vicious circle.

[smoogatz]

47. Hmmm--looks like a few able-bodied young men in the "crowd"

We should've sent somebody over to hand out recruiting brochures.

[Piperay]

48. Realistically they don't have to have

thousands of people they are already getting what they want.

[yellowcanine]

50. Wow! I hope there were enough portapotties to handle that crowd.

[Rex]

51. Thanks for showing us the size of the rally!

To bad the MSM will portray it as being hugh, while the Peace rally will be shown as tiny.

Who was on porta potty patrol I wonder?

[rbajai]

52. Every one of your points is 100% ABSOLUTELY CORRECT.

Unfortunately there is a persistent willing ignorance and naivate that persists amongst members of the freeper/evangelical christian community.

I simply don't get it. They completely ignore the facts that are staring them in the face and would rather resort to believing the lies * spouts out to them on a daily basis. I swear, if Bush rounded up all these people, threw them in concentration camps, and fed them rat poison, they'd not only eat the poison, they'd thank Bush for giving it to them and eat it believing they are doing their fearless leader a service.

It is akin to trying to convince your best friend that they are in a cult. They refuse to listen, and worse, they scoff at you and deny their cult membership to the HILT. The cult is dangerous and you know that. But trying to make them see this is very, very difficult.

Scary. I hope more people wake up.

[bluecrush]

53. It's amazing

so "many" people showed up.

[MADem]

56. And the irony is, they got a ton of lead media airtime to push this event

The only reason I knew about this pathetic exercise is because I heard about it on the lamestream news.

Most of the march information on SAT I got from this forum, but that did not seem to deter attendance.

It just is hard to sell a BAD idea. And when you couple it with bad execution, bad speakers, bad concepts, and...my EARS, MY EARS!!!!...profoundly BAD MUSIC, it is no wonder people would rather stay home and watch football!!!

[Alamom]

54. Great Post. May I add, THERE ARE MORE TERRORISTS NOW

THAN EVER BEFORE AND THEY HATE US MORE THAN EVER.


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