Gwinnett.talk

By John Dunn

October 9, 2007 7:53 AM | Link to this

35 protesters for a city with 15,000 constituents. Very successful.

By LilburnDazed

October 9, 2007 9:23 AM | Link to this

At least they did something.

By Buzz Brockway

October 9, 2007 9:44 AM | Link to this

John, when you count “overwhelming support from the passers-by” they’re support was probably in the millions. ;-)

By Bruce Wicox

October 9, 2007 11:37 AM | Link to this

If they still had the draft you would see massive peace rallys right here in the very red Gwinnett. If there was even a remote chance that Dear Lil Johnny may actually be forced to serve his country they would be marching every weekend. But as long a someone else fights the fight why should anyone else be bothered.

Health care for children, bush is worried about protecting private insurance companies, not children. He will need healthy children to send off to die in his war. It is just common sense that a healthy child costs less in the long one, than the one that ends up in an emergency room because of lack of health care.

Dorothy Shaw has more backbone thn most of th AJC’s writers and our own United States Senators. Go Dorothy!

By Bruce Wicox

October 9, 2007 11:37 AM | Link to this

If they still had the draft you would see massive peace rallys right here in the very red Gwinnett. If there was even a remote chance that Dear Lil Johnny may actually be forced to serve his country they would be marching every weekend. But as long a someone else fights the fight why should anyone else be bothered.

Health care for children, bush is worried about protecting private insurance companies, not children. He will need healthy children to send off to die in his war. It is just common sense that a healthy child costs less in the long one, than the one that ends up in an emergency room because of lack of health care.

Dorothy Shaw has more backbone thn most of th AJC’s writers and our own United States Senators. Go Dorothy!

By John Dunn

October 9, 2007 12:40 PM | Link to this

Bruce, we don’t have a draft. “Ifs” are for children. What we do have is an extremely small percentage of Americans fighting and dying for our freedom to argue on this website. Supporting the troops means you support the mission.

By Gorky Parker

October 9, 2007 12:54 PM | Link to this

Move On is akin to socialism and fanaticism. I say keep them off the streets and in the Gulag where they belong! John Kerry is part of that right?

By rob l

October 9, 2007 1:56 PM | Link to this

Let me guess, Brucey driving around the block 50 times and honking his horn equals alot of support. And thirty five people WOW! GOOD FOR YOU! Do us a favor Dorothy , go back to Kansas and take Bruce the scarecrow with you.

By Bruce Wicox

October 9, 2007 3:27 PM | Link to this

John Kerry fought in Nam, Saxby had a bad knee, Max lost both legs and an arm in Nam, Sax still had a bad knee.

John Dunn, ““Ifs” are for children” so when bush says “If” the surge works, finally we have a plan that works he is being childish?

Any of you winners would like to explain to me how invading Iraq under false pretenses and creating more terrorism is fighting for our freedom?

Anyone remember bin Laden, the one who actually attacked us, the one bush was going to get dead or alive, has he been caught yet?

If any of you could discuss the issue intelligently I would be more than happy to oblige. Otherwise I’ll just sit back and enjoy the insults from the lemmings, knowing why Georgia is on the bottom of the educational ladder.

By John Dunn

October 9, 2007 10:00 PM | Link to this

Bruce,

A political lemming is one who cannot deviate from his party’s talking points. You apparently are just another moveon.org radical who believes this war was about WMD and WMD alone. Saddam had WMD and had used them on his own people. Yes, WMD had something to do with it, and we found alot of it. Check out the Duelfer Report: http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/duelfer.html

Facts are stubborn things, Bruce.

We also invaded because Saddam Hussein was a gathering threat to his neighbors. He proved his willingness to do so with Iran and Kuwait.

We invaded because he was in violation of a series of UN resolutions ( http://www.casi.org.uk/info/scriraq.html ), which he was certain people like you would prevent us from enforcing.

Where is bin Laden? Do you for one minute believe that killing him will make the bad men stop?

The surge is working, Bruce. We are winning, hence your cause is lost. Even your presidential candidates will not commit to troop withdrawal before the year 2013.

By Bruce Wicox

October 9, 2007 11:50 PM | Link to this

Saddam was a strong ally of the United States when he used chemical weapons against his own people, we knew, yet we did nothing.

A gathering threat to his neighbors, you’re just joking here right? Saddam did not have a functional air force, an army with outdated weapons, no navy and the best yet, no wmd’s as proven by his own hand-picked inspector.

United Nations, now is this the same United Nations that refused to give bush and blair their blessing in invading Iraq? If so, they must have not felt it was that important to kill thousands for violating economic scantions.

Isn’t also true when speaking of the Uniited Nations that Saddam allowed the inspectors back in the fall before the invasion? Is it not also true that they, even with charts, photos and maps provided by the United States, could not find any wmd’s?

“Where is bin Laden? Do you for one minute believe that killing him will make the bad men stop?” So does this mean you have surrended, the bin Laden who created 9/11 is not important anymore, that bin Laden has won, how sad. To protect incompetence, the boogyman became Saddam, he’s dead, tell me, who is the boogyman now?

The surge is working, for how long? Is it another “Mission Accomplished” time? After four years this great country of ours has finally found a general that can win? What about the Iraqi government? If they do not fight for their own democracy, why do our soldiers die for it?

Why should we be paying top dollar to private companies to provide over 70,000 security agents to support our troops in Iraq? Tell me how this war is run when we pay private firm employees more in one month than our soldiers make in a year? Why is our military so drained that we have to have hired guns do the work we should be doing?

You want to really support our troops, pay them what we pay the hired guns. Rotate them home the same way the hire guns are rotated. Give them the same benefits, that is supporting our troops, anything less is criminal.

I am a Liberal, that is my only label, the Democrats can not match it and the GOP certainly can not. Moveon has the same rights as the Swift Boaters or does Free Speech only go one way in the South?

By Michael H. Smith

October 10, 2007 3:28 AM | Link to this

Queen Hillary promises to have all the troops out by the end of her second term in office. So why do all her loyal subjects rant and rave, march and moveon.org , have they no faith in her highness, their Queen?

By Andrew

October 10, 2007 4:15 AM | Link to this

Last tine I checked we did invade Iraq for WMD’s (graciously supplied by Reagan, Bush Sr, and Co. to be used against Iran).

Besides, how can anyone who puts down the UN then use the UN as justification for war?

Israel right now is violating UN resolutions, but we arn’t bombing the crap out of them.

North Korea has nukes, and threatens to use them (hell they export them) and Bush does nothing, while hundreds of thousands of NK people are in concentration camps.