4 years of FAILURE to get Bin Laden & they're having a Parade?

[mopaul]

the war pigs are putting on a party and parade this sunday to commemorate the 4 year anniversary of 9/11. i won't be attending.

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0817-24.htm

The 9/11 commemoration is to include a concert featuring country singer Clint Black singing "Iraq and I Roll," whose lyrics include this stanza: "You can wave your signs in protest against America taking stands; the stands America's taken are the reason that you can." Another notes: "It might be a smart bomb, they find stupid people too, and if you stand with the likes of Saddam, one just might find you."


The Pentagon's event could work to the advantage of the war protesters. Until recently, they had achieved relatively little success in drawing news media attention to the anti-war movement. This minor dust-up in the press could oblige the sponsoring news outlets, and the Post, to pay more attention to the Sept. 24 protest march, part of a three-day event.

The two marches will occur as opposition to the war has begun to draw more coverage. The 20 deaths suffered by a single Marine Reserve unit in Ohio in two days earlier this month, and a special election near-upset by a harsh anti-war Democratic candidate in a longtime Republican congressional district in the state, were both widely reported.

[KG]

1. war is peace! ignorance is strength! failure is success!

[Mein Bush]

31. KG = 1984

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. Hmm, seems ripe for street theatre among spectators

Waves of mooning, puppets, arrows through head, spontaneous outbursts of singing?

[ima_sinnic]

3. people need to go in OBL costumes and mock the shit out of them

LOSERS

[mopaul]

4. QUICK--we need 100 DANCING BIN LADENS! now yer talkin'!

[ima_sinnic]

6. OBLs with signs like "thanks for everything, George!"

[soup]

23. singing 'I Love a Parade' (or some updated version of it)

1932
Performer: Arden-Ohman
Title: I Love A Parade

Lyrictext:
I love a parade,the tramping of feet,
I love every beat I hear of a drum.
I love a parade, when I hear a band
I just want to stand and cheer as they come.
That rat-a tat-tat, the blare of a horn.
That rat-a tat-tat, a bright uniform;
The sight of a drill will give me a thrill,
I thrill at the skill of everything military.
I love a parade, a handful of vets,
A line of cadets or any brigade,
For I love a parade.
http://www.lyricsvault.net/songs/18081.html

[Oeditpus Rex]

5. I'm amazed they're still doing this

Beginning last week I kept thinking they'd call it off out of simple fucking RESPECT for all those people along the Gulf Coast, but I guess there's not even that much compassion in the "compassionate conservatives."

So y'know what? Let them trot out their flags and their "Mission Accomplished" banners and their guitar-strumming, jingoistic drugstore cowboys. Every sane person on the planet will view it as an obscene, über-patriotic simile of the Nuremberg rallies and another slap in the faces of the victims of Katrina. It'll tell the world, "We can't take care of our own, but, by gosh, we can sure kick us some Eye-racky ass!"

God bless America, indeed.

[Disturbed]

8. This asshole Clint Black...

stated on TV that Amerika got back at the ones that attacked Amerika. It is disgusting that this jerk and others spout this lie on natl. airwaves.

[ClintonTyree]

12. Let's face it.........

any guy who has to wear a cowboy costume to gain attention isn't much of man to begin with. These backwoods, jingoistic, rabble rousers aren't the brightest bulbs on the Christmas tree and their "fans" are even less endowed in the cerebral arts.
They appeal to the most base emotions of human existence and speak for a demographic that probably couldn't find "eye-rack" on a world map with all other countries blacked out. They're not intelligent enough to realize that the very people they support in government DO NOT have their best interests in mind. As long as they appeal to their simplistic world views, well buy gum, they've got MY vote!
These are people who view NASCAR as a cultural event and Budweiser as the elixir of the gods.
This country will forever be mired in it's ignorant complacency as long as these people don't educate themselves on "things world" and not things "Main Street USA".

[Algorem]

17. those dopey black cowboy hats might be made using mercury

[gauguin57]

20. LOL, Algorem!

Now THAT's funny ... The Mad Hatters. Now I understand why all these cowboys stand shoulder to shoulder with George "MADDER Than a Hatter" Bush.

From Wikipedia:
"The phrase "Mad as a Hatter" existed long before the (Alice in Wonderland) character, and may derive from the harmful effects of chemicals, such as mercury, formerly used in hat-making."

[Warren DeMontague]

30. You mean THIS guy?

Hmmmmm. I think I know why Bush likes him.



Oooooo! Rough Trade, Indeed!

[Marnieworld]

33. Out of respect? Puhleeeze!

They have no respect and they can't even muster enough to figure out how to fake it. That infuriates me. They are so arrogant that they go shoe shopping, to a beach resort, and to a baseball game while NOLA started to drown. Then after this shame they still don't realize that NOW IS NOT THE TIME FOR A FUCKING PARADE!!!???

Up to now they spun their web of bullshit and controlled official reality. They are clueless and panicking because they can't do this now.

Freedom parade is chosen people on a barbed wire path. A miltary march symbolizing freedom? Aye Carumba!

[Skidmore]

7. Rove is sure a one-trick pony, isn't he?

These gimmicks will wear thin with the people. Patriotism I think is being redefined in the wake of Katrina, and people are realizing that we have more to fear from a a very real enemy within than from a mythologized enemy without.

[moodforaday]

9. self-delete

(just quoted the part that was in OP)

[Ganja Ninja]

10. Totally oblivious to the mood of the country they want to throw a ..

party. It's as if they just keep a smiley face on and pretend not to notice the rising anger all around them that everyone will join in and the country will unite in blissful ignorance. This bunch is hopelessly stupid. I think we really need some form of reeducation for them.

[freemen2005]

11. Hitler gave parades to gain favour from the populace too....

[GeorgeBushytail]

13. Show up and Build Bushville, DC - Civil Disobedience on 9/11

www.bushville.org

We have to stop being so damned polite to the government. Sometimes you need to bring thousands of angry people to camp on their doorstep.

Please plug www.bushville.org in emails to your friends. There isn't much time left to spoil Clint Black's composure.

[tonekat]

14. Nothing says "freedom" like a closed march!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/08/AR2005090802140.html

Oh yeah, when I think "freedom" I think of fences, hovering legions of police, and a restricted media! More proof that this failed administration has nothing but contempt for and fear of it's own citizens. Ah, but the 'necks who participate will get a t-shirt to wear to the next tractor pull!

[mopaul]

22. we're having a patriotic parade and YOU arent' invited!

[txindy]

15. I can't wait for this event

If Junior thinks his poll numbers have tanked now, wait until the gumbo hits the fan after the public sees this appalling selfishness on display in a self-serving parade in DC.

Note to media: Please show the recovery/cleanup efforts in NO - the retrieval of bodies - in a split screen along with this fascist display of arrogance in DC. They will indeed be taking place at the exact same time.

[BringEmOn]

16. My Pet Goat ...everywhere!

Scared rabbit running from hidey hole to hidey hole on 911

[malta blue]

18. You got it!

The exploitation of death is what gets the pig fuckers in a partying mood.

[freemen2005]

19. Anyone that goes is a TRAITOR TO THE NATION

[ComerPerro]

21. Four questions for Mr. Clint Black

One: He says that "the stands America's taken are the reason that you can (protest)." In what way were our basic rights and our freedoms threatened by Iraq?

Two: If indeed our freedoms and our very security are being protected by this war, why the hell hasn't he enlisted? Why isn't he encouraging people to enlist and protect our freedoms?

Three: When listing America's stands, does he include "putting a boot in your ass"?

Four: How does it feel to exploit war and death to try and turn a profit? Is he so washed up and out of ideas that he has to resort to whoring patritoic emotions to reach his audience?

[leftofthedial]

24. Hooray for us! We suck! We failed! Hooray!

I used to like Clint Black.

[HughBeaumont]

25. "You can wave your signs in protest against America taking stands?"

Once again, dicko, exactly WHY was there a need to take a stand against a sanction and war-ravaged nation that did nothing to us?

[KansDem]

26. Will bin Laden will be the Grand Marshall?

Riding at the front of the parade in a HumVee convertible?

[mopaul]

27. sept. 11th sept. 11th sept. 11th sept. 11th sept. 11th sept. 11th sept. 11

sept. 11th sept. 11th sept. 11th sept. 11th

[DemocratSinceBirth]

28. They're Saving Bin Laden In Gitmo To Roll Out Before The Mid Term Election

JK

[mopaul]

29. the big parade is tomorrow! woo woo and woo

[mopaul]

32. iiiiiiii love a parade!

[tinrobot]

34. Why aren't those troops helping in New Orleans or Mississippi?

Seriously, these idiots are setting themselves up for even more criticism.

They should have canceled it last week.