Annual Protest draws Ire of those supporting Troops

[raysr]

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/21/national/21benning.html
So there's no way anyone protesting this administration is ever going to be perceived as supporting the troops. Just forget it and don't waste your breath. If you don't support Bush you don't support the troops. Fine, I didn't support them anyway. Fuck-it.

"COLUMBUS, Ga., Nov. 20 - They arrived by the busload this weekend in this Southern river city, protesters from St. Louis, Chicago, San Francisco and other cities across the country, slightly bedraggled, clutching boxes of cereal, which, it turns out, is a young protester's M.R.E."

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[datadiva]

1. Maybe but

I kind of liked the way the article ended at any rate:

Still, at midnight Saturday a group of soldiers recently graduated from basic training staying at the downtown Marriott ran into a group of college women by the lobby elevators.

A debate started (accompanied by a few flirtatious remarks by the soldiers), but it ended suddenly when both sides said the same thing: they just wanted to help the Iraqi people.

The soldiers said they expected to be shipped off to Iraq soon.

"We'll do everything we can to get you back safe," said a youth minister with the women, alluding to his hope that the protests would help bring the troops home. "That's what we do."

[harlinchi]

2. In a different post on this article some implied baby-killer is an...

...appropriate name for returning soldiers. I disagreed.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=2266921&mesg_id=2266921

Protesters around military bases should be clear that they are not protesting the members of the military but the policies they are forced to defend.

[raysr]

3. It's the media that portrays

us non-Bushies as not supporting the troops futher fuelling that lie.