So, all you liberal "patriotic" war protesters, WHERE IS THE PROTEST? Let me get this straight, for close to 6 years the Left and some on the Right have been decrying the U.S. involvement in starting wars with Iraq and Afghanistan. I get it. I personally believe in military involvement when and only when we are attacked. I also believe that the entire Iraqi debacle was unwise and unethical. We just can't go around and put our noses in another country's business. As we respect our own sovereignty, we must respect others as well. For six years we saw the likes of Cindy Sheehan and A.N.S.W.E.R. protest how corrupt the war in Iraq was and how we must leave IMMEDIATELY. Fine. And when liberals were labled, incorrectly, as traitors for protesting the war, the left correctly retorted that patriotic dissent is American and it is their 1st amendment rights to protest the war. Absolutely, 100% right. Americans have every right to protest whenever they preceive an injustice being made. Even the MSM was in on this "protest." In their way of disguising opinion pieces as unbiased news, the "death tolls" began circulating. "34 U.S. servicwemen died in Iraq today" would be how most news shows would open. We were even seeing news specials on televison marking the 1,000th American death. Anything to remind Americans that we were still engaged in an "unjust" war was fair game. And then I had a few run-ins with liberals when I stated that some, if not most, of the protesting wasn't against the war, per se, but an excuse to espouse hate upon a sitting president. I get it. The left felt betrayed by their government engaging in what they preceived to be selfish, vindictive reasons to invade another country.
Now, flash ahead to August 26, 2009. Barack Obama and the democrats have taken over Washington, D.C. They own all three branches of government through fair and democratic elections. Obama has funded the Iraq and Afghanistan wars in the Omnibus bill and even led a troop surge in Afghanistan to boot. Americans are still dying. Where is the protests? We now hear barely a peep about our involvement in 2 wars in the form of protests when servicemen are still dying. Are their deaths less important now that a liberal democrat is in the WH? Where are the Cindy Sheehan's? Why hasn't she stood out in front of the White House or Obama's family home in Chicago and protest that he get our servicemen home? Where are all the protesters now that a liberal democrat is in the WH? Has both wars suddenly ended? See, this just reinforces the fact that the liberals, while perhaps at one time protesting the war, were now focusing their hate not on protesting the war but on President Bush. And now that we see Americans protest their Government's willingness to stick their nose into my - our - health care and the liberals declare those protesters as "brownshirts" or "racists" is completely hypocritical and, quite frankly, un American. If it is un American to protest at townhalls, as is our fundamental right as American citizens, it is equally un American to protest and espouse hate towards a sitting president and mask it under the false pretense that it was the war. Where are the protesters now? Where are the death tolls? Since there is Obama in the WH, does the left even really care anymore about Iraq and Afghanistan? They sure as heck have no moral ground declaring townhall protesters as racists as the liberals have now shown that all they really cared about was puking their hate upon a conservative president and not the war(s). Where are the protests?
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