Republican Bloggers attack Vietnam Vets

For some strange reason, certain Republican National bloggers and some in Virginia are attacking Vietnam vets and their families. I noticed it, and I could not for the life of me figure out why. Reading with interest, I quickly found out why. According to them, Vietnam Vets and their friends, families, and supporters are planning to desecrate the Wall in DC on March 17, 2007. I read that and I was SHOCKED. Who would do such a thing? And why? As a child of a Vietnam vet and a person with familiar names on that wall, I was very offended.

But then I remembered that fact is not fiction, and vice versa. I did a quick Google search and I was HORRIFIED to see that the Republican bloggers of Virginia were lying and defaming our brave soldiers, past and present.

I don't care who you are and what you believe in politically, but you better damn well watch yourself if you are going to defame our brave veterans. Excuse me, but how dare you, and who do you think you are?

You know, I have gotten over some personal gripes with Republican bloggers in the past, but I cannot stand liars. Because certain sad Republican bloggers are spreading a vicious and despicable lie about American citizens and Vietnam Veterans, I feel I have to post the truth. The truth:

Tens of thousands of people will be gathering at Constitution Gardens at 12 noon near the Vietnam Memorial prior to the March on the Pentagon on Saturday, March 17. We will not be in the Vietnam Memorial and all speakers for amplified sound are turned away from the Memorial so as not to interfere with family members visiting the site. Constitution Gardens is the same location that ANSWER used for its mass anti-war rally on October 26, 2002. On March 17, 2007 we will leave Constitution Gardens and march on Constitution Ave. and then to Virginia on the way to the Pentagon.

The 58,000 U.S. soldiers who lost their lives in Vietnam and the millions of Vietnamese who were killed, died in a criminal war. The connection between Vietnam and Iraq could not be more clear. Iraq is also a criminal war of aggression. The central issue today, just as it was in 1967, is to bring the war to an end.

Thousands of veterans and military families, including those who have lost loved ones in Iraq, will be in the front ranks of the March on the Pentagon. Some tiny pro-Bush groups who support the war in Iraq, and who normally mobilize about 25 people to hold signs when massive antiwar protests take place, are now callously trying to manipulate Vietnam veterans by spreading rumors that the March on the Pentagon will defile the Vietnam Memorial. This lie should be treated with the same contempt that people have for the other lies promoted by Bush and his followers to justify an illegal war of aggression: Iraq had Weapons of Mass Destruction; Iraq was responsible for the September 11 attacks; and that the U.S. occupation would be greeted as an act of liberation by the Iraqi people. Enough lies. Enough deceit!

Honestly, the people defaming our veterans should be ashamed at their disgusting nature and support of the spreading of misinformation, or non-information if you will. To lump all against the war into a description of the worst of the worst is unfair, demoralizing, and hateful. Sorry, but like it or not, Vietnam vets are part of the anti-war group, so if you choose to bash every member, you are unknowingly and wrongly bashing Veterans and their families, friends, and supporters. I don't know if I can ever again believe that any one of the offending bloggers supports the troops, the Constitution, or the United States of America.

Update: More info here on the "peaceful pro war group" the Gathering of the Eagles (you can read their spokespeople call Democrats communists at that site if you like, or you can buy a T-Shirt that claims it's ok to kill liberals from their site here); seems they have members whom are just as hateful and violent than idiotic anti-authoritarian morons who show up at rallies. Hopefully, police will take care of anyone who acts inappropriately at the memorial. I realize the war supporters think that they have no violence on their side, but I also hope that they realize that they are not above the law. Their claims to be more moral than the rest of the country will still land them in jail for doing the things the group claims to want to do to protesters here (warning-pretty violent stuff from pro-war supproters).

I, of course, condemn anyone who would desecrate the memorial, including anti-war protesters and anyone who I may share an opinion with on politics, etc., up above in my very first few lines.

I cannot help but notice that the Republican blogosphere has simply attacked me instead of condemning the men and women who claim to be part if the group they are backing and pushing on others. I guess violence at the wall is ok with them, as ling as it's against "libruls".

Sad. Well, that's it for me and the pissing match. I am not going to get into some battle to defend which group is worse, the pro-war groups the Republican bloggers are defending that are spreading violence and hate, or anti-war groups I have nothing to do with. I simply wish that people would be responsible and tell the truth about the groups they are pushing and representing. If BOTH groups are violent, have some balls and condemn them both, like I did. Don't put up post after post about one group doing something without addressing the PLANNED retaliation that is out in the open and public knowledge. Republicans should not defend hate groups, even if they ARE pro-war.