The Iraq Summer Campaign is sponsoring a Take A Stand Town Hall and Stand Up Vigil in Hampton Roads. The event will be held Tuesday, August 28, at 7pm at the Lynnhaven Colony Congregational Church Community Center in Virginia Beach.
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VIVIAN J. PAIGE | All Politics is Local 
I will be there. Will u? Do you care about our kids getting killed in Iraq for lies that are too numerous to mention.
Shut down your laptops and go.
Hello, everyone my wife is carreer navy currently on the uss truman, she will be headed to iraq startng in nov. 7 mouth tour, the idea she is fighting for lies correct yourself, we have millions of people who are free, think about that free, freedom a word or words of an idea, go protest think your doing something but keep in mind how your protest are seen by are troops, go ahead do the terroiest work for them if the terroiest ever come back yes they will kill you, they love to kill you no matter who you are welcome to the real world.
Perhaps you could regale us with just a few examples, Linda.
I’m tired of my generation dying for a presidents lies. I support the troops fully. But I don’t support them being taken from their families and loved ones just to fight for lies. But comparing protesting to terrorism is absurd. It’s just another scare tactic to keep people silent. Maybe you should take a look at the Bill of Rights, after all the right to assemble ( i.e. protest) is named under it. This event is about supporting the troops and bringing them home. It’s about making our voice heard. It’s time we took a stand against the Bush Administration.
Jack, I want to ask, literally and metaphorically: where are you coming from? English seems not to be your first language based on a few clues from the way you spell words and structure sentences.
I cannot speak for Jack, but when my father had a job at Oceana, many of the Navy wives were Filipino. Navy people pick up spouses from all over the world.
please go protest, no one said you could not do that but i must have it the right button to get that reaction everyone fighting this war made a choice when you sign the contact. as spelling all that if that’s all you got is to attack me, cool made my point clear. no new ideas just cut and run.
C’mon, Jack, you know better than that. No new ideas, just cut and run comes from a play book that I’m surprised you’d even look at. There are plenty of ideas, and only someone refusing to listen to would claim otherwise.
As for how the troops see it, that’s a pretty lame card to play. You’ve got just as broad a spectrum in as out, and I know that (and so do you, I suspect). I spent more than half my life on and around military bases, a number of which were the subject of some pretty intense local protests*, and while there’s a pretty common (but only partially true) thread of “they don’t know what they’re talking about”, the only soldiers I ever saw take it as an attack on who they are were 1) kids who were just finding their way in the world, and 2) some of the less thoughtful folks who tended to see a black and white world.
*The most fun being in Germany when Reagan bombed Libya – those of us who lived off base rode buses in, which got searched at gunpoint daily, for a short while.