Tomorrow’s the pick-up day for Joe Repya’s latest sign campaign:
Pick ’em up at Stephano’s in Eagan – the corner of Highway 13 and Cliff Road – starting at noon, and going until 3 or until they run out, whichever comes first.
I say that because they should run out fast – as in, possibly within the first hour or so.
What to do with them? From Colonel Joe Repya’s press release (I’ve added emphasis):
At noon on September 1, the anti-war crowd claims they’ll have upwards of 50,000 marching from the Minnesota Capitol Building to the Excel Energy Center where the Republican National Convention, at the Excel Energy Center in Saint Paul.
We are asking everyone who supports our men and women in uniform defending America in the War on Terror to line the streets from the Excel Center with our signs. It is our way of being “Minnesota Nice” and wishing these protesters a “nice day in Minnesota.” We encourage no discussion or verbal exchange with the demonstrators – only a pleasant “smile!
So show up! So I’ll see you Tomorrow a Noon at Stephano’s!
Leave a comment here and/or at the Colonel’s blog if you plan on showing up.
Iraq is such old news, Mitch. It wasn’t even a serious crisis.
Georgia’s the first serious international crisis since the Cold War and *that’s* where our troops are needed, before Russian control over South Ossetia is solidified!
Screw the timetable, we need to withdraw our troops from Iraq *now*, the Surge worked, our boys are needed to defend South Ossetia!
Lindsey Graham and Joe Lieberman need back-up!
/jc
I get it, Slash! You’re doing a “what if Steven Colbert was a schizophrenic sitting at a bus stop”!
Excellent!
I get it Mitch, you’re doing a..
What if our soldiers actually were able to determine the outcome of the Iraqi civil war schizophrenic rant, flippng from the non-threat of Al Qaeda in Iraq defeated not by the surge, but by a change in tactics from unbridled ugly-American ethnocentric hubris (as epitomized by the neo-con right) to a colleraberative, even law-enforcement-esque approach with local leadership getting to take the lead – yes, that’s OUR troops – supporting, advising, but not all that much, fighting- and it didn’t require any surge (according to officials from the Al Maliki government).
Contrasted against this – you’d rather not remember that the Iraqis want US out troops out in 16-18 months – apparently we’re supposed to ignore the interests of the soveriegn government.
You are howling at the wind, the choice here is the Iraqis, not yours, not some anit-war crowd either – but they’re far closer to right than you are, we don’t help this situation, our troops are neither being prented from winning
Just an aside here, nice of you to blame others for the fact that you had 3.5 years and SCREWED IT UP – if you fail (by your measures), it will still be your fault, no one elses. You ran out of time – if you fail – because of your intractibility. The point being, you don’t get to blame the left, you had the time, it’s on you. You asked for 6 more months in 2004, 2005, 2006, each time you were wrong, each time you failed to correct your meandering, rudderless helmsmanship. Just like Vietnam wasn’t lost because of the press, but because the will of the people changed, you will have ‘lost’ – if it could possibly be defined as that – because you inadequately planned for the occupation, refused to listen when you failing, disbanded the army, didn’t protect weapons depots, had too few troops, didn’t plan to employ the Iraqis, etc.. Once the Iraqis were given the respect and tools to do things themselves, because they are in the end a secular nation, AQI was finished, because the Iraqis made it so. You’ve declared ‘victory’ already over AQI, so it seems incongruent that they need to be ‘left there to be let to win.’ Was the surge successful in winning or not, if not, how much longer? The short answer is, the surge didn’t ‘win’ over AQI, but a change in tactics has – and our presence is no longer required.
But the other point being this, our troops never really (except through incompetent bungling by the CPA) mattered in the Iraqi Civil War, and now definetly no longer matter. The only people who don’t get that, is you (and the other neo-cons). The Iraqis get it, the ‘anti-war’ crowd gets it, most of the rest of the world gets it, but you don’t, clearly.
so penigma (if that is your real name) what do you actually think about the post that Mitch made?
penigma has devolved into a one comment a day troll with no follow-through. He’s kind of like the guy at the bus stop who you have to walk by every day as he stands there, lamenting the loss of his penguin dust.
I get it Mitch, you’re doing a..
What if our soldiers actually were able to determine the outcome of the Iraqi civil war schizophrenic rant
No, I’m doing a “my old friend Slash” schizophrenic rant.
Pay attention.
defeated not by the surge, but by a change in tactics from unbridled ugly-American ethnocentric hubris (as epitomized by the neo-con right) to a colleraberative, even law-enforcement-esque approach with local leadership getting to take the lead – yes, that’s OUR troops – supporting, advising, but not all that much, fighting
Which was an integral part of the surge, inasmuch as it was a return to sound counterinsurgency doctrine.
As to the rest of your post – who cares. It’s not like you’re going to read any of the responses, right?
Peev,
What exactly DO you get by waltzing over here and dropping your insulting but usually unintelligent little bombs?
I mean, on the rare occasions you try to tender facts in discussion, you are usually embarassed – and all the rest of the times, you just toss insults about.
And no, that’s not really the norm here, and knowing your conversational style 20-odd years ago, it totally was yours.
So what’s the motivation, Peev? Getting lonely over at “Penigma?”
Now Mitch, you know you’re just “howling at the wind” by asking peev a straight question. Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
” . . . didn’t plan to employ the Iraqis, etc..”
If they were Mexicans Bush would have had them airlifted here to take the jobs ‘that Americans won’t do’ & then given them citizenship, in which case they would be Americans so they won’t do the jobs they came here to do so you need even more Mexicans . . .
Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
I see it more like “lighting farts in the darkness”.