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August 23, 2005

Salt Lake City Vets Hold Firm on Support for Bush and War on Terror

Despite the media's propaganda campaign to undermine public support for the War on Terror, a clear majority of veterans continue to support the President and to keep their heads on straight regarding our country's noble efforts in Iraq, to judge by the reaction of Vets to Bush's speech at the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Salt Lake City yesterday.

"We owe them something," said the President, referring to those who have sacrificed their lives to defend us from terrorism. "We will finish the task that they gave their lives for. We will honor their sacrifice by staying on the offensive against the terrorists and building strong allies in Afghanistan and Iraq that will help us ... fight and win the war on terror."

The audience concurred. VFW officials blamed the current dip in support for the war on the media's relentlessly negative coverage.

"It doesn't sell newspapers, opening schools and hospitals," said John T. Spahr, who served in the Air Force during the Korean War. "I get emails from my friends over there telling me positive things about Iraq. It's not heard over here, and that belittles the effort in Iraq."

Recent polls suggesting that most people would now prefer to deal with terrorism by trying to ignore it until the next 9/11 comes to find them didn't seem to dishearten the vets.

"Take a poll here and it would probably be 80-20 percent" in support of the President and the war, said Vietnam Navy veteran Gary Wellesley.

This must come as a great disappointment to the city's moonbat mayor, Rocky Anderson (link via V the K), who violated the rules of political decency by trying to whip up his own town to protest against the visiting President. As Anderson spluttered in an email sent out last Friday,

There should be a collaboration of health-care-provision advocates, seniors, the (gay, lesbian and bisexual and transsexual) community, anti-Patriot Act advocates and other civil libertarians, anti-war folks, pro-Social Security advocates, environmental advocates, anti-nuclear-testing advocates, and anti-nuclear-waste-shipment-and-storage advocates.

Unfortunately for Anderson, his coalition of kooks — which held a petulant anti-Bush rally about six blocks from the VFW convention — is unlikely to have the leverage to get him reelected.

Mike Parkin, the senior vice commander of the VFW's Atomic Post 4355 in Salt Lake City, appropriately characterized Anderson's behavior as "very unpatriotic" and "despicable." He voted for Anderson, but won't be doing so again, which I would imagine is a very common sentiment in Salt Lake City right now.

Posted by Van Helsing at August 23, 2005 5:55 PM

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Posted by: V the K at August 23, 2005 6:07 PM

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