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September 18, 2005
Military Families Voice of Victory
Posted by Dave Blount at September 18, 2005 12:56 PM
Had all you can stomach of Cindy Sheehan's Gold Star Families for Peace? Would you prefer a little reminder that most military families actually support our troops? Check out Military Families Voice of Victory. The organization is intended to give a voice to "relatives of our Armed Forces, both United States and Coalition, who are interested in achieving a more accurate representation of the war on terror than is currently published by most of the media."
Cofounder Ray Davis gave an excellent interview with FrontPage Magazine. Here's a highlight:
FrontPage: You keep a close eye on the "peace" groups. An American withdrawal from Iraq, which these groups want, would clearly lead to a bloodbath — as had occurred in Vietnam after the communist victory. What do you think motivates these groups? Why are they so clearly indifferent about the human lives for whom they purport to speak?
Davis: First I think we need to separate the antiwar movement into subgroups. First are the ones who get all their news from their local paper and the evening news. With a little patience and solid facts you can convince these people we are doing the right thing. Second are the people who are normally very patriotic but they are older, lifelong, die hard Democrats. They hate George Bush because he is a Republican and anything he does is wrong. It takes a mountain of effort to change their minds, but it can be done if you can get them to think beyond partisanship. Third are the "peace" groups. There is just no nice way to put it, they hate America and they hate any free society. They are an aggregate of anti-capitalist groups. For them it is not about peace but control. In their mind if they can control the United States they can control the world. The only human life that has any worth to them is their own. You only have to spend a few minutes in a debate with one of these people before you realize they are not peaceful people. They may have a polite peaceful veneer but underneath beats the heart of Joseph Stalin. For our troops their biggest enemy is a collective of terrorist groups. For those of us at home it is a collective of Marxists, communists, fascists, and Maoists masquerading as peace groups.
Read the rest at FrontPageMagazine.com. Thank you Byron for the tip.
