Comments on: Iraq Vet Faces Penalty For War Protest

Former Marine Photographed In Uniform At Anti-Iraq War Rally May Lose Honorable Discharge Status

[lars008-2009]

since they lost the Vietnam war.
Posted by gkc99 at 02:56 PM : May 31, 2007

congress can%u2019t win a war%u2026%u2026. But they can sure lose one%u2026.. right skippy%u2026.

viet nam was not a loss by the score board nancy...

Iraq pullout plan a rare wartime rebuke
The passage of the legislation in many ways surpasses congressional efforts to end the Vietnam War, a longer and far deadlier war for U.S. forces. Congress went years before it was able to agree on legislation significantly challenging presidential war policy, holding some 94 roll call votes on the war between 1966 and 1972, according to data provided by the Senate Historian office.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070501/ap_on_go_co/congress_wars

viet nam
In sum, Congress played a very important role in building opposition to an unpopular and failed Cold War intervention. Legislators emerged as major voices of skepticism, criticism, and outright opposition to Vietnam. They checked the hawks in the administration who refused to believe the facts on the ground. Congress was ultimately pivotal to placing pressure on the Nixon administration
http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewWeb&articleId=12438

The last American troops left Vietnam on 29 March 1973.
The following year there were frequent violations of the peace treaty.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/23/newsid_2506000/2506549.stm

[gkc99]

The man's no longer in the military--the brass, no matter how many chicken guts they wear, how long the beak of their watch cap is, has no authority over him any more. This is so typical of the mind control and lies that the military promotes, and has promoted, at least since they lost the Vietnam war.

[randalds]

This is disgusting! He's already been discharged and has the same right to protest as any other American! this is a sickening attempt to quash anti-war speech and the Marine Corp should demote the idiot that came up with this incredibly ignorant idea, because obviously that moron has forgotten what the military is fighting to defend! The White House should also dis-avow this despicable treatment of honorably discharged vets!

[lars008-2009]

Al-Qaida stays the course...

Al-Qaida Plans NuclearAttacks on 7 U.S. Cities
http://w3.newsmax.com/a/dayofislam/?PROMO_CODE=34BE-1

[bareemperor]

Dear Marine Cpl. Adam Kokesh -

Thank you for your tour of duty,
but I didn't like your opinion.

You are fired!

President Bu$h

[gunownerdan]

"Today we need a nation of minute men; citizens who are not only prepared to take up arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as a basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom. The cause of liberty, the cause of American, cannot succeed with any lesser effort."
-- President John F. Kennedy, January 29, 1961