What is an American Friends Service Commitee?

that's seriously fuked...

How can you ask someone to be the last man to die for a party?

The depravity of the left is breathtaking.

Disgusting

So now they have to hope for more American deaths..otherwise they can't party?

Sick

It's a candlelight vigil kinda thing, not a "goulish", "party" kinda thing.

From the site:
"it is generally good to bring your own candle and matches or a lighter."
"Select an appropriate location, where the event will not create a disturbance."
"dignified, respectful, and safe"

But hey, don't let me get in the way of the typical lgf spin, spin, spin.

They'll hold parties when more Americans die?

*spit*

Ha, no Raleigh, NC location, that or they're keeping it a "secret".

With friends like this...

#1,

A Society of Friends (pacifist Quaker) organization, I think.

Another thing the LLLeft has in common with Islamofascists.

Nobody should be surprised.
The MSM is practically orgasmic. I would wager KKKatie Couric already has a nice pointy hat picked out for the occasion.

Let's not forget who we're dealing with here.

IIRC, before the war even started, Chrissie Hynde of "The Pretenders" was saying she hoped thousands of soldiers were killed so it would teach the US a lesson.

And to think, back in high school, I thought she was cool.

But first they've got to party like it's 1,999...

Thanks for the dumpster-diving hat tip, Charles. I got there by searching Patrick J. Fitzgerald, linked through 'activist' 'anti-Zionist' Justin Raimondo's Antiwar.com. Justin Raimondo: when intelligence and writing skilz spend too much time in the pool hall. A search engine kicked him out near the top of the list.

#7 elvis2k

But hey, don't let me get in the way of the typical lgf spin, spin, spin.

Examples please.

I'd be seriously embarrased if I lived in California. The parties aren't all over the country, they're all over California...seemingly.

Thankfully this bullshit hasn't gotten much traction in Indiana...it would make it hard for me to get around and ruin their little pitty parties.

Still short of a million Mogidishus, but they've gotta celebrate milestones when they get them. Not that they aren't patriots who support our troops, of course.

Elvis, aren't you supposed to be, oh I don't know, bloated and rotting in a casket down south somewhere? If you did secretly survive like the Weekly World News insists, the pills obviously fucked up your brain.

Click on the "more info" under each event. Most have registered moonbat attendees in the single digits, some with 0. One in CA has a whopping 46 attendees, which, as these will be impromptu events, will most likely dwindle. The park designated in my town requires a permit and can be reserved by groups so there's an excellent chance the horde of eight registered will have to party in a parking space or something.

Elvis2k

It wouldn't look good if they didn't at least try to disguise their glee.

Let's party for their demise!

:-)

#14, Ed

Bet she still cashes the royalty checks from Rush Limbaugh using "My City Was Gone" as his radio show theme, though.

Yes the Friends are the Quakers. Give the impression of being all peaceful and nice (I think being a Quaker was legally reason enough to get conscientious objector status during the Vietnam War -- maybe subsequent wars too). But they are now largely infused with old hippies and utter total moonbats. Funny isn't it how one religion (pacifist Quakerism, a faith founded in the USA) will do all it can to support another religion (murderous Islam, a "faith" determined to kill us all). Ah, interfaith relations! Don't you just love them?

We should celebrate for every hundredth terrorist killed. Oh, we can't, coz that wouldn't be respectful.

Happy Halloween, Quaker asshats.

Reducing to numbers the complex American commitment to fighting terrorism and preserving liberty around the world perpetuates the simplistic nature of the left's empty and shallow arguments. We can now add "2000 deaths" to "War is bad", "Bush=Hitler", "No Blood for Oil" and the legion of mindless drivel that spews from the mouths of non-thinkers.

Don't question their patriotism

Is Cindy Sheehan going to be brought back out for this? If so, do you think the MSM will ask her about statement that this is a war for Israel?

Can't have that can we? Then everybody might see that a significant part of the Democrat Party is anti-semitic.

#28 kjo

Momma moonbat won't be able to make it for the 2k celebration,she said she's going to chain herself to the White House fence.

On the day after the 2,000th reported U.S. military death in Iraq, people will gather in communities across the U.S. to say that the country’s pro-peace majority wants Congress to stop the deaths by stopping the dollars that are funding the war

i hope zombie can get some naked protesters at the ucla or usc.
no more of this womens furniture disease crap.

It's the Quakers, basically. To be fair to the Quakers, they've been doing this stuff for more than two hundred years, I believe. They were the original peace activists. They do their street theater in Philadelphia all the time. They had one of their "boots" campaigns (with 1500 pairs of empty boots) right in front of the Philadelphia visitors center on July 4th. It was sort of crappy of Philly to allow that on that day. It does take a certain type of ego to say, "Hundreds of Thousands of visitors are coming into Philly for the 4th to celebrate their heritage. Let's make them feel as guilty about it as possible." But the Quakers' aggressively trying to make the point "War is bad" is an old part of Philly's heritage, too, so what are you going to do?

Watch for the MSM to use words like "tipping point", "A Grim Milestone Has Been Reached", etc. When the 2000th Soldier dies. It's going to be wall-to-wall.

But...Bushchimpy put on his flight suit and declared "major combat operations" over.

/Channeling Chris Matthews, Tim Russert, Katie Couric, David Gregory etc. etc. etc.

#19 Model4

Still short of a million Mogidishus, but they've gotta celebrate milestones when they get them. Not that they aren't patriots who support our troops, of course.

Exactly.

Shall we hold a party for the hundred thousandth rape in Dafur ?...or have we missed it ?

It doesn't look like "parties" are planned by this organization. They appear to be vigils. I wouldn't slam Ghandi for holding a vigil in opposition to war. But I agree that they and the MSM are salavating over the opportunity to reach the 2000 death mark. I noted 3 references in this morning's paper that unnecessarily pointed out "nearly 2000" or "soon to be 2000" deaths. Although those facts are true, this organization still cites false facts regarding Iraqi deaths, etc.

Whether or not these vigils will become parties or typical bash Bush bases is yet to be seen. I would be shocked if it didn't turn into such a party. Just look at Cindy Sheehan.

National Guard recruiting office, NW 4th Av. & 13th St. Also rally at 13th St. & Univesity

GATORS: Are you going to take this lying down? McDonalds and Burrito Brothers must be defended.

When your professors give you extra-credit and time off to protest, counter-protests are the only authentic ways to be a radical. Film your professors at a political event (when they should be teaching). That's groovy, man.

#7 elvis2k

But hey, don't let me get in the way of the typical lgf spin, spin, spin.

Here is the location for Austin TX:

Austin, TX
Cornyn's and Hutchinson's offices
Organizer: Debbie Russell

That is Senators Cornyn and Hutchinson. Can you say a "political event?"

elvis2k, it's not "spin" when you're telling it like it REALLY is. I don't believe for a minute that these people will be all broken up inside over the death of one more baby-killing Nazi stormtrooper.

Tears. Crocodile. Get the picture?

#7 elvis2k

It's a candlelight vigil kinda thing, not a "goulish", "party" kinda thing.

They are organizing events in anticipation of the 2000th U.S. troop death.
No need to spin that.

#30 ibmkeyboard

i hope zombie can get some naked protesters at the ucla or usc.

Okay, I've seen those pictures...do you really want to see more? Yetch. You need to get out more ;-)

#7
Like when leftists gather together for their street theater "peace" marches and start yelling profanities and beating the crap out of anyone who dare question their patriotism?

Get the candles and the pot ready - there's going to be a party.

21 Goldsmith-

Not that I disagree with your comment, but keep your elvises straight please.

#7 elvis2k: What would stop this "candlelight vigil kinda thing" from happening today, or yesterday, or last month? In fact, if it's morally important to do, wouldn't it be inexcusable to put it off waiting for that special person who becomes the 2,000th corpse who matters, where the others don't? The truth is that it's political manipulation of the sickest kind, and 2,000 is an nice round impactful number. The servicemen don't matter clearly, it's just that some people are so vile, they think that painting their faces with the blood of heroes will make them somehow tolerable.

Of course these people are lead by the same freaks that cannibalized the corpse of Paul Wellstone on live national TV in the hopes to gain more political power. The only "spin" going on if pretending you see clothes on this hideous emperor, when the painful truth is right before your eyes.

#25,

A little odd that the majority of these gatherings are in California, as the West Coast Quakers are considered more conservative...

Exploiting the Dead by Ralph Peters.

WE'LL soon reach a total of 2,000 dead American troops in Iraq. You won't miss the day it happens. The media will pound it into you. . . .

Breathless anchors and voice-of-God columnists will suggest that 2,000 dead is an exorbitant price to pay in wartime, that reaching such a threshold means we've failed and that it's time to "support our troops and bring them home."

All lies. Certainly, the life of every American service member matters to us. But the left's attempt to exploit dead soldiers and Marines for partisan purposes is worse than grave-robbing: Ghouls only take gold rings and decaying flesh; the left wants to rob our war dead of their sacrifices and their achievements, their honor and their pride.

Read it all.

#24 Dar ul Harb

Bet she still cashes the royalty checks from Rush Limbaugh using "My City Was Gone" as his radio show theme, though.

Not anymore. He bought the rights to the song.

2000 deaths, as tragic as each one is, is instead a VERY low price we've paid so far. Compare them to Vietnam! Where were these people when thousands more were being killed in the rice paddies?

Oh wait a minute, they were busy getting stoned or getting their brains f**ked!

I wonder if al-qaieda will join their "celebration".

#36 ProUSA

It doesn't look like "parties" are planned by this organization. They appear to be vigils.

They are anxiously planning "events" for the 2,000th death of an American soldier in Iraq.

Black tie? Semi-formal? BYOB?

Are all Leftist's just plain stupid?

As many as 100,000 or more...

goes their sidebar claim.

I guess when you can square Saddam intentionally murdering 50 people a day for 20 years to fill his mass graves with cries of "Not one more" you can leave coherent English at the door easily enough.

The contact person sponsoring the Oakland "party," Sharon Duggan, is a Berkeley environmentalist lawyer.

The contact person sponsoring the Alameda "party" (Alameda is next to Oakland), Julie Rufo, used to host "John Kerry meetups," is a member of the Alameda Peace Network, I think of Code Pink, and signed this nice petition for the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, whose tag line is "We aim to change those those policies that both sustain Israel's 38-year occupation of the Palestinian West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem, and deny equal rights for all."

Why does none of this surprise me?

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#30 ibmkeyboard

i hope zombie can get some naked protesters at the ucla or usc.
no more of this womens furniture disease crap.

You don't want to subject yourself (and all us Lizardoids) to more huge-tittied Sherry Glaser, do you?

#44 Model4

The only "spin" going on if pretending you see clothes on this hideous emperor, when the painful truth is right before your eyes.

Touché

My maternal Quaker ancestors must have been different types of folks because they actually fought in the Revolution and the Civil War. They were in Maine.

41 Gretchen 10/22/2005 07:44AM PDT

those women had furniture disease,
you know,
their chest has fell into their drawers.

zombie,
second thought,
forget the nude stuff.
maybe some pictures of first lady hillary rottem clinton.
or bill washing dishes.

What a tragedy, what a quagmire. The Administration sent American boys to die in the thousands because of an INTELLIGENCE FAILURE

IMPEACH PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT NOW!

(For the 2,000 dead Americans of the 1st and 29th Divisions killed in action on June 6th, 1944 because U.S. intelligence FAILED to note that the crack German 352nd division had moved into the hights above Omaha instead of the weak 716th division THOUGHT TO BE THERE!)

Oh, and did I mention the Rangers who stormed the cliffs of Point Du Hoc to find the weapons of mass destruction, namely the 8 in. German shore batteries which would have rained artillery shells on the landing craft on Omaha and Utah, WEREN'T EVEN THERE?

2,000 American dead. What a quagmire D-Day was...

54 Macker

I swear she was the ugliest boobs. Gack!

PIMF
"has"

/crap..need more coffee

damn you 54 macker. lol

i started not to look,
but crap,
you know how some men are.

uggg shitie,
got to go wash out my mouth,
and brain.

#54 Macker

War is Indecent

Irony: intentional. Message: Mamas don't let your babies grow up to be hirsute hippies.

I think moonbats are mad because the casulty rate isn't higher. They want the big numbers so they can shreik into the night.

Watch for the MSM to use words like "tipping point", "A Grim Milestone Has Been Reached", etc. When the 2000th Soldier dies. It's going to be wall-to-wall.

[Link: sfgate.com...]

San Francisco Chronicle. Right On Cue.

#54

ugghhh..my eyes are burning! What is that with the black hat and goatee? Is it a he/she or a she/he?

#53 will_not_back_down

A brief scan of those searches reveals what I expected: they aren't anti-war, they're on the other side.

I cannot figure out how these people have all this free time to organize and attend these events. Most of us are too busy making a living to find time to go spend with a bunch of nuts instead of our families.

The Fakers, long-time Jew-haters.

Non moon bat Quaker’s 2 cents

You must understand The Quaker's faith has caused the arising of a 'truthful hypocrisy'

My favorite example is our belief blazed the trail in the US in legislating and agitating for the repeal of slavery as a moral abomination. Yet when it came to war they could not involve themselves.

Out of a sense of honor many male Quakers joined up to serve, as they believed in the cause and felt the had a responsibility in bringing the nations to this crisis. By some estimates over half of the male Quakers at the time were read out of meeting (think expelled from the faith) for such actions.

The 'politicos' in the faith have drunk the cool-aid. They will not wake up.

#49 jetprop:

I wonder if al-qaieda will join their "celebration".

That's not relevant! Just because al Qaeda and our liberals both want:
-More of our servicemen killed.
-Saddam to still be in power.
-Our troops to abandon Iraq.
-Terrorists to be treated with kid gloves.
-Our soldiers to be made criminals for fighting wars lawfully.
-Terrorists to be excused for atrocities and war crimes.
-Dictators to be protected.
-Jews be demonized and made defenseless against those openly striving for their extinction.

I mean really man, how can you imply that al Qaeda and our liberals are of a like mind and share like goals, just because they desire and believe the exact same things? There's a noble and patriotic reason our libs are like this, and one day we'll hear what it is. It'll make sense then.

#56, rightymouse

My maternal Quaker ancestors must have been different types of folks because they actually fought in the Revolution and the Civil War. They were in Maine.

Thomas Paine was a Quaker, and he wrote
this in support of the Revolution:

They supposed quietude of a good man allures the ruffian; while on the other hand, arms like laws discourage and keep the invader and the plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property. The balance of power is the scale of peace. The same balance would be preserved were all the world destitute of arms, for all would be alike; but since some will not others dare not lay them aside. And while a single nation refuses to lay them down, it is proper that all should keep them up. Horrid mischief would ensue were one half the world deprived of the use of them; for while avarice and ambition have a place in the heart of man, the weak will become a prey to the strong. The history of every age and nation establishes these truths, and facts need but little arguments when they prove themselves...

--from Thoughts On Defensive War

Sheesh!
Look at all the locations in California!

#64 Raider

From your SFC link:

With public opinion polls showing that a majority of Americans favor a partial or total withdrawal from Iraq 32 months after President Bush launched an invasion to oust Saddam Hussein

Amazing the cognitive dissonance exemplified here,the last polls I saw said only 18-28%favored immediate withdrawal.

SFC must only be using a poll of Berzerkely residents.

How do you spell "despicable"? A-F-S-C.

Summed up:
Crocodile tear vigils for the number 2000.
Nothing in this world is worth fighting for - can't we all just get a bong?

By the way – where is mother Sheehan these days? Oh yeah – Sheehan is bashing Hillary. Notice how quickly the MSM droped the curtain and yanked Sheehan off the stage.

Let me see if I understand. The total in todays paper was 1993. They want to protest and have no more die, but they can't have that celebration until 7 more people die? Am I dumb or is there something sick and twisted going on there?

I noticed there's a party planned here in Fredericksburg, VA. I don't think it'll play very well here.

#73 TotallySirius

SFC must only be using a poll of Berzerkely residents.

Or a Daily Kos online poll. Same thing.

I'm sorry, elvis2k, but anybody who believes that a candlelight vigil organized and attended by moonbats is going to stay peaceful for long, you're either deluded or willfully ignorant of the past "peaceful protests" the Left has held at every "milestone."

And it's two years on and the death toll is only now reaching 2000? Pick any two years of the Vietnam "Conflict" and I doubt the numbers will be less than 2000. Hell, 2000 died on the beaches of Normandy in less than 12 hours.

#64 RaiderDan

Washington -- It's a grim milestone that no one [but the media, Left, neo-Nazis, and jihadis] wants to see come about [which is why we here at the SF Chronicle have been preparing for weeks], but the United States is nearing 2,000 military deaths [just wait for all the stuff we have planned when it happens: special sections, nitrous oxide, blow pops] in Iraq.

With public opinion polls showing that a majority of Americans favor a partial or total withdrawal from Iraq [actual polling may vary] 32 months after President Bush launched an invasion to oust Saddam Hussein, experts [we no longer source anything, why bother?] and advocates [who like to party all the time, party all the time...] disagree on whether the looming benchmark [boy oh boy oh boy we can't wait] will further erode public or congressional support [fingers crossed] for the war that the president promises to continue until a successful conclusion [that bastard, we should always leave before the objectives are achieved].

Over at Iraqi Bloggers Central, we've already begun talking about this:

Who Will Celebrate 2000 American Deaths?

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#70 Model4

Good post.

#66 Spiny Norman

Ya, that good old "passive" resistance to war by organizing a National Day of Insurrection. So much for "grass roots" huh?

Richard Nixon was born a Quaker as well.

I have no use for these "Quakers". These Bastards pretend they are morally superior to everyone one, a pretension they can only have in a Free Society that someone else was willing to fight and die for in order for to maintain it's ( and their ) existence.

Can we clear this parties vs. vigils thing up, please?
Of course (maybe?), they aren't dancing but they are celebrating, for political purposes, a nice round number of deaths.
The web site even states "be creative" with your event.
One man's party is another man's creative vigil, I guess.
The moonbats can call it whatever they want.
I call gatherings of morally bankrupt leftists a party.

#85 adilo

If they would show the same amount of compassion on Nov 11th they'd get some respect otherwise they can keep sounding like they are sounding anti-everythingthatIandmanyothersstandfor.

#70 Model4

Pump up the bass and bump that to the top. Well you know what I mean.

A few more apropos Paine excerpts from the same source:

Could the peaceable principle of the Quakers be universally established, arms and the art of war would be wholly extirpated: But we live not in a world of angels. The reign of Satan is not ended; neither are we to expect to be defended by miracles. The pillar of the cloud existed only in the wilderness. In the nonage of the Israelites. It protected them in the retreat from Pharaoh, while they were destitute of the natural means of defence, for they brought no arms from Egypt; but it neither fought their battles nor shielded them from dangers afterwards. I am thus far a Quaker, that I would gladly agree with all the world to lay aside the use of arms, and settle matters by negotiation: but unless the whole will, the matter ends, and I take up my musket and thank heaven he has put it in my power.

Whoever considers the unprincipled enemy we have to to cope with, will not hesitate to declare that nothing but arms or miracles can reduce them to reason and moderation. They have lost sight of the limits of humanity. The portrait of a parent red with the blood of her children is a picture fit only for the galleries of the infernals.
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As the union between spiritual freedom and political liberty seems nearly inseparable, it is our duty to defend both. And defence in the first instance is best. . . . Our enemies have mistaken our peace for cowardice, and supposing us unarmed have begun the attack.

will_not_back_down (#53),

From the bio link about General Secretary: Mary Ellen McNish on the AFSC site:

she is responsible for the administration of programs and projects in more than 22 countries and nine regions in the United States.

More than 22? Wow!

And "nine regions" in the US!

I'm impress.

Before assuming this position, Mary Ellen was...

Yes, I'd like Mary Ellen to "assume the position".

Mary Ellen has over twenty years of progressive responsibility in non-profit management.

I think I know what their trying to say, but even I'm not sure about that one.

She is an experienced public speaker and has particular strengths in strategic planning, fundraising, team building, operations, and organizational development.

Um, I'm guessing they don't know the meaning of the word particular.

Who writes this crap?

#87 Dar ul Harb

Our enemies have mistaken our peace for cowardice

Money quote.

#71 Dar ul Harb

Thanks for bringing up Thomas Paine. Not all Quakers were loony.

One of my Quaker ancestors was killed in the Civil War in Petersburg, Virginia in 1864.

call me sick but, looking at the pictures, I want to see those freeks doing jumping jacks.

(sorry about that disturbing mental image)

Herbert Hoover was a Quaker.

Another thing that gets me is the total lack of perspective. We have freed 2 countries in record time. Afghanistan was a unconquerable country. It was the USSR's quagmire, we have installed a democractic friendly government in record time. We were going to lose hundreds of thousands of men in Iraq, Baghdad would be another Stalingrad. We shut them down in record time. The traveling rape gangs are gone, the plastic shredders are shredding plastic instead of people, the prisons where people where mutilated and had real torture,not humiliation, done are closed. Every target of democractization has been met, we should have a stable West friendly state by this time next year. All this and more has been done at a cost barely higher than the accidental death rate that simply being a soldier incurs. Every death means something, but looking at this through the standard of WW2 or even Vietnam, the cost is embarrassingly light.

The American Friends Service Committee is planning to hold a series of parties all across the country when the 2000th US soldier is killed in Iraq:

They gonna partey like it's 1999.

There will be singing,dancing,sex and drugs.

That's a party!

Aaargggh, Dar ul Harb I missed your post. Sorry to duplicate.

Look at where the Atlanta Georgia "event" is being staged: In front of the CNN building.

#95 TotallySirius

They might as well turn it into a "Screw Abstinence" party!

LLL hell, FL, Fascist left.

I can assure everyone that is not a party I will ever attend, maybe stand on a side street and beat the hell out of the participants.

I think it's time to crack open a Sam Adams:

If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.--Samuel Adams (more than good beer)

The one in Livonia, Mi is on my route home from work. They had the nerve to choose the Veteran's Memorial as the site. I plan to attend in counter protest. Don't want to be rude, but want them to know I don't approve. Any lizards have some ideas for a sign that is not nasty, but makes the point? I'm not too good with succinct, but I'm hoping you folks can help. However, knowing the city of Livonia, I believe as word spreads there may be an issue with them being allowed to hold their "event" at this site. Livonia is a town that doesn't cotton to such crap.

Here is where the ghouls are doing it in San Diego -- The Mt. Soledad [veterans] Memorial at La Jolla.

#102, check out protestwarriors.com the specialize in this sort of thing

opps protestwarrior.com

#101, razorbacker

Yeah, it's a shame ol' Sam has John Kerry's buddy brewing his beer. (last paragraphs of the article).

Brewer Jim Koch, founder of the Boston Beer Co. and star of commercials for his Samuel Adams brand, said he finds the trend ``concerning'' but added that ``I'm not crying in my beer about this.''

But try as he might, he could not resist knocking the competition. ``I've been to these wine tastings,'' Koch said dismissively, ``and they actually spit it out! We beer people actually enjoy drinking. We don't have to force it down.''

He believes that wine makers often harbor a secret passion for beer, something he learned at Colorado's Aspen Food and Wine Festival, where for many years, his was the only beer served. ``There are hundreds of wines there,'' said Koch, ``they're in a tent pouring for hours, and when they shut it down, where do you think those winemakers go? They want a Sam Adams, because it's so hot.

''One of them said to me, `We got a saying in Napa -- It takes a lot of good beer to make good wine.' Hey, when you're on a tractor and it's 90 degrees ... ``

Koch recalled that on election day in November, his friend John Kerry ate lunch at the Union Oyster House in Boston. Kerry, said Koch, washed down his meal with an incredibly manly Sam Adams beer.

Might as well go out and buy some Ben and Jerry's to go with it...

#105/106 bill hedrick

Thank you

#102 cfomahm

How about a poster with a picture of an Iraqi mass grave and the words: WE DIG DICTATORS.

Or a picture of Saddam's mass grave sites with their own "Not One More Death" slogan.

Eight cities in Ohio are holding an "event" with a total of 28 registered attendees. That's an average of 3.5 people at each "event".
Bwahahaha. The one in New Boston, OH is in the K-Mart parking lot. Must be the blue night special.

Each "event" page asks folks to sign this letter to Congress. Notice the hurricane tag line. Doesn't it just blow you away? (okay, bad pun)

To the members of the U.S. Congress:
U.S. military personnel continue to die in Iraq. More than 100,000 Iraqis have died since the U.S. invasion. More than $200 billion has been spent to fund this war.

Please end the war now by using the power given to you under the Constitution: Stop the funding, close all U.S. military bases in Iraq, and bring the troops home. It is time to end the destruction, and rebuild war-torn Iraq — and hurricane-ravaged communities in the U.S.

#102 cfomahm:
"They're our heroes, not your political props!"

What would be nice requires a larger effort. Maybe a big banner, multiple people or a kind of "flip poster." A word balloon that says "US troops out of Iraq NOW!" Beneath it pictures of Zawahiri, Jane Fonda (ideally Vietnam era), Zarqaui, Ted Kennedy, Saddam, Ward Churchill, Osama, Cindy Sheehan, etc.

Oh yeah, even better if you can dress up like a Hamas suicide bomber in full Klanesque regalia. Check with police beforehand though to make sure you're not going to freak them out. Only a Kerry-voter can do stuff like this without worrying about any potential of legal ramifications.

#110 Geepers

I really like that.

Funny how the "touchy, feely, multiculturist, we're all brothers" types only care when it fits their agenda.

Well, not funny "ha ha", funny as in sadly ironic.

The "American Friends/Traitors Service Committee" seems to be holding these "media events" under co-sponsorship with the media. The Forth Estate Fifth Column is more than an Islamist collaborator, it is becoming an active combatant.

#113 Model4

That may be the one. Speaks truth to moonbatism.

Thanks

Now we all know that Al Franken is a raving loon and a lying liar, and actually expect him to say jackass things like:

Franken: "And so basically, what it looks like is going to happen is that Libby and Karl Rove are going to be executed."

But what is truly disappointing is David Letterman's responses to this inanity:

Letterman: “It is treason, yes.”

and

Letterman: "It makes us look bad around the world, I think."

Read the whole disgusting exchange:

On Letterman, Al Franken Jokes About Execution for Treason of Rove, Libby and Bush

#24

Forget Chrissy Hinde. She's having none of that pot of gold.

Rush has universal rights to that song.

How come? He bought the rights from her at almost the beginning of his national run (1988), and she didn't even care. He has said so several times in his show, to those who ask about it.

That's why you seldom hear it on your FM radio (at least in my town). And I don't think that is because he doesn't let radio stations play it. ;)

ciaospirit (#111),

LOL.

And did you notice that the one for Columbus is at the Circleville Pumpkin Festival?

So what happens if they're not enough US soldiers deaths before it ends?

Here in San Diego they plan on desecrating the Mt. Soledad National War Memorial with this 'protest'

San Diego, CA
Mt. Soledad Natural Park
Organizer: George Burdell

They cannot even name the site correctly.

ciaospirit (#112),

Please end the war now by using the power given to you under the Constitution: Stop the funding, close all U.S. military bases in Iraq, and bring the troops home. It is time to end the destruction, and rebuild war-torn Iraq — and hurricane-ravaged communities in the U.S.

Wow, just how freaking stupid are these people?

Don't they know that it's our soldiers that are doing the heavy lifting in the very rebuilding that they're calling for?

Damn I hate stupid people.

#111 ciaospirit

I'm playing hell with my POS computer today and can't get to the site with the city listings. Which ones would be near me in Geauga county?

New computer next week. YES!

#123 rightymouse

The closest places to you are Akron, Canton, or Cleveland. Let me know if you want more info.

Re: Cindy Sheehan and 2,000 deaths:

See this.

I actually posted this yesterday but now it's actually "on topic."

#121 tfbu

Here in San Diego they plan on desecrating the Mt. Soledad National War Memorial with this 'protest'

I wonder if any of those knuckleheads know their friends in the ACLU want the Memorial torn down.

Oct 22 (Reuters) - Two U.S. Marines were killed when their vehicle was attacked with a roadside bomb on Friday in Amiriya near Falluja, west of Baghdad, a U.S. military statement said.

The following are the latest figures for military deaths in the Iraq campaign since the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003, in line with the most recent information from the U.S. military.

U.S.-LED COALITION FORCES:

United States 1,996

Britain 97

Other nations 94

IRAQIS:

MILITARY Between 4,895 and 6,370#

CIVILIANS Between 26,661 and 30,018*

# = Think-tank estimates for military under Saddam killed during the 2003 war. No reliable official figures have been issued since security forces were set up in late 2003.

* = From [Link: www.iraqbodycount.net,...] run by academics and peace activists, based on reports from at least two media sources.

FACTBOX-Military deaths in the Iraq campaign

Iraq Body count has historically been, IMHO, a tad high, maybe 15-25%. But it's a good reference to use since it's fairly leftist so you can't be accused of right wing bias when you use it.

Sorry to bum these freaks out, but my body count in the WOT also includes about 3,000 dead on 9/11/01, 17 from the USS Cole, etc.etc.etc.. I cannot fathom the mindset of someone that can show pleasure concerning this number or how it somehow vindicates their worldview.

So far there are 20 attendees total for 3 "parties". Wow!
Sadly, this will be on the front pages of the local papers and the 6 o'clock news.

I sent them the following:

"AFSC,

I don't see how celebrating the 2000th death of US Service men and women is in line with your espoused mission statement. Rather you should be celebrating what their sacrifices have wrought, both now and in past wars.

If you were to honestly look into your hearts, and avoid the political vitriol of which you are becoming a part, you would see the good that has resulted for the people of many nations and faiths by removing the tyrants boot from their throats. Have you even spoken to a single Iraqi? You claim to love all faiths yet you begrudge a predominantly Christian nation helping the everyday people in a predominantly Muslim nation. What exactly does your supposed "peace" movement do to correct the injustices of despots and tyrants in this world? When you go to meet the maker and are asked "what good deeds have you done?" will you say "I protested the sacrifice of good men and women?".

As it is these celebrations you are planning are simply self serving ghoulishness that is clearly without regard to the memory of these people let alone the feelings of their surviving families. Since you are not celebrating the sacrifice of these service personnel I can only assume that you also do not celebrate their spirit, and are therefore Faith-less shils."

From http://smalltownveteran.typepad.com/posts/2005/10/ any_day_now_.html:

... Update: I'd hoped when I linked to that Penguin Proletariat post that it was all a sick joke. According to LGF and Michelle Malkin there really are people that sick. And they pass themselves off as human.

It would be oddly JUST if the next 10 terror attacks in America killed ONLY people like this.

Clarification, #130
I meant 20 attendees in Colorado.

#128 Billhedrick,

Right wing bias? I'll take that accusation all day long when I am right ot what I am quoting is correct or credible. Amazing that we 'accept' that the left is doing things like inflating the numbers. Personally I think we should not stand for it. I won't and I don't.

As for the 2000 dead parties, I think it's time to come up with some new words for urbandictionary.com to apply to these people. The normal ones like jerk, idiot, lunatic, and asshole just don't do the trick. I mean, it gives jerks, idiots, lunatics and assholes everywhere a bad name to use these venerable labels to describe the cretins that are planning this sort of thing. Oh man, I just insulted the cretins of the world too. Damn.

JFM

i heard that in order to save money, they're printing their signs on the back of the old signs they used for their solidarity demonstration on behalf of the iraqi people. you know the ones - "down with the beheaders/up with the iraqi people" "say no to car bombs/say yes to freedom".

The American Friends Service Committee is planning to hold a series of parties all across the country when the 2000th US soldier is killed in Iraq:

There is also going to be a major sit in protest to the Anti-American Friends Service Commitee. All across the country people whom have self confidence and do not like making a spectacle of themselves will stay home and go about their day as they normally would to show the terrorist and other self absorbed people they back the troops.

As former military, these people are sick. This AFSC group also was against the Afghan War:

[Link: webarchive.afsc.org...]

I have researched the Quakers in the past for a family history and they were not peaceful as one would believe. I offer the following:

George Fox, the Quaker founder, wore a sword for years and had sided explicitly with Cromwell in the Civil War. The redoubtable Quaker pioneer, Margaret Fell, who eventually married George Fox and sometimes is referred as the mother of QuakerismÂ, described Cromwell's army as, the Battle-Axe in the hand of the Lord.

Edward Burrough, another early Quaker, told Cromwell that it was God working through the army, who, overthrew that oppressive power of kings & lords. Research confirms that of the first 33 men, excluding priests & JP's, appointed by George Fox, 20 had military rank or had army connections.

For the Fredericksburg VA 'event' (6 attendees so far), the organizer had this in the write up.

We will be holding a candle light vigil at Hurkamp Park at 6:30pm on the designated day. This vigil is also posted at Moveon.org([Link: political.moveon.org...]

Looks like a politically 'neutral' approach to me...

These people suck. Alot.
I suggest we have a 2000 moonbat death vigil. I suppose the celebrations mourning could start when we reach, oh, say, 1.
I mean why wait?

Absolutely sickening!

#1 Pro-Bush Canuck

What is an American Friends Service Commitee?

The AFSC is a front of the Quakers, or Friends, once the sincere guys who founded Pennsyvania, now a group of hopeless vipers.

Their philosophy, simply stated, is as follows: Anyone threatening war, massacre, extermination, etc., must have a a legitimate grievance, and it is therefore the duty of anyone threatened by an aggressor to immediately surrender and die to prevent war.

Anyone refusing to surrender and die to prevent war is a devil, pure evil incarnate, and all acts are permissible against devils, including orchestrated campaigns of lies.

They will deny it, of course, but their entire history points to it.

The Quakers have been lying about Israel since at least 1970, with the publication of a book, "Search for Peace in the Middle East," which was an outright fraud, exposed in another book "Truth and Peace in the Middle East."

They have been lying about the United States for at least as long. I remember the "Unsell the War" campaign they initiated in 1971, whose primary claim, announced in commercials and ads was that "two-thirds of your tax dollar goes to the Pentagon."

Unsell the War commercials ran on CBS and NBC stations, but when I read from the Statistical Abstract of the United States and the World Almanac to prove the claim utterly wrong, the gentlemen of the electronic press told me that the Quakers wouldn't lie. (In fact, even during the Vietnam War, the department of Heealth, Education, and Welfare received more money than "the Pentagon.")

I called the Quakers in Pasadena, and they told me that the Statistical Abstract of the United States and the World Almanac were both wrong. When I asked them to prove it, they said, "well, you know... we'll get back to you."

It was all very fascinating, and it appears that nothing has changed.

Ill definitely be throwing a "100,000" terrorists dead party, once we hit that number.

Someone let me know when were there.

now can i question their patriotism?

The dems salivate with ever death reported from Iraq. They woul love it if more Americans had died, because they hate Bush more than thel support the troops. The whole "peace is Patriotic" is pure BS.

I received the following email on non-political list I am on (It also annoys me they are bringing politics onto the list)). Just so you can see the local plans:

As of this morning 10/22, there have been 1993 soldiers killed in the Iraq war. Death toll: [Link: icasualties.org...]

Austin has planned the following respectful vigil to commenorate their deaths on the day after the death toll reaches 2000.

Who in XXX would like to attend? They have asked that a bell be rung and we have some silence afterwards. Anybody have a big bell and would like to be part of the program?

XXX

STANDING CALL for Response to 2000th US Soldier Death:

2000 TOO MANY...$200 billion too much (that includes well over $500,000 out of the City of Austin coffers). 100,000+ lives in Iraq and beyond. A war built on lies and still supported by the majority of Congress despite the fact that +/- 60% of Americans want us to GET OUT and think it has made us LESS SECURE.

--Meet THE DAY AFTER at the Lamar St. Pedestrian Bridge, 8-9pm, whatever the day of the week that occurs on, for a candlelight vigil sponsored by Veterans for Peace (details below).

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VIGIL DETAILS:
The vigil is being organized by VFP for the Lamar St. Pedestrian Bridge, 8-9pm:

The Austin Chapter of Veterans For Peace and others invite you to join us on the Lamar Foot Bridge FROM 8-9PM THE EVENING OF THE DAY AFTER THE OFFICIAL U.S.DEATH TOLL REACHES 2,000. We will have 2000 Christmas lights on a 500ft string,a wall with the names of the 2000 US Military Dead, and graphics to recognize the Iraqi Dead. We need you!

There will be songs, speakers and silence.

VFP intends this event to be primarily a vigil to recognize The
Human Costs of War.

They have two parties in Pittsburgh:
Carnegie Museum "Dinosaur" Organizer: David Meieran & Friends Meeting House Organizer: Scilla Wahrhaftig

Important Legal Note: MoveOn.org Political Action is a political organization. Events organized in conjunction with MoveOn.org Political Action are considered partisan under the law. As a result, non-partisan not-for-profit organizations such as schools and libraries should not use staff time or resources to organize events with MoveOn.org Political Action. This could be seen as an in-kind contribution under the law, which could put the organization's tax status in jeopardy

MoveOn.Org, the Heart of the Democratic Party, Celebrates 2000 American Dead, & Warns of Tax Conqsequences

#25

pacifist Quakerism, a faith founded in the USA

Sadly, no - England.

Sometimes it seems like it would be fun to be a member of the Moonbat Action League.