Protesters at Fedex Field Today (Peace - 11/5/2006 10:12:20 PM)
Found these on Kos. The protesters were pretending to be Rumsfeld, Cheney, and Bush
Did you know that Reagan himself once quoted one of Jim WebbGÇÖs novels in a speech? It was in the middle of a commencement address to the U.S. Naval Academy on May 22, 1985.From the transcript now in the Reagan library:
One man who sat where you do now and graduated from the Naval Academy in 1968 is another member of our administration -- Assistant Secretary of Defense James Webb, the most decorated member of his class. James' gallantry as a marine officer in Vietnam won him the Navy Cross and other decorations, including two Purple Hearts. James wrote several books about American service men and women. In his book, 'A Sense of Honor,' he describes the life that you have chosen. He wrote:So the Gipper himself was yet another one of those sick perverts reading Jim WebbGÇÖs steamy novels. ThereGÇÖs still time for George Allen to come out with a press release attacking Ronald Reagan for this atrocity GÇô go for it, George!"'Servicemen are always in motion, in the air at more than the speed of sound, underwater at depths whales could only dream of, on the surface of the water cruising at 30 miles an hour through crashing seas with another ship almost touching theirs . . . replenishing their oil supplies. Or they are on the ground, in the dirt, testing and training weapons that may someday kill others but today may deal them that same irony. The smallest margin of error separates a live man from a dead man. And in war, of course, they are the first and usually the only ones to pay. The President and the Congress may suffer bad news stories. The military man suffers the deaths of his friends, early and often.' End quote.
Please check out this 7 minute video about Jim:
This video is definitely worth spending a few minutes of your evening on.