Well, I support free speech and the right of people to assemble and demonstrate peacefully. However, there are a few things that I’d like to point out to all of you protesters.
First, this war isn’t about oil! If you think it is, stop driving your car! You’re like the “vegetarian” that wears leather shoes. You don’t have a moral leg to stand on.
Second, some of you are just hippie want-to-bes and aren’t sure what you believe. You’re just jumping on the band wagon or have a hidden agenda.
Third, what if Sept. 11, 2001, would have happened in Portland, Eugene or Seattle? Do you honestly think you would still be against the war? I think not. Iraq and Saddam Hussein are bent on the destruction of Israel and the west. Are you anti-semitic, or does your loathing of our government reach new heights? By the way, did you vote? The Muslim extremists will stop at nothing to include suicide bombings to kill you (yes, you)! It is an automatic ticket to heaven in their eyes. It doesn’t matter how, to kill an infidel is a rubber stamp to heaven! Ticket punched.
Fourth, President George W. Bush is looking after the safety of the U.S. citizenry. His job is to protect us, get it? Stop arguing about the legitimacy of his presidency. Get over it and get behind him and the defense of our way of life.
Fifth, I am a soldier and have been for 22 years. I was born and raised in Oregon. I was born and raised to protect the environment, like most of my fellow Oregonians. We need to get over our dependency on oil and especially foreign oil. If oil was worth nothing, those people over there wouldn’t have the money to hurt us and just wouldn’t matter anymore. I didn’t say this was about oil. I said they wouldn’t have the money to hurt us anymore.
Sixth, many men and women of all races have died to make this country free and an example of what is right in the world. Isolationism isn’t the answer. We are not safe when our own technology is used against us (airliners full of innocent passengers). I do not question your patriotism; I only question your thought processes that went in to your position.
Finally, soldiers fight for each other. We are sworn by oath to defend the constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic and to obey the orders of the president of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over us according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. That is not an oath that I take lightly. You may call it blind obedience. I call it making sure that you have the right to stand in the street and state your opinion.