FayObs: Iraq War Divides Protesters at Market House

[Hissyspit]

Lots of interview comments in this article from Friday's protest on the bus tour stop in Fayetteville.

http://www.fayettevillenc.com/story.php?Template=news&Story=7170245


Staff photo by David Smith

Myra Kinderknecht, left, protests the Iraq war as Pam Francis shows her support for it Friday at the Market House in downtown Fayetteville.

Iraq war divides protesters at Market House

By Matt Leclercq and Julia Oliver
Staff writers

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More quietly, some called the war protesters names: socialists, communists, traitors. They derided them for coming into town on a bus. They held signs that said: "So you are anti-war. Isn't that precious," and "Al Queda agrees with Cindy!"

One sign nicknamed Sheehan "Baghdad Cindy," reminiscent of how veterans called actress Jane Fonda "Hanoi Jane" because of her anti-war activism.

On the opposite side of the Market House, Julie Cuniglio of Dallas said it's possible to change people's minds. Traveling on other tour stops, her conversations with pro-war people sometimes made them understand that activists like her are unlike Vietnam-era protesters who derided servicemen.

"They're just afraid we don't support the troops," said Cuniglio, whose nephew died in Iraq in 2003. "That's why it's very important that people understand we totally support the troops. We are the troops. They're our families. We don't support the president's policies."

She added, "Everywhere we go, people get it."

[Missy M]

1. I can never understand how protesting a war relates to being.....

a socialist, communist or traitor. Could someone please explain that to me. I am vehemently against this war and I am none of the above.

[yorkiemommie1]

2. they should look at the labels on the clothes on their backs

and check who made those yellow ribbon magnets on their cars.

Most likely made in China, a commie country !

[Journeyman]

3. Even more perplexing. . .

throughout the Cold War it was imperative -- it was claimed -- that the United States build a massive arsenal to protect us against the world's warmongering socialists & communists.

As Inigo Montoya in The Princess Bride was fond of saying, "I don't think that word means what they think it means."

[Missy M]

4. Oh the irony of it all - I think Inigo Montoya is right on!!

[yorkiemommie1]

7. lol, yeah!

it's like saying ' your mama wears army boots! "

[BlueJac]

8. no kidding

Killing has just become common place for neo-cons.....they see no shame in it, they justify their actions with it.....and see no harm in death!

[FVZA_Colonel]

5. I just don't understand

why some people think that people protesting the ideology that led to the war, which has almost universally been proven to be lies, and not protesting the soldiers themselves in any way, shape, or form, would lower the morale of soldiers in the field. Also, I am just sick and fucking tired of people saying that she is trying to get famous on her son's death, as if they knew her son.

[Hissyspit]

9. Many soldiers would be saying the same things the protesters are saying

against the war, if they felt like they were able.

[TheStates]

6. Supporting the troops means protesting the illegal war which got them...

Into the butcher's blender so to speak, and stopping the game.