Senator Webb - Thanks for a job well done!
“In my view, the most noteworthy event that took place in Washington yesterday was Vets for Freedom’s appearance at the Capitol to argue for victory in Iraq.” — John Hinderaker, Powerline News
TONIGHT ON BLOGTALKRADIO, David Bellavia of Vets for Freedom tells us about the group’s Capitol Hill visit including this stop at Sen. Jim Webb’s office.
“Nadia Naviwala is Senator Webb’s legislative aide. She had brought in his military aide, a thirty year Navy vet and a Vietnam veteran.
He told one of our members who had lost most of his hearing to lower his voice. The meeting started off uncomfortably when he (Webb’s military aide) didn’t apologize, even after he was told the Marine was almost completely deaf from his four tours in Anbar province.
He (the military aide) was trying to appeal to our shared “brotherhood” as combat veterans in explaining that although Senator Webb was in favor of ending the mission in Iraq ASAP, he was NOT in bed with the radical left.
He said that these “wackos” come in and the Senator does not support them and “they get under his skin.”
One of the VVF members picked up this letter on his desk. I immediately confronted him (the military aide) saying, “How are you gonna sit here and lie right to our face? You have a giant pink card on your desk from a group that yelled at Walter Reed amputees ‘You got maimed for a lie’….? This is why Senator Webb has no credibility. Tell us you support defeat but don’t lie to our faces.”
The meeting ended shortly after.
We’ll also be having a conversation with Gregory Davis, co-director of the new documentary “ISLAM: What the West Needs to Know”.
We get underway at 9 p.m. ET. THE LIVE CHAT ROOM WILL BE OPEN. Don’t be late. You ready? It’s showtime.
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July 18th, 2007 at 3:32 pm
That’s the spirit, guys. Go to Washington and kick around the only Senator there who knows what it’s like to fight in a War, just because of a pink card. The war’s over, all except the dying. If you had a lick of sense, you’d know Webb’s out there working to reach a solution in Iraq without losing 55,000.
You guys don’t get it. You don’t know what it’s like to have a war turn around a bite you in the ass because of moronic leadership in the Oval Office. But keep begging for more. After you’ve retired, and your sons and daughters are over there dying for oil, then maybe you’ll look at heroes like Jim Webb with a kinder eye.
Well, like the comic says. You can’t fix stupid.
July 24th, 2007 at 2:21 pm
Thanks so much for blogging on Vets For Freeedom’s efforts. They’ve done an awesome job the past few weeks. I’m sorry Nick Stump doesn’t agree. I invite you and your readers to join us at Move America Forward as we launch our national, cross-country “Fight for Victory Tour” this September 3 - 15 ending in DC where we’ll have a rally with a collection of pro-troop groups including Vets for Freedom, Gathering of Eagles, Military Order of the Purple Heart, Free Republic, Protest Warriors and others. It’s a vital time for us to be mobilized and speaking out and it’s for such a just, worthy, noble, and pertinent cause. So let’s kick some butt and stand up to those who wish to force surrender terms upon our troops! http://www.MoveAmericaForward.org