American Legion turns anti-American

How can an organization that fought for all the freedoms we enjoy today turn around and say that although we have those freedoms, we shouldn't use them, for fear of helping the enemy.

I believe they're missing several points.

[T]he group's national commander called for an end to all “public protests” and “media events” against the war.

Is he God? Or the Dictator of the United States?

The delegates voted to use whatever means necessary to "ensure the united backing of the American people to support our troops and the global war on terrorism."

Well, at least we know they definitely got the memo from the White House with the right talking points. And what exactly would those means be? Is this the Soviet Union, where you couldn't voice your dissent or else risk being sent to Siberia? Are they gonna send us to Alaska?

He explained, "No one respects the right to protest more than one who has fought for it, but we hope that Americans will present their views in correspondence to their elected officials rather than by public media events guaranteed to be picked up and used as tools of encouragement by our enemies."

Correspondence to their elected officials?! Is he kidding me? So if we disagree with the White House policies we should send them a letter? Has he lost his mind? We see how much the White House respects written requests: Representative Conyers sent the President a petition signed by more then 500,000 people asking for an explanation about the Downing Street Minutes' contents. The answer? We're still waiting, thanks for asking though.

"We had hoped that the lessons learned from the Vietnam War would be clear to our fellow citizens. Public protests against the war here at home while our young men and women are in harm's way on the other side of the globe only provide aid and comfort to our enemies."

See, what he misses here is the other lesson we should have learned from Vietnam, that is, Do not attack and invade a foreign country if it didn't attack you first. And don't think that if you do invade, they won't fight you back. With all they got. For years. Bloodily.

He concludes:

Cadmus advised: "Let's not repeat the mistakes of our past. I urge all Americans to rally around our armed forces and remember our fellow Americans who were viciously murdered on Sept. 11, 2001."

Too bad he's too late for not repeating the same mistakes of our past. Where was he when the White House was secretly planning to invade Iraq while still pretending it wasn't even thinking about it?