No, they don't. bruice... I attended most of the anti-war demonstartions in D.C. in the lead up to the Iraq war... Yeah, there were plenty that were anti-Bush... There were plenty that wer anti-war... I don't remember any that suggested any violence or portrayed Bush as Hitler... Bush as a monkey??? Yeah... But that's good clean fun at a demonstration... Hey, that's what we di in the 60's, too... But the hate was for policies... Not people... I mean, I never wanted any rral harm to come to Bush even though I hated his policies... And I don't think anyone who was in those D.C. demonstrations wanted Bush to be harmed, not the less, killed... Yeah, like I said back then when I was accused of hating Bush: You got the wrong man... I don't (didn't) hate Bush... I don't (didn't) hate Dick Cheney... Or Paul Wolfowitz... Or Richard Pearle... But...

...I hated the Hell outta them invading Iraq...

That's the big difference, bruce, that you probably cannot ever comprehend becasue you weren't on the front lines of the civil war or anti-war movement... Yeah, you perhaps don't understand just what a profound effect that Dr. King had on all of us who were there fighting to stop an immoral war and to confront racism...

The number of Congressmen that were spit on isn't the issue... The issue is that no one from the right has/had the balls to stand up to the spitter and say "Hey, man, that was messed up... Don't do that kinda thing again..."

That is what is at issue here...

Had I been an organizer of a demonstration in the 60s where one service brother or sister was disrespected I would have made it a point to persoanlly apologize to the that person and would have had the spitter removed from the demonstration... And that is the way that everyone I organized with would have handled it...

Ya' see, bruce... We were orgainizing with church groups, and old ladies groups and all kinds of people and we were trying our best to turn tyhe other cheek as Dr. King taught us... I can truthfully say that in almost 10 years of being involved in demonstrating and orgainizing I never once saw a service person disrespected... Never!!!

The Vietnam War wasn't called up by the grunts... It was called up by the usual chicken-hawks, Kennedy and Johnson and later Nixon... 99.999% of the anti-war folks understood this...

Like I said in my last post, the only time I ever encountered folks preaching violence was by folks who I think were FBI plants... Never, ever the anit-war/civil rights folks I knew all over the South...

B~