Oakland Airport Outrage

[Torog]

Oakland Airport Outrage

Monday , October 01, 2007

By John Gibson


John Edwards always talks about "two Americas," but I don't think he's talking about these two Americas.

On a flight from Phoenix to San Antonio, a flight attendant came back to coach and quietly informed a young soldier returning from Iraq that a woman in first class wanted to switch seats with him. He went to the front â?? to the big seats and the hot lunch â?? and the first class lady came back to his bag-of-peanuts coach seat.

Passengers around her applauded and a few were moved to tears. Acknowledging the applause the first class lady said simply: "I did it because he deserves it."

Cut to the San Francisco Bay Area where soldiers and Marines returning to their home base in Hawaii stopped for a layover, but found they were not welcome in the passenger terminal.

This comes from noted neocon Michael Ledeen in the National Review, who reports receiving an e-mail from a Marine chaplain returning with troops from Iraq. The chaplain said when troops got to Oakland International Airport in Oakland, California â?? not far from San Francisco â?? the welcome mat was not out:

"On September 27, 204 Marines and soldiers who were returning from Iraq were not allowed into the passenger terminal at Oakland International Airport. Instead they had to deplane about 400 yards away from the terminal where the extra baggage trailers were located."

This was not a security measure. After going through super-tight security, checking for contraband, ammunition and explosives in Kuwait, the soldiers and Marines had been allowed in the terminal building in Germany and at JFK in New York. But on the far-left coast they were quarantined from civilians.

This smacks of the bad old days in the Bay Area when returning Vietnam vets were spat upon. Some high-ranking military person should make sure it never happens again. Our Iraq vets should be welcome anywhere and everywhere.

That's My Word.

Torog Reviewed by Torog on 10-02-2007. Oakland Airport Outrage Oakland Airport Outrage Monday , October 01, 2007 By John Gibson John Edwards always talks about "two Americas," but I don't think he's talking about these two Americas. On a flight from Phoenix to San Antonio, a flight attendant came back to coach and quietly informed a young soldier returning from Iraq that a woman in first class wanted to switch seats with him. He went to the front â?? to the big seats and the hot lunch â?? and the first class lady came back to his Rating: 5

[medicinal]

Yes, we should welcome them home. It's not their fault they were thrust into a hell like environment and brainwashed to believe the brown skined man was the enemy. Not their fault the idiot Neo-cons started an un-winnable war with the "Islamofascists". Not their fault they have to wear the uniform of world hate. Inside those uniforms are young men and women that have been to hell and back. Please forgive them and recieve them home. Peace.

[Torog]

Yes, we should welcome them home. It's not their fault they were thrust into a hell like environment and brainwashed to believe the brown skined man was the enemy. Not their fault the idiot Neo-cons started an un-winnable war with the "Islamofascists". Not their fault they have to wear the uniform of world hate. Inside those uniforms are young men and women that have been to hell and back. Please forgive them and recieve them home. Peace.

Howdy medicinal,

Well..ya sorta got the idea..but not really,huh ?

I think that it's pretty sad though,that the only enemies to freedom that you see in the world,are Americans..maybe you should pick up a history book and find out who the real enemies to freedom are and have been and continue to be.

You can believe what you want,but the fact is that America has liberated more people from tryanny,than all other countries combined,in the history of mankind.

Have a good one ...

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

Think of it this way Torog. Medicinal (who happens to mirror my views in this case) agrees with you 100% that the troops deserve the support and respect of the American people. You two may disagree with the war in Iraq, but it is not because he loves terrorists or because you hate brown-skinned people. It's because you both have different beliefs on whether this war is good for the world or the American people. Ya both still support the troops, and that's some common ground I think we can all be friendly to each other for.

Have a good one. :thumbsup:

[Torog]

Howdy Gandalf,

Well I suppose that ya could be right as far as support for the troops goes,but clearly-not the mission.

As you know,I fully support the mission,not just the troops.

This whole mess has been brewing since the '79 hostage crisis in Iran,if not since the inception of Islam.

Those who don't support the mission,are willfully turning a blind eye to the fact that muslim-jihadists are committing some of the most horrific acts of brutality ever witnessed in modern history..because the koran orders all muslims to aid in the dissolving of all non-muslim goverments and the death and subjugation of all non-muslims.

Have a good one ...

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

Howdy Gandalf,

Well I suppose that ya could be right as far as support for the troops goes,but clearly-not the mission.

As you know,I fully support the mission,not just the troops.

This whole mess has been brewing since the '79 hostage crisis in Iran,if not since the inception of Islam.

Those who don't support the mission,are willfully turning a blind eye to the fact that muslim-jihadists are committing some of the most horrific acts of brutality ever witnessed in modern history..because the koran orders all muslims to aid in the dissolving of all non-muslim goverments and the death and subjugation of all non-muslims.

Have a good one ...

I'm not turning a blind eye to anything. I don't support the mission specifically because of jihadists. Iraq was a secularist state that kept sharia law at bay, that's why they were so unpopular with fanatical sharia nations. I've said it again and agian but nobody ever addresses this fact; the Iraqi invasion has increased resentment toward the US, massively increased terrorist recruitment, because otherwise peaceful young men are seeing their friends and family blown up and starting to believe that we are genuinly launching a crusade against Islam.

[Psycho4Bud]

Come on now dude.....friends and family? Of who? Some person brought in from Yemen? I really doubt it. This is just pulling out the assclowns. Iraq and Afghanistan is the battle ground and their taking HUGE losses due to our efforts. These "recruits" would be doing the same in another arena if not in Iraq.

We're also breaking up different organizations like Al-Sadrs....seems that the central control isn't there anymore with this group. I would imagine that is just one of many.

Have a good one!:s4:

[andruejaysin]

Military aircraft do not have doors which match airport terminals, obviously due to a vast left wing conspiracy.

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

Come on now dude.....friends and family? Of who? Some person brought in from Yemen? I really doubt it. :

Do you honestly believe Iraqi people don't have friends and family P4B? The majority of casualities aren't soldiers, insurgents, partisons, or terrorists. The majority of casualities are civilians being bombed because of the precarious security situation brought on by the invasion, and the American bombs that target enemies and kill many civilians in the process. The civilian death toll from this war is at least in the hundreds of thousands. This is common-sense stuff, if somebody charges into your country and kills friends and family (because everybody killed had friends and family), you're not going to feel too friendly towards them.

The media paints the "insurgents" like they're all just insane terrorists. There are plenty of fanatical nutjobs of course, but a lot are just patriots fighting an occupying force after seeing mom, sister, or best buddy killed. Believe it or not, those savages over there think a lot like us and have people in their lives just as important to them.

[geonagual]

Military aircraft do not have doors which match airport terminals, obviously due to a vast left wing conspiracy.

I bet they were flying commercial..otherwise they would of landed on a military base.