The Occasional Observer

Despite the fact that anti-war protestors love - at least in recent history - couching part of their argument along the lines that it is they who truly respect and admire our troops and that's why they want to bring them home, the fact is that practically none of them actually do admire the troops. True colors were shown at the protest this weekend:

There were a few tense moments, however, including an encounter involving Joshua Sparling, 25, who was on crutches and who said he was a corporal with the 82nd Airborne Division and lost his right leg below the knee in Ramadi, Iraq. Mr. Sparling spoke at a smaller rally held earlier in the day at the United States Navy Memorial, and voiced his support for the administration’s policies in Iraq.

Later, as antiwar protesters passed where he and his group were standing, words were exchanged and one of the antiwar protestors spit at the ground near Mr. Sparling; he spit back.