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Flying the battle flag of traitors has consequences.
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Did they jump or were they pushed?
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“This was my whole point with this whole exercise: to represent a segment of American veterans that are being buried in history, three of which are buried in Marion County,” he told the Des Moines Register.
Oh, I’m sure that’s all it was, and that’s why you’ll totally support flying the ISIS flag if any Iowans are killed fighting for their cause because they’re veterans too. Would only be right.
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I want more from Branstat than his reference to Union veterans. I want him to acknowledge that the flag represents a fight for slavery. This is NOT enough from the head of the Republicans in Iowa. Iowans should demand more from him.
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I really wish people understood that the Confederate soldiers were not United States Veterans. How would these brain-dead idiots react to people flying Japanese flags “to honor the veterans who fought in World War II”. They’d be furious, but this is the exact same thing.
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Iowa was a member of the C.S.A.? Dumbasses.
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Hey Golays,
Why not fly the Nazi flag? Nazi soldiers are vets too!
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I like how these crackers always talk about their history and their heritage but one part of it that they NEVER like to mention is that they were bunch of traitors who got their asses royally kicked and kicked HARD, partially by the very people they tried to enslave.
Why on Earth should we fly the flag of a bunch of slaveholding bullies and losers? Germany doesn’t fly the swastika. Nigeria doesn’t fly the flag of Biafra. Russia doesn’t fly the flag of the Soviet Union (well, maybe they do in some obscure corners of the country. You never know.) Cambodia doesn’t fly the flag of Democratic Kampuchea. China doesn’t fly the flag of Manchu-kuo. And on and on and on.
But WE fly THIS thing.
How come he was so concerned about three traitors he CALLED Americans when Iowa sent more than 72,000 young men to defend America and close to 14,000 of them didn’t come back?
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“I’m accountable for what happened, I’ll say that up front,” Waldmann-Williams told The Gazette. “It hurts me that I caused so much division. It was essentially my decision to not request him to take it down.”
Then you should resign too.
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Good riddance!!
It is so good to see that their actions have consequences!!
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About 11 percent of the Iowa population served in the Union Army during the Civil War. The state provided 49 regiments of infantry, nine regiments of cavalry and four of artillery. There were few states stronger for the Union anywhere in the North. If any of the thousands of Iowa GAR men had seen the Reb flag flying in a postwar Fourth of July parade, there would have been more than complaints, I can assure you. It would not have advanced a single city block.
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I hate that I’m having to do this but………Confederate soldiers are not considered United States Veterans but they were Americans and thus American Veterans whether any of us like it or not. The Civil War is an American Story, the men and women who participated as soldiers, medical units, spies and all the rest were and are still Americans, no matter which side they supported during the War.
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Gay marriage has consequences.
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It’s amazing to me how many people have forgotten what the Civil war was about and what happened during it. And why the Confed. flag still engenders so much emotion (slavery, treason).
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What is becoming clear is that there are a lot of f***in’ nitwits in rural Iowa and Minnesota who don’t know a damn thing about what the Confederate battle flag really stands for. As much as I hate agreeing with him, Gov. Branstad’s point about dishonoring Iowans lost fighting against that flag (and their Iowan descendants) is legitimate. Same goes for that meathead in Albert Lea, MN who hung the stars and bars off the back of a firetruck last weekend. Minnesota lost 2,584 of its sons in the Civil War fighting against the secessionists.
Is it too much to ask of these rural, midwestern cornheads to invest a moment or two of thought into what the Confederate battle flag really stands for and not fly it during a f***ing 4th of July parade?!
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I disagree valgalky23. They took up arms against the United States and those who survived the war were not Americans again until they swore the oath to never take up arms against the United States again after the Confederates surrendered.
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“I’m accountable for what happened, I’ll say that up front,” Waldmann-Williams told The Gazette. “It hurts me that I caused so much division. It was essentially my decision to not request him to take it down.”
So, why haven’t you resigned?
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“I decided on freedom of speech, thinking of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and all of that, that they were owners of the trailer,”
So, a trailer emblazoned in swastikas and signage saying Jews should burn in Hell would have traveled the parade route unopposed by Party officials? You know, because Freedom of Speech.
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They were also traitors. Flat out, they rebelled against the Constitution, the President and the Government of the United States.
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