Yeah, but they really really really really really support the troops.
In addition to a boycott of San Francisco, I think the Navy should stop holding Fleet Week in the Bay Area San Francisco all together. That week, millions of dollars are poured into the local economy.
If the SF Board of Supervisors is going to pull a stupid stunt like this, I think the Navy should oblige the City by the Bay in every respect.
**UPDATE**
Let’s take a look at their reasoning:
In turning away the Iowa, supervisors cited opposition to the war in Iraq, the treatment of gay and lesbians in the service and the city’s reputation for embracing the peace movement.
Is this what they mean by “embracing the peace movement?”
**UPDATE**
Diane Feinstein is NOT happy about this decision:
Washington — Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a former mayor of San Francisco, blasted the city’s Board of Supervisors for its 8-3 vote against a resolution supporting a bid to move the historic battleship Iowa to the city as a floating museum.“This isn’t the San Francisco that I’ve known and loved and grew up in and was born in,” Feinstein said Wednesday in Washington.
“I was very surprised,” added the senator, who served as mayor from 1978 to 1989 after eight years as a supervisor.
Referring to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and efforts to defend the country against possible terrorist attacks, she added, “I thought that in view of what’s going on and in view of the loss of lives of our men and women, it was a very petty decision.”
Good for Senator Feinstein. I hope she makes a few phone calls and takes the 8 members of the Board of Supervisors that voted for this nonsense to task. (h/t Michelle Malkin)
