Code Pink's "Warning."

I was reading about Code Pink's "warning flyer" that they were promoting over at Raven's place and at Michelle Malkin's. I'm not quite sure what everyone is so up in arms about.

After all, the document (aptly named "WarToyFlyer.pdf") looks pretty good to me. Of course, when I tried to access it, I got some errors about the .pdf not being configured correctly or something. They listed 5 "Great Ideas & Actions" for War Toys, and another section about War Toys.

Tell me if you see anything wrong with their ideas (ALL quotes really are direct quotes from their flyer):

1. Attention Shoppers. "Dress up in camouflage gear...and...sell war toys... [and] remind gift buyers... to... buy violent toys."

That's what their flyer says. Sounds like fun to me! I've got to go buy some new camouflage gear anyway, I might as well remind people to buy some violent toys while I'm doing it. I wonder if I should suggest plain army men or go with something REALLY violent like the burp gun...

2. Operation Stick it to Them. "Place ... labels on war toys in the store... design your own."

Ok. I'm not real creative. I think my stickers will say "Buy me." Is that what they were going for here?

3. Get some customer satisfaction. "Get a bunch of friends to go with you to each buy a war toy... Create ... war toys... Talk directly to store owners and managers and ask them to ... sell war toys... Promote [these] stores ... and give those stores certificates of appreciation to put in their windows."

Now you're talking! Who wants to go with me as a group and buy out the entire store's stock of paint guns?

4. Teach peace through play. "Start ... war toys on the school playground. Ask your child's teacher to talk about ... war toys; suggest a toy exchange for the school."

Neato. Start war toys on the playground? I'm going to go get some remote-control tanks (hopefully a BIG one, around 2 feet tall), and go start it on the playground, driving it around the kids. I'm going to tell them that Code Pink told me I should do it. Won't you join me?

5. Positive Reinforcement. "Talk to your child about ... [war] toys ...; then ask them to help you ... play."

All right! Time to set up the army men in the sandbox and get out the old BB-gun! Come on kids, Code Pink says you can come, too!

Tell me again why people hate Code Pink?

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