Berkeley: Marines are 'unwelcome intruders'

[Canuck_Buck]

Berkeley, the famously liberal college town in California, has taken aim at Marine recruiters, saying they are "not welcome in our city."

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/02/07/berkeley.protests/index.html

Republican lawmakers in Washington fired back this week, threatening to take back more than $2 million of federal funding to the city as well as money designated for the University of California-Berkeley, the campus that became a haven of protests during the Vietnam War.

Forrest Smith, who described himself as a veteran of U.S. Special Forces, said his son recently returned from a tour in Iraq and his daughter served in Afghanistan.

"My position on this is the Marines are the best thing we have," said Smith, decked out in Army fatigues.

He blasted the City Council for its action. "It's clearly an abuse of power."

[Tuco]

I started a post on this last week, now it seems they have had a change of heart when the chance of Federal money being taken away. I think they had another vote and it was reversed??