You Want a Piece of Granny?

OK, no matter where you stand on the war issue, you've got to read this! It's funny, and I don't mean that in a condescending/rude way... I personally do not want a piece of Granny. This Granny in particular looks pretty tough->

THE GRANNY PEACE BRIGADE

Grannies holding a knit-in to protest the war in Iraq clashed in a shouting match with pro-war activists in Times Square on Wednesday, the fifth anniversary of the start of the conflict.

About 30 member of the Granny Peace Brigade, some sitting in rocking chairs and wheelchairs, were knitting stump socks for veteran amputees and baby clothes for Iraqi families at the Times Square military recruiting station that was damaged by a small bomb on March 6.

"You want a piece of granny?" Frederick Olbrey, 70, yelled at about half a dozen war supporters gathered across the way as the grandmothers sang "God Bless America."
Olbrey, a 1950s air force veteran, was campaigning with the granny brigade to demand that troops be brought home now.

The brigade consists of a core group of grandmothers who have been protesting against the war at the Time Square center since Oct 2005, when they tried to enlist in the Army to replace the young men and women who were being deployed in Iraq.

"We tried to enlist and they wouldn't let us in. We've had long lives. We don't want our young grandchildren, or all the grandchildren, to have to sacrifice their lives, so we thought lets replace them," said the grandmother of five.

After refusing police requests to move from the center the grannies were arrested, sent to jail for a few hours and charged with disorderly conduct. After a six-day trial they were acquitted.