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Nightwing Donating Member (489 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-27-05 06:17 AM
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Stop, Children, What's That Sound? (anti-war rally)
There was a clear winner for best slogan at the huge, spirited, good-old-days antiwar demonstration that filled the streets of Washington on Saturday: "Make Levees, Not War."

It's no surprise that George W. Bush wasn't around when the multitudes of protesters -- police said 100,000, organizers claimed 300,000 -- paraded past the White House. After all, this is a president who restricts his town-hall meetings to townspeople who agree with him. He left his poor wife, Laura, to suffer the mocking crowds, who overshadowed the book festival she was hosting on the Mall.

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A counter-demonstration Sunday in support of the war drew a few hundred people. The comparison isn't a fair measure of opinion about the war, but it does say something about which side has passion and momentum.

I know that Iraq isn't exactly Vietnam, but haven't we heard this song before? You know: "There's something happening here, what it is ain't exactly clear''? Does that ring a bell at the White House? Or did everybody in this administration spend the whole Vietnam era listening to Pat Boone or whatever it was they grooved to in the frat houses?

Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/26/AR2005092601472.html
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ET Awful Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-27-05 06:27 AM
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1. Not a fair measure of opinion? Sounds pretty fair to me. n/t
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Freedom_from_Chains Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-27-05 06:44 AM
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2. I know that Iraq isn't exactly Vietnam
And that would be because it doesn't have any jungles?
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Nightwing Donating Member (489 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-27-05 07:02 AM
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3. Exactly
Not sure what planet Mr. Robinson (author of the op-ed) lives on.
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