why no war protests?? because american idol is on. Also protest marchers are busy going to gay weddings
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Ribuffo says American university students today are far different from students of the 1960s and early '70s. A generation ago they were, for the most part, politically motivated and driven. Today's students, he says, are more materialistic and less concerned with geopolitical issues.
The pathetic “our hippies were better than your hippies” argument, from self-righteous baby-boomer idiots.
We're doing better with less hippies, thank you very much.
It only seems like it's hotly debated because everyone on the Upper East Side is against the war.
During the blackout in eight northeast states last year, a New York Times headline read "A Nation Blacked Out." That should give you a sense of their perspective on the political landscape of the country.
Maybe there's so few poorly attended protests is because most of the country supports the liberation of Iraq, but that explanation would never cross their minds.
Who needs anti-american hippies to protest?
We have United States Senators, United States Congressmen and women, United States elites; Kerry, the network media in NY,DC, and of course Hollywood, saddling up to the Islamic Cults.
Do today's traitors check to Kerry, Moore, Chomsky, Fidel, Bono, Madonna or one of the classic thinkers like Franking. All they know is that McAuliffe and MTV told them to hate Bush.
The answer is very simple...almost too simple, really. There are fewer anti-war protests because there is no military draft. Period. When the draft ended late in December, 1972, organized opposition to the war virtually disappeared. Today's young people only go to war if they volunteer for it. Big difference.
Also, the Gulf of Tonkin doesn't come close to 9/11.
The difference is, of course, the draft. There is no draft on, thus the number of people willing to work for America's defeat will be far less.
Uh, gee not one word about the Towers being attacked or Iraq's ties to Al Qaeda.
Protesting against the war would entail putting oneself out into the open for all to see. DUers and the like can ride their keyboards in the privacy of their Democrat lit caves. The neighbors will never know that they are undermining our homeland security.
I think that there are no protests because for one, this is a voluntary military. Young people aren't seeing thier best friends being yanked to a foreign country with damn good odds they wouldn't be coming back. The casualty rate is also not as high as in that era.
And beyond that, there was no 09/11 before Vietnam so that people couldn't actually SEE the bogeyman.
Plus alot of the protests and hippie movement was about an "in your face" attitude and thumbing thier nose at authority and the shackles of society. It was far less about the actual war, but it was a good excuse to flip off thier parents.
Everybody admits that Saddam was a hoodlum. And no matter how peaceful your inclinations are, you've got to be grateful he's gone
Wanna bet? The new liberal talking point is that Saddam Hussein at least kept the terrorism down in Iraq.
They like Saddam because he was a socialist who idolized Joe Stalin. The French liked him because they had lucrative business dealings with him.
Then again, I wouldn't characterize the leftists as having "peaceful" inclinations. The antiwar movement is an AntiAmericanWar movement, they support the Palestinian war against Israel.
But Ribuffo -- a professor of American history at George Washington University in Washington -- disagrees with Frenzel about the anger felt by those who oppose the U.S. military presence in Iraq. He tells RFE/RL that the anger overIraqThe Bush Family/the 2000 Election is intense, but is being channeled into a more conventional form of protest than demonstrations.
But, like Frenzel, he says these differences over war protests could narrow if the United States does not disengage from Iraq soon, and if the killing escalates.
If they are going to start the clock on the Vietnam War in 1954 then I will start the clock on the Iraq war in 1991. Saddam Hussein repeatedly broke the peace. War could have been avoided if he would have stepped down.
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All of the protestors are pretending to be reporters for the left wing media.
They are too busy trying to electronically lynch GW, and they have no time for street protests.
This is the main reason, and is so important it eclipses every other. When Nixon eliminated the draft, it gutted the anti-war movement. Many of the males had been protesting out of worry over getting drafted, and some others were motivated by horror over draftees dying in a war they didn't agree with. When Viet Nam became a mostly volunteer effort, they no longer had anything to worry about, and the protests virtually disappeared.