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Disagree.

We (regular, conservative folk) ignore them. The media reports (most often glowingly) on their little tantrum marches. They continue to hold these "peace marches" and "peace vigils" and we continue to ignore them. The media continues to report on them. Their numbers grow, as their infrastructure refines itself and they focus their message and recruit more grieving family members to be their frontline spokesmen.

And the other regular folks, those without any strong political allegiances, see those news reports; and not seeing any counter viewpoint being reported, will begin to think, "Hmmmm... maybe the war IS a bad thing. Maybe I should send these poor, goodhearted peace folks some money. And maybe I should call my congressman and tell him to get us out of Iraq."

Sow doubt. Sow dissent.

So then we have a repeat of Vietnam. That's my take on it.

Sow doubt. Sow dissent.

So then we have a repeat of Vietnam. That's my take on it.

Ah no. As I pointed out. They have staged thousands of these little hissy fits since Dec 2000. Remind me again, who won the election in Nov 2004?

Look I know Vietnam was a formative period for a certain generation of Americans but it is completely intellectually bankrupt to compare the two.

Start with just the most obvious flaw. 9-11. The Vietnam war did not start with the mass murder of 3000 American Civilians. Most Americans could not understand why we were in Vietnam, they do understand Iraq. In all the hissy fits about Bush's poll numbers, the Dinosaur media missed the absolute vital one. 60% of Americans when asked say Iraq is "the right thing to do" Considering how rarely we get any poll numbers showing such a majority on an issue, THAT number is the significant fact. All you have to do to understand it is look around Freeper land. About 1/3 of Freepers think we are to GENTAL in fighting Terrorism. What the bone heads in the Dinosaur media do not understand is Bush's Iraq number does NOT translate into any significant support for the Democrats cut and run strategy. The usual clowns in the Dinosaur media assume the link but, as usual, that is case of them writing the story they WISH was happening, rather then the one that actually IS happening. I also find it interesting that the "media" is not reporting that fact that 57% of respondents think the American "News" media's coverage is actively undercutting our efforts in the war.