Posted on 03/21/2006 10:32:51 AM PST by presidio9
For all the supposed mounting public outrage over the continuing U.S. involvement in Iraq, the nationwide protests on the third anniversary of Operation Iraqi Freedom turned out to be more sputter than substance. In New York, barely 1,000 people turned out Saturday to protest the war; another couple of hundred showed up on Sunday.
Frankly, there are longer lines waiting to buy tickets at the half-price booth. Even the Naked Cowboy in Times Square probably draws bigger crowds.
Around the nation, turnout wasn't much better. A few dozen showed in Baltimore, a couple of hundred in the antiwar hotbed city of San Francisco, maybe 1,000 or so in the nation's capital.
Only Chicago and Portland drew sizable crowds - and even there, the turnout was significantly smaller than in past years.
Celebrity "peace mom" Cindy Sheehan boasted to one rally that "support for this war has dwindled dramatically." But it looks more like support for America-bashers like Sheehan & Co. is what's dropping off.
Yes, Americans have concerns over the situation on Iraq. But they know better than to listen to the crowd that would condemn any and all uses of power to defend this country from terrorist attacks.
Or perhaps, as President Bush noted yesterday, Americans are coming to understand that there is much more to what is happening in Iraq than the nightly news' reports of gloom and doom.
Bush yesterday cited the Iraqi city of Tal Afar, whose mayor recently wrote to the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq to offer thanks to the 3rd Cavalry Regiment for liberating his people from the terrorist insurgents. (the national news media have notably overlooked Mayor Najim Abdullah Abid Al-Jibouri's letter.)
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Little wonder that even the usual crowd of America-haters and Bush-bashers don't even bother turning out anymore.
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The naked cowboy, unlike war protesters, has a pair.
Liberal media pollsters...: " beleive our polls, not your lying eyes"
Incidently, I used to work in Times Square, and the Cowboy told me that he supports Bush and the Long War.
As did mine on their NY school trip.
As did the wife when she went with her friends.
If I ever stay in NY I will not go see the NC.
"greasy-haired piranha"
You are being too kind. (actually, I got a chuckle out of that!)
More like the tightie-whitie cowboy.
He could use a bigger guitar...
It ain't the size of the guitar - it's how you use your fingers.
Future Democrat Presidential candidate
Katie Couric NEVER LIES. Everything she says is true.
Seeing as how this is the first time I've even HEARD OF the 'naked cowboy', the condition of the anti-war movement is even sadder than I thought.
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! losers!
Nothing has changed there, terrorists have been killing civilians and policemen with bombs from the beginning, so it can't be that.
The golden dome thing was bombed and there were a few days when it seemed like it might happen but it was averted.
So...did the dome event give media and anti-Bush people hope for a civil war? And then when it didn't happen they're taking everyday events and making them into a civil war? Or am I just missing something?
Shame on me. I've lived in NY for 20 years, yet never saw or heard of him.
(Of coruse, I don't work or live near Times Square.)
Well from what I see.. he supports support down below.
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