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To: Alas Babylon!
Frank Rich, the NYT, the Washington Post, Fox News Sunday, Meet the Press all are wrong. Iraq is not the foreground, important issue it once was. Quite the contrary, with marginal success with the "surge" strategy and listening with one's third ear one can hear the electorate sigh with boredom and disinterest.

Think I am wrong well, then, how about this from the AP? Even the war protesters get it. See below from AP:

"...Police no longer give official estimates but said privately that perhaps 10,000 to 20,000 anti-war demonstrators marched, with a smaller but still sizable number of counterprotesters also out in force. An hour into the three-hour Pentagon rally, with the temperature near freezing, protesters had peeled away to a point where fewer than 1,000 were left.

Some of the Freepers indicate counter protesters were at least 30,000. After a week long hype, only 1000 stayed to listen to Sheehan et al? This is not a mass movement. It is a limited, narrow political interest of the DemocRATS puffed all of proportion by a constant din from the MSM.

I know, I know you are saying this is a serious problem with a 4 going on 5 year war; however, don't forget we fought the Moros in the Philippines from 1899 to 1913 (14 years) and our Native American Brothers from 1620 to 1890 (270 years). There were ups, downs, many quarrels and protests but the long term nature of guerrilla war has always required time.

The DemoCRATS aren't getting anything passed that will limit the President's actions. Barring a last minute disaster, the war will go on and end in a whimper rather than a bang. In the meantime, the DemocRATS are bound to make hay over trivia--Libby, Gonzales and whatever else they can say or do to besmirch our President and his Administration.

202 posted on 03/18/2007 7:56:35 AM PDT by shrinkermd
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To: shrinkermd
This is not a mass movement. It is a limited, narrow political interest of the DemocRATS puffed all of proportion by a constant din from the MSM.

Exactly right and the same point I made on the GOE thread yesterday. They actually had one nut case say from the podium that he saw "thousands" out there. I suggested he put down the bong.

206 posted on 03/18/2007 7:59:24 AM PDT by Bahbah (Regev, Goldwasser & Shalit, we are praying for you.)
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To: shrinkermd

The Surge is Working and Baghdad could be safer than Philly in a few months. That will be death for the Rats.

Pray for W and Our Troops


251 posted on 03/18/2007 8:32:54 AM PDT by bray (Redeploy to Tehran)
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To: shrinkermd
Soooo glad you brought this up shrinkermd!!

A lot of us spent lots of time cheering on those FReepers who attend the DC rally and we had a tremendous effect on the "Answer" crew. They were basically scared to death that anyone would oppose them and even more call them what they were "traitors."

They were shivering at the thought of having to walk in certain areas and called C-Spam all morning long making up untruths about us. This after C-Spam/al jazerra gave them 99% of the air time yesterday and gave us only drippings, left overs.

Truth,justice and The American Way will always emerge and it did yesterday in DC. You just didn't hear much about it from the db/msm,no surprise there.

We need to shear from EC who did her radio show from there yesterday.

It was a great day for freedom, we shut the commie/traitors down.

272 posted on 03/18/2007 8:44:23 AM PDT by rodguy911 (Support The New media, Ticket the Drive-bys, --America-The land of the Free because of the Brave-)
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