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We talked to our daughter at Oxford last night. She has talked to several students that were for the action in Iraq and several against. Her opinion is those against it do not really know why. They felt the people of Iraq would not want anyone invading their country. Now they see the way the coalition forces are being met with celebration and are puzzled. Naive sums it up best.

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...our daughter...talked to several students that were for the action in Iraq and
several against. Her opinion is those against it do not really know why.....
Now they see the way the coalition forces are being met with celebration and are puzzled.
Naive sums it up best.

Just my personal angle...but "pathetic, warped, myopic education in history"
is surely part of the picture.

The sanitized view of history FORCED onto kids in public schools (and too many
private schools) has warped much of the current generation.
But it's just history repeating itself.
IIRC, the classes at Oxford voted for a referendum that they'd NEVER serve in the military
no matter who was the U.K.'s leader or who the enemy was.
Suppossedly this happened in the mid-late 1930s...and within five years virtually
all of these same guys were in uniform.

What has suprised me about the "peace protestors" this time around is how they're headed
down the same path to violence trod by "The Weathermen" a generation ago.
It's starting slow, but little acts like slashing the tired on a TV van (yesterday in
Los Angeles) and cursing some of the correspondents that were COVERING
THE EVENT while spitting insults about how "the media is ignoring the peace movement"...
all I can hope is that there is violence...these nutburgers will IM-plode.