To: GeorgeW23225
I don't think anywhere near 1 million protested.
2 posted on
03/22/2004 3:38:02 PM PST by
Betaille
("Show them no mercy, for none shall be shown to you")
To: GeorgeW23225
Conservative headline:
292 Million Americans Boycott Anti War Protest !!
Just keeping things in the proper perspective !!
And a few took to the streets in COUNTER protest and had a wonderful time standing firm against the loonies.
Look for a Freep event near you during the months ahead and JOIN IN!
3 posted on
03/22/2004 3:41:04 PM PST by
Knute
To: GeorgeW23225
Well, to be fair, that perspective isn't proper at all.
Not attending any of those protests is not a 'boycott' of them, nor is it an endorsement of the war on Iraq. The truth is, there are many motivated and passionate people against the war in Iraq and the way we are running the war on terror.
To be fair, Lorena Bobbit was motivated and passionate, too.
Being motivated and passionate isn't the fasttrack to being right, cogent, or particularly sensible. I think these folks are misguided.
But the people who stayed home had a variety of opinions on the matter - characterizing them as somehow for the war in Iraq or the War on Terror is unfair.
6 posted on
03/22/2004 3:48:05 PM PST by
HitmanLV
(I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.)
To: GeorgeW23225
Enter "Invasion of Iraq" on Google and search news stories:
Results 1 - 10 of about 8,120. Search took 0.20 seconds
Enter "Liberation of Iraq" on Google and search news stories:
Results 1 - 10 of about 295. Search took 0.06 seconds.
Enter "Iraq invasion" on Google and search news stories:
Results 1 - 10 of about 1,650. Search took 0.07 seconds.
Enter "Iraq liberation" on Google and search news stories:
Results 1 - 10 of about 79. Search took 0.04 seconds.
Simply change some news headlines and see how it changes the editorialized connotation:
"Gorbachev Calls Invasion of Iraq 'Big, Big Error'"
becomes...
"Gorbachev Calls Liberation of Iraq 'Big, Big Error'"
"Demonstrators mark 1 year since US invasion of Iraq"
becomes...
"Demonstrators mark 1 year since US liberation of Iraq"
"S. Africans protest US military invasion of Iraq"
becomes...
"S. Africans protest US military liberation of Iraq"
"Muslim organisations protest 'US invasion of Iraq'"
becomes...
"Muslim organisations protest 'US liberation of Iraq'"
"Voices of Dissent Against the Invasion of Iraq"
becomes...
"Voices of Dissent Against the Liberation of Iraq"
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