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In Vermont, a Town-Meeting revolt over Iraq war
The Christian Science Monitor ^ | 2/28/05 | Sara B. Miller

Posted on 02/28/2005 2:28:30 PM PST by common-sense-man-1776

To Mr. Scotch, who makes buttons reading "Only Resolution Can Stop War" in his dining room, it's the best approach available. To many others, it is nothing short of antiwar propaganda. "If you call a meeting in Town Square to denounce [President] Bush, that is fine," says John McClaughry, moderator of the Kirby Town Meeting since 1967. "But they are hijacking Town Meeting ... to protest a completely different agenda."

Scotch has received e-mail calling him foxy, guileful, insidious, sly, and devious, among other things. But he maintains that the movement is not easily defined along political lines.

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Let me see, how many "Resolutions" did the "Great and Powerful UN" issue about Iraq? I think Mr. Scotch is tipping the bottle with some UN people making those buttons. My button reads "Peace through Victory!"

As for "...the movement is not easily defined along political lines." "Political lines" in his mind is either liberal (over 50 yrs old) or progressive (49 and under).

1 posted on 02/28/2005 2:28:33 PM PST by common-sense-man-1776
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To: common-sense-man-1776

I want to see them carrying "Stop Jihad Now!" signs.


2 posted on 02/28/2005 2:34:27 PM PST by Paladin2 (Don't Tread on Me; Live Free or Die)
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To: common-sense-man-1776

Ethan Allen weeps.


3 posted on 02/28/2005 2:34:57 PM PST by Argus (My tagline wishes it was as good as your tagline)
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To: common-sense-man-1776
A bunch of leftist coots sit on their fat maple-syryp-sticky asses and refuse to see the move to liberty ACROSS THE WHOLE PLANET which our soldiers have helped make happen. They need to be HEARD because they're liberals, damnit, who cares that Saddam isn't stacking up bodies like cordwood? They are cranky Vermont libs and it's time THEY were listened to!!!!

Go play with the cows on Ben & Jerry's land, old fools.

4 posted on 02/28/2005 2:37:32 PM PST by Darkwolf377 (Condi Rice: Yeaaahhh, baybee! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1350654/posts)
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"Go play with the cows on Ben & Jerry's land, old fools."
oh i think he does moer than PLAY with them - in fact what he does with animals is downright illegal i am sure


5 posted on 02/28/2005 2:40:31 PM PST by DM1
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To: common-sense-man-1776
But he maintains that the movement is not easily defined along political lines.

I'd say it's defined neatly by right-thinking Americans on the one hand and loony left A.N.S.W.E.R. peaceniks on the other.

6 posted on 02/28/2005 2:41:13 PM PST by okie01 (A slavering moron and proud member of the lynch mob, cleaning the Augean stables of MSM since 1998.)
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To: common-sense-man-1776

Bush won, Bush WON, BUSH WON!!!


7 posted on 02/28/2005 2:42:17 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: common-sense-man-1776
My button reads "Peace through Victory!"


8 posted on 02/28/2005 2:43:31 PM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: Lancey Howard

I too am against the war. The terrorists should surrender immediately.




Thanks Ann.


9 posted on 02/28/2005 2:44:11 PM PST by donmeaker (Burn the UN flag publicly.)
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To: DM1

Not in Vermont it ain't. ;)


10 posted on 02/28/2005 2:47:08 PM PST by Darkwolf377 (Condi Rice: Yeaaahhh, baybee! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1350654/posts)
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To: donmeaker

"The terrorists should surrender immediately."

Now there's a novel idea. Put the onus for the continuing deaths exactly where it belongs. On this phony "insurgency".


11 posted on 02/28/2005 2:57:30 PM PST by popdonnelly
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To: common-sense-man-1776
Ms. Racht, who helped shepherd Huntington's petition, says she doesn't want to cause more hardship for families with loved ones in Iraq. "But I feel we have a state National Guard that's in Iraq and shouldn't be there. People who went into the Guard thought they would be doing things like floods. They weren't expecting to go and be part of an army fighting a war."

I think being given guns and taught how to use them might have been a bit of a clue.

12 posted on 02/28/2005 3:26:40 PM PST by Heatseeker ("I sort of like liberals now. They’re kind of cute when they’re shivering and afraid." - Ann Coulter)
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To: DM1
in fact what he does with animals is downright illegal i am sure

No for long.

13 posted on 02/28/2005 3:30:11 PM PST by nosofar
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To: Darkwolf377

ding, ding, ding !


14 posted on 02/28/2005 3:31:05 PM PST by A message (yep)
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Who cares what a bunch of left-wing ding-a-lings in Vermont think? They're as useless and irrelevant to U.S. foreign policy as that proverbial accordion on a duck hunting trip. (thank you SecDef Rumsfeld!)


15 posted on 02/28/2005 4:12:23 PM PST by Mad Mammoth
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To: common-sense-man-1776

Vermont used to be a great place to live...before all those very unusual people from Massachusetts moved there.


16 posted on 02/28/2005 4:15:28 PM PST by Alonzo
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To: Mad Mammoth

yep I agree

and my nickname for Rumsfeld is, "Nails"

cause that is what he is as tough as.....

Go get em Nails


17 posted on 02/28/2005 5:07:50 PM PST by A message (yep)
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