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  • Even land of the GOP joins the cry against Iraq war

    02/24/2003 6:29:11 AM PST · by rface · 39 replies · 232+ views
    Kansas City (Missouri) Star ^ | Mon, Feb. 24, 2003 | MIKE HENDRICKS
    Despite its growing size, the weekly anti-war protest near the Country Club Plaza is dismissed as a gathering of graying hippies, pinko leftists and goofball radicals. Of course, it's not true. The graying hippies, pinko leftists and goofball radicals in the crowd are far outnumbered on Sunday afternoons by regular folks who think President Bush's pre-emptive war strategy is completely whacked. The anti-war movement is not fringy; it's mainstream. But it's hard convincing administration supporters of that when they see peace signs sharing air space with placards questioning the legitimacy of the Bush presidency or claiming "it's all about oil."...
  • Specter of war treads lightly on campuses - Save the children-Bomb Iraq

    11/24/2002 10:07:42 AM PST · by pittsburgh gop guy · 10 replies · 191+ views
    Pitsburgh Post-Gazette ^ | Sunday, November 24, 2002 | Bill Schackner
    Specter of war treads lightly on campuses Student bodies haven't been fully engaged by direct appeals to oppose Iraq attack Sunday, November 24, 2002By Bill Schackner, Post-Gazette Staff Writer Student activists who say their government is about to make an epic mistake gather every Friday around a table on the University of Pittsburgh campus and unfurl a sign with a simple message. "Disagree with a war in Iraq?" asks the poster in the William Pitt Union. "Do something." Pitt senior Lindsay Liprando signs a letter to Presidnet Bush, urging him to reconsider war with Iraq. Andrew Schrock and Caset Currin...