Peace Rallies and How to Destroy Our Credibility

by: Kilgore

Mon Mar 19, 2007 at 12:08:58 PM MST

I have had it with the Vietnam comparisons and I think that we have lost any advantage by comparing the present conflict to our failed police action.  Apparently the pacifists cannot let go of Old School pacifism. I watched students rolling their eyes as they walked by the spectacle. These were not people who think that the Iraq war is the best thing since Nintendo either.

Young people are turned off when they think about their parents for any reason.  Staging a hippy-style rally complete with folk singers, strange speakers, and the bizarre is the exact opposite way to get young people involved in the anti-escalation movement. We need to provide arguments against the current plan, not talk about why Bush is the devil"

I am an ardent pacifist and a weirdo myself, but hippies will never be a majority. Want to stop the war? Tell people why it's a good idea for them to oppose it in accordance with THEIR values. Stuff like this simply shoots us in the feet.

Gov. Butch Otter Says Bush Shouldn't Escalate With the Idaho Guard

by: Matt Singer

Thu Jan 11, 2007 at 18:03:40 PM MST

Gov. Butch Otter has a message for President Bush: Don't send the Idaho National Guard to Iraq again.

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"Idaho families already have made tremendous personal sacrifices for this war. I would certainly make a personal and persuasive argument to the president that our men and women have gone above and beyond," Otter said in a prepared statement.

Right, 'cause the Pentagon is closely observing time limits these days. Or, you know, abandoning them.