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   From: grmerrick@shaw.ca.remove   
      
   On Wed, 8 Sep 2010 17:51:09 -0700 (PDT), "*Anarcissie*"   
    wrote:   
      
   >On Sep 8, 6:18 pm, "Tom S."  wrote:   
   >>   On 9/8/2010 12:21 PM, *Anarcissie* wrote:> I don't think there's a big   
   mystery here.  The anti-war movement   
   >> > was infiltrated and co-opted by Democratic Party operatives for   
   >> > use against Bush.  Once Obama was elected, that use went   
   >> > away and anti-war became inconvenient for the Democrats,   
   >> > who had every intention of pursuing American imperialism in the   
   >> > Middle East.  So it was dropped, or in some cases, let down   
   >> > slowly.  You still have the hard core anti-war movement, but only   
   >> > one person in a hundred is enlightened enough to be opposed to   
   >> > wars that don't affect him directly.  The correct strategy would   
   >> > seem to be not to try for mass-movement effects, but to make   
   >> > trouble -- small-group tactics.   
   >>   
   >> Ever notice how decidedly selective the pacifists are?   
   >   
   >The hard core aren't.  There aren't very many of   
   >them, however.   
   The largest global demonstration in the world was held opposing the   
   invasion of Iraq.Bush invaded anyway and the world knew there were no   
   WMD .Somehow you think that the only anti-war  people on earth live in   
   the US.The US is only 6% of the worlds population.   
      
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