From: "Rich Gauszka" 


"Mark"  wrote in message
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> "John Cuccia"  wrote in message
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>> On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 20:52:40 -0400, "Mark"
 wrote:
>>
>>>> IIRC, the anti-war protestors of the Vietnam era didn't
show up for a
>>>> single march and then spend the next few years bragging
about how many
>>>> of marched and whining that they weren't listened to.
>>>
>>> >>them
>>>stayed on the mall permanently after the first protest>
>>
>> People protested for years, all over America.  Some of them even blew
>> things up.
>
> Which goes to show you, despite the postulations 'round these parts, that
> people are not really, in any substantial numbers, against our taking out
> the islamo-fascists in the current conflicts. It's probably a function of
> both this being a required war on multiple fronts, and people knowing it
> is
> because of free flowing information, as opposed to those in the 60s eating
> up whatever old Uncle Walter (and his two cohorts on the other two
> networks)
> fed them.
>
>
>

There was a draft back then. People are now semi-divorced from the conflict

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