Anti-war rallies/Peace marchers the new chique thing

[Gargoyle]

It appears that those baby boomer professors and teachers at some of these colleges and high schools have a chance to relive their past antidisestablishment sentiments by teaching a new generation that protesting a war, whether just or not, is the chique thing.

Although protest where abundant in the first Gulf War, it was never at this magnitude, although liberal professors did try to stir up the past. The reason was that a lesson was learned from Vietnam that you cannot win wars by spitting on soldiers when they come home. Did we forget this lesson? Or.....

Is this the new hippie movement of this generation? There are reports that high school teachers are giving extra credit and encourage students to protest the war. Some in this forum and outside this forum criticize Americans that they follow a Government blindly into war. CAN'T we argue the same that students are blindly following liberal professors and teachers who wish to influence the minds of our youth into petitioning and protesting our government...FOR A GRADE?

Some of this kids don't even know where Iraq is on a globe, yet here they are burning flags, shouting anti war and peace slogans with their teachers by their sides.

Some might argue that the peace movement is global. I say that they are global and orchestrasted by anti american socialist for the sole purpose of created more anti american sentiment than for actual peace.

Is it chique? It does seem like the party starts with peace sign nowadays....

 

[radiofreecostarica]

ahem...

I thought you had an article to back this one up instead of the right wing bile spat here...

those baby boomer professors and teachers at some of these colleges and high schools

What about the veterans who are against this war? Are they just "crazy hippies" as well?

 

[kayaman+]

Gargoyle,

Apparently you missed the content of the lesson. What we learned from Nam is that you can't win a war the people of the nation do not support or want.
The soldiers that you mention, that were spit on or worse, were victums of our manipulative government and the situation at that time.

 

[PatPatriot]

Sure just like Garafalo says, its hip.

But this ain't vietnam.In another week we are going to have another country in the coalition...Iraq!

 

[PatPatriot]

Janeane Garofalo: 'It Wasn't Hip' to Protest Clinton's Wars

Comedienne-turned-peace-activist Janeane Garofalo offered a stunning admission on Sunday, explaining that she and her fellow anti-war protesters didn't stage huge demonstrations when President Clinton launched attacks on Iraq, Bosnia, Afghanistan and the Sudan because "it wasn't very hip" to protest the former president.

Asked by "Fox News Sunday's" Tony Snow why peace protesters like herself didn't object to Clinton's wars, Garofalo explained:

"I absolutely did. I did not support Operation Desert Fox. It's just that you didn't know me very well back then. Nobody really was interested in listening to me back then."

Then she added, by way of explaining why the anti-Clinton protests never gelled, "It wasn't very hip."

Garofalo went on to claim that Hollywood actors Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins led protests against Clinton's 1998 Iraq attack, saying that "there was a lot of protest, just as there was against the first Gulf War."

A Lexis-Nexis search for December 1998, the month Clinton bombed the daylights out of Baghdad, failed to turn up a single report that mentioned either Sarandon or Robbins protesting the attacks.

A similar search for the month of February 2003 turned up 124 reports on Sarandon protesting President Bush's Iraq policy.


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Ok girls, you got it "it's hip not to murder innocent civilians.", "it's hip not to bomb babies".

guess Patriot & Dubya aren't hip

 

[grantt]

There are war veterans against this, relatives and familly members of 911 victims, and the majority of Canadians that lost 24 people at 911 against this as well.

 

[Jazz]

I wouldn't doubt that about Canada (though I don't know for sure), but I doubt you can provide any evidence that the majority of U.S. veterans and 911 victims and their friends and family don't support this war.

 

[PatPatriot]

lander and the libs...I have been doing searches and I must be doing something wrong again because I can't find any of your protest against the 5 times Clintoon ordered military action without the UN blessing...as a matter of fact he never even asked the UN...wheres the outrage???