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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on December 05, 2009, 08:33:03 AM
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7160209
Oh my.
The Die alte Sau, the dysmenopausal Kansas school teacher:
proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Sat Dec-05-09 06:14 AM
NOMINEE FOR TOP PRIMITIVE OF 2009
Original message
Lawmakers get little reaction to Obama's war plan
The switchboards and e-mail inboxes of members of Congress are not seeing much of a surge from President Barack Obama's plan to send more U.S. troops into Afghanistan.
Health care and Wall Street bailouts? Those issues light up the phones and get the digital juices flowing.
But lawmakers from across the political spectrum say their constituents seem to be too war-weary or preoccupied with matters at home to be making their voices heard in large numbers on Obama's troop increase.
The tepid response is a marked difference from three years ago, when President George W. Bush's decision to send more troops into a bogged-down Iraq war roiled the Capitol for months and prompted widespread protests.
more . . . http://www.kansascity.com/437/story/1612080.html
PuraVidaDreamin (1000+ posts) Sat Dec-05-09 07:14 AM
Response to Original message
1. This makes me very sad.
I called my rep and left a scathing message. I've been doing this for years, and won't stop, but it's not working- clearly-
It might be time for peace activists to throw everything we have into anti- recruiting, however with the economy in disaster, and no job hopes for many kids futures that likely won't be very effective either.
I'm convinced more and more that Peace of the Action, is a good plan to demonstrate our discontent with all issues pertaining to perpetual war and the military industrial complex.
http://peaceoftheaction.org /
glowing (1000+ posts) Sat Dec-05-09 07:32 AM
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2. Or maybe this is just what they are telling reporters... People want out and they don't listen to us.
Not much of a reaction on Skins's island, either. Only three primitives showed up at this bonfire.
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I am positive that if everything was the exact same economy/debt/jobs wise and Bush were still president the "anti war" left would be out in droves. It's not the war they detest, it's who is waging it.