The Peacemakers never get credit. It has always been this way. We are despised and spoken of in degrading terms. Over the years, we have been jailed on the flimsiest of charges, beaten in the streets and harrased by the FBI and other federal agencies, not to mention local cops, who act more like thugs than peace officers.
John Kerry's antiwar activities over three decades ago, cost him the election two years ago (well, that and Diebold). Nevermind that he was right.
Yes, the crowds in the streets, while several times approaching a half million people, have been tame, in comparison to the 60s, the peace movement has been stronger than I have ever seen it; stronger and smarter.
As Joe Trippi said; "The Revolution will not be televised."
'Neocons' Abandon Iraq War at White House Front Door:
Although rarely credited, the anti-war movement has been a major factor in mobilizing a majority of the American public to oppose the occupation and killing in Iraq.
To many observers, the movement seems feckless and marginal, its rallies an incoherent bazaar of radical sloganeering. Yet according to Gallup surveys, a majority of Americans came to view Iraq as a mistake more rapidly than they came to oppose the Vietnam War more than three decades ago. So how could there be a peace majority without a peace movement?
Foreign Affairs, the journal of the foreign policy establishment, wondered about this riddle in a 2005 essay by John Mueller reporting a precipitous decline in public support for the war even though 'there has not been much' of a peace movement.
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