Yak Rider :
This really is a phenomenon that deserves more attention. It is widely believed that Republicans were defeated in 2008 because George Bush was unpopular, and that Bush was unpopular because of the Iraq war. So how does it happen that Barack Obama continues our involvement in Iraq at the same level that had been planned by the Bush administration and increases our forces in Afghanistan, with hardly a peep from the formerly-antiwar left?
Cindy Sheehan responded to a column by Byron York in The Washington Examiner about the evaporation of the anti-war movement…
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/For-the-Left_-war-without-Bush-is-not-war-at-all-8119694-53506047.html
I read your column about the “anti-war” movement and I can’t believe I am saying this, but I mostly agree with you.
The “anti-war” “left” was used by the Democratic Party. I like to call it the “anti-Republican War” movement.
While I agree with you about the hypocrisy of such sites as the DailyKos, I have known for a long time that the Democrats are equally responsible with the Republicans. That’s why I left the party in May 2007 and that’s why I ran for Congress against Nancy Pelosi in 2008.
I have my own radio show, “Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox,” and I was out on a four-month book tour promoting the fact that it’s not about Democrats or Republicans, but it’s about the system.
Even if I am surrounded by a thousand, or no one, I am still working for peace.
Sincerely,
Cindy Sheehan
2011……. That’s the date the Bush administration negotiated for a pull out of US forces with the Iraqi government before leaving office.
It seems to be Obama’s date too.
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We’re on schedule to leave Iraq by 2011.
it started during vietnam
vietnam ended in 1975
It wasn’t an anti-war movement, it was an anti-Bush movement. Now that Obama is in office, they don’t care if soldiers die.
No one will ever give you a serious answer. This question has been asked over and over again, but libs will not answer you.
If it’s any consolation, I protested the war in Iraq since 2006, and I still make movement to stop it today. I was kinda left alone though >.>
no integrity … no honor … and now no coverage when it doesn’t serve a political greed
Right now we’re trying to stop you from killing our citizens here at home with your lies about health care reform.
we officially ended Bush’s “war on terror” last week
You’re absolutely right. It doesn’t serve the current administration to have protest about their participation in the war, so the media goes along and shuts up. Interesting, huh?
It shows just how correct Eisenhower was in his warning about the military industrial complex/State sweeping away the power of a people so weakened by decadence that they don’t even recognize the ‘military/secret service defense’ tail wagging the ‘administrative dog’ of whatever colour for their own purposes.
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