There's always been an anti-war movement.

[Ron Green]

The question is, When does the general public start to wake up and become disgusted with the killing? I remember that in the later years of the Vietnam war Nixon's insulation from the growing unpopularity of the war was finally broken when a member of the Ray Coniff Singers (probably the only remaining musical group "safe" enough for a private White House performance) suddenly held up a "Stop the War" sign as Tricky's wide grin froze into a grimace.

I'm wondering if Cindy Sheehan's campout at Bush's fake ranch is such a moment of shattered insulation. Much now depends upon the press corps; reporters 35 years ago were still operating in a competitive story-gathering environment, and there was something in it for them to find the truth. I'm not so sure about now.

[evilqueen]

1. Remove the insulation.

There's always been an anti-war movement.

Ask the mainstream media why they didn't cover the largest anti-war protests in the history of the world and instead chose to support the drumbeats leading up to war. They supported killing and murder.

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. If it bleeds it leads.. and makes us SO much money! *mwuahahahaha!*

[ScreamingMeemie]

3. Make them look at it...daily...at dinner time....on the news.

I was watching the Peter Jennings special last night on ABC. They came to a part about a show that he had done on the fighting in Bosnia...and he had focused the show on a severely injured little girl of about 3 and parents called up irritated that he had shown this footage during, "The dinner hour...". Jennings' response was that it was not right to sanitize the news.

RIP Peter.

[wtmusic]

4. The term "anti-war" bothers me

Who isn't anti-war? On the other hand, isn't it necessary for countries to defend themselves, which at times involves war?

Calling Cindy and many others "anti-war" isn't accurate (although she's certainly anti-THIS war), and is part of the RW attempt to make them look like kooks sitting in a ditch with pie-in-the-sky, unrealistic dreams.