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Quiet disapproval in US marks war's anniversary
Financial Times ^ | March 19, 2006 | Christopher Swann

Posted on 03/19/2006 4:14:54 PM PST by West Coast Conservative

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1 posted on 03/19/2006 4:14:57 PM PST by West Coast Conservative
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Americans may have turned decisively against the war in Iraq in recent months, but their change of heart has been largely expressed quietly to pollsters rather than in loud public protests.

How convenient.
2 posted on 03/19/2006 4:20:40 PM PST by cripplecreek (Never a minigun handy when you need one.)
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To: West Coast Conservative
Americans may have turned decisively against the war in Iraq in recent months...

Not in *my* case.

but their change of heart has been largely expressed quietly to pollsters rather than in loud public protests.

Nobody's asked *me* a damn thing.

3 posted on 03/19/2006 4:22:19 PM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: cripplecreek

Is the Fianacial Times like the British clone of Wall Street Journal? I remember it endorsed John F. Kerry.


4 posted on 03/19/2006 4:22:25 PM PST by NZerFromHK (Leftism is like honey mixed with arsenic: initially it tastes good, but that will end up killing you)
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To: West Coast Conservative
I think the Anti-War movement jumped the shark when Cindy Sheehan embraced Hugo Chavez... among other things.
5 posted on 03/19/2006 4:25:20 PM PST by operation clinton cleanup
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Americans may have turned decisively against the war in Iraq in recent months, but their change of heart has been largely expressed quietly to pollsters rather than in loud public protests.

Heh. He said a mouthful.

When the media is trying to paint a doom/gloom picture of huge throngs of people who "have turned decisively against the war", but are forced to acknowledge that the evidence for this is all in polls and not in reality (let alone active protests, etc.), they almost give the game away.

In short, the polls are leading and the public is coached, regualarly, day after day, by the media's drumbeat on what they are supposed to say.

He urged Americans to brace for “more fighting and sacrifice.” That is not what was being predicted three years ago.

Sure it was. The person who wrote this is ignorant or a liar.

I'm so sick of being lied to by propaganda hacks.

6 posted on 03/19/2006 4:25:56 PM PST by Dr. Frank fan
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Funny how the US House voted 403-3 to KEEP THE TROOPS IN IRAQ until the job is done. Funny how THAT simple fact is never reported by these uber-rotting libnutmedia carcasses.

I no longer buy anything they shell out, media-wise. Every single story they "report" (i.e. make up) is suspect and a lie until proven otherwise.


7 posted on 03/19/2006 4:27:19 PM PST by goresalooza (Nurses Rock!)
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Quiet disapproval in US marks war's anniversary

The only disapproval is coming from old hippies who never grew up,communists that hate the U.S.,disgraceful Congressman that care more about winning their next election than our troops and our future,and the old media that create slanted polls and tout it as news.

This war has been won,the Iraqi military is improving quickly,when they are ready,then our troops will come home,to the thanks,the honor and the respect they all deserve./rant

8 posted on 03/19/2006 4:35:59 PM PST by mdittmar (May God watch over those who serve,and have served, to keep us free.)
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The MSM couldn't gin up Vietnam era-style mass demonstrations but they still relish Bush being on the defensive.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

9 posted on 03/19/2006 4:39:02 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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The Financial Times - another leftist propaganda organ.

The headline should have been "War Protests Bomb", instead of that Orwellian spin.


10 posted on 03/19/2006 4:55:50 PM PST by aquila48
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Article after article after article is coming out tonight talking about how dissappointing the numbers were for these protests.

The media can spin this any way they would like, but all of the protesters the media showed up to report on, never bothered to show up themselves.

The massive anti war protests that the media promised us earlier this week, never happened. I wonder why?


11 posted on 03/19/2006 5:08:38 PM PST by KCRW
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"""Almost 60 per cent of Americans now feel less confident that the war will come to a successful conclusion, with fears mounting that the country will slide into civil war.""


with no help of course from the weak-knee american people....Al Qaeda knows us better than we know ourselves


12 posted on 03/19/2006 5:10:51 PM PST by georgia2006
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"Propaganda hacks"

I just finished talking to a close friend of mine who's a dyed-in-the-wool Dem. The occasion was the death of one his ex-wives and I called to express my sympathy. We were talking about various non-political things when he launched into a diatribe about/against the war in Iraq. I heard all the dishonest arguments that Dems have been spewing about how Hussein was no threat, more Iraqis have died since the war than all the years Hussein was ruler blah blah blah. My friend went from lib talking point to lib talking point.

When I tried to pin him down on all his "facts", he would quickly change topics and he finally announced that we shouldn't talk politics. He had been doing most of the talking, and butted in every time I started a counter argument.

We're still close friends, but all he reads and hears is lib propaganda. He thinks Al Franken is a great politcal analyst. He asked me why I wasn't still a Dem. (I changed parties about ten years ago). I answered because I finally started getting facts about how things actually were and not lib propaganda. We eventually changed topics from politics to personal matters.

13 posted on 03/19/2006 5:18:57 PM PST by driftless ( For life-long happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
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It is, after all, a volunteer armed forces(to be ever so slightly politically correct) and until we run out of cannon(spelled IED) fodder we need those boys over there taking the fight to them.
14 posted on 03/19/2006 5:20:41 PM PST by Phlap (REDNECK@LIBARTS.EDU)
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He urged Americans to brace for “more fighting and sacrifice.” That is not what was being predicted three years ago.

This writer is either stupid or wasn't born three years ago. Pres. Bush told us from the start this would be a long, hard struggle, not some sort of 30-minute sit-com war. Dope.

15 posted on 03/19/2006 5:21:49 PM PST by hsalaw
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Quietly against is just the F.T.'s way of avoiding to state that these Americans have no intention of running away as they realize there's no place to run to where Islamists won't follow.
On FT's home turf Islamists kept bombing while Mullah's keep on preaching about infidels falling for conversions.
F.T. better sooner than later reality just might set in.
16 posted on 03/19/2006 5:27:26 PM PST by hermgem
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This war will not be like the war against Iraq a decade ago, with a decisive liberation of territory and a swift conclusion. It will not look like the air war above Kosovo two years ago, where no ground troops were used and not a single American was lost in combat.

Our response involves far more than instant retaliation and isolated strikes. Americans should not expect one battle, but a lengthy campaign, unlike any other we have ever seen.

-President Bush, September 20, 2001.
17 posted on 03/19/2006 5:27:58 PM PST by West Coast Conservative (Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.)
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Sure it was. The person who wrote this is ignorant or a liar.

You know, the administration was NOT prepared for this kind of resistance.

The longer this goes on, the more damgaed Bush will be.

That was part of the deal and I think everyone understood that.

The American people, for the most part, have shown quite a bit of patience. I think it's up to the administration to state it's case. Are they doing it effectively?

18 posted on 03/19/2006 5:28:48 PM PST by zarf (It's time for a college football playoff system.)
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Americans may have turned decisively against the war in Iraq in recent months,

I'd be decisively against the Germans and French.

They've let the "Coalition of the Willing" make all the sacrifices in removing a brutal dictator who was thumbing his nose at the UN's regulations.

Containment did not work.

19 posted on 03/19/2006 5:45:39 PM PST by syriacus (Would fewer Americans have died in Iraq if the French and Germans had helped depose Saddam?)
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Quiet disapproval in US marks war's anniversary

Shhhh. It is soo quiet that only the liberal media can hear it..Shhhh /sarc

20 posted on 03/19/2006 5:52:10 PM PST by The Lion Roars
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