Posted on 04/15/2009 1:58:00 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
NEW YORK (AFP) – Grandmother may know best, but for a group of feisty grannies leading US protests against the war in Afghanistan, the problem is that no one's listening.
The Granny Peace Brigade is not just the most colorful anti-war group in the United States today -- it's one of the only ones.
"It's pretty pathetic," said Joan Pleune, 70, one of seven grandmothers aged 65 to 90 who went to court Tuesday in New York to face disorderly conduct charges.
"We've done all these symbolic actions. We get arrested here and there, but it's symbolic," grey-haired Pleune said. "We need masses in the street."
The absence of those masses reflects significant change in the United States, where the occupation of Iraq drew fierce opposition, but the escalating deployment in Afghanistan retains broad support.
Iraq fatally tarnished the presidency of George W. Bush. In contrast, Barack Obama won the White House promising to win in Afghanistan, something he soon backed up by ordering a 50 percent increase in US troop levels to 59,000.
Political science professor Robert Shapiro said Afghanistan, unlike Iraq, is widely seen as a "justifiable war" because the Taliban sheltered Al Qaeda prior to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
"Now the key factor is to give Obama some opportunity to deal with it. But if things don't go well I think you'll start seeing opposition," said Shapiro,..
As media coverage of Afghanistan steps up, that opposition may already be growing, albeit still far from Iraq levels.
A Gallup/USA Today poll last month found that 42 percent of Americans thought sending troops to Afghanistan was a mistake, up from 30 percent earlier this year, a new high.
Criticism of the Iraq operation, while higher, is inching down.
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The peace grannies aren't surrendering.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
Women with the Granny Peace Brigade holding a rally, "Knit-In for Peace" in Washington, DC in 2008 to mark the 5th anniversary of the war in Iraq. The elderly peace activists, who have also been staging protests against the war in Aghanistan, feel that their movement is isolated and deplore the lack of mass rallies. (AFP/File/Tim Sloan)
They dissappear when a democrap is in office.
darn, just darn.
It’s another front for a Hate America group.
Here’s the real group.
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6629
Sooo...A few hippie dippy chicks leftovers the sixties (and boy do they look pretty stale) make jack @sses of themselves protesting a war that even extreme leftist Obama supports and no cares....AFP decides to provide publicity help out their fellow travels and even manages to praise “The One†while slamming Bush.
Am I missing anything?
LOL — Are the Grannies finally figuring out that the majority of “Anti-War” protesters weren’t really against the war/for Peace after all?
Your support has ‘dried up’ because your issue is no longer ‘of use’ to the Communists... It has ‘dried up’ because, well, it was never really there to begin with... You were used, and now you are no longer OF use... If I were them I’d be even MORE worried now with a Communist in the White House... We Conservatives are way more “tolerant” than COMMUNISTS...
Go Grannies Go Grannies Go Grannies Go......to Hades
We`re heading out now a little tea party ,so excited
> Iraq fatally tarnished the presidency of George W. Bush. In contrast, Barack Obama won the White House promising to win in Afghanistan, something he soon backed up by ordering a 50 percent increase in US troop levels to 59,000.
Spotted the lib media bias in this phony phrase. Dubya’s legacy was only tarnished because a Dem did not go to war yet here we are with the lib media backing up their boy..
It’s only a good war when Dems do it...(sarc/)
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