Where will the anti-war movement be at this time next year if.....

[kentuck]

there are a thousand more American casualties and there is still an insurgency going on, but even stronger than at present? Will the movement still only be a "left-wing fringe movement"? Or will there be thousands more joined in protest? In a way, the Camp Casey protest was spontaneous. What is happening there is real. Unless the situation in Iraq changes dramatically, it will continue to grow, in my opinion. This is a beginning - not an end.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

1. Doesn't look like a left-wing fringe movement NOW.

I suppose, yeah, more people will be protesting, and using slightly stronger wording than now.

[mmonk]

2. Calling it leftwing

is the way the media and repubs try to marginalize it.

[kentuck]

3. That is what they are calling it.....

and they are calling the shots at present. We can call it whatever we wish, but it is the propaganda machine of the corporate media that will tell the people what you are, real or not.

[T Wolf]

4. It will take a lot more than a "mere" thousand more deaths

for Americans to really begin to complain.

As long as the pain is limited to a small portion of the population, people will not care.

Now - gas over $3.00 a gallon. Everyone (or most) are affected by that. And that is what has more 'Merkins all pissed off. Face it. As a whole, we are a very selfish population.

[Burried News]

5. Good question. We do have to think long range.

How we are going to make true peace the business of government? If we don't we will continue to have wars every ten years.

[Rainscents]

6. Mike Malloy said last night...

We should NOT call it "Anti-Movement". Instead, we should call it, "Peace Movement'! Peace Movement sounds very positive and Anti-Movement sounds negative.

[kentuck]

8. Good point ...

.........

[alkaline9]

7. i think that everyday the peace movement...

...gets stronger. Things like possible indictments for Rove-gate, the possible Islamic Iraqi Constitution, the possible war soon to be in Iran, etc etc will all help this movement. I find it hard to believe that something will not be forcefully changed by this time next year (hopefully impeachment, indictments, etc). Yet the right wing propaganda machine could keep spinning everything and convince enough dumb americans to support this (mis)administration. It would be crippling to go another whole year in the state we are currently in.

[Surya Gayatri]

9. "It would be crippling to go another year..."-- wholly agree

Other really important issues are being buried in the yawning red and blue fault line. Productive discourse and political dialogue seem damn-nigh impossible as things are.