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In reply to the discussion: Nobody had the guts to blow the whistle? [View all]snot
(10,504 posts)more people demonstrated against the invasion BEFORE it happened than demonstrated against the Viet Nam war over its entire duration.
We just didn't hear about the demonstrations, or the reasons for doubting the Bush admin.'s story, in the corporate media; because we've allowed 95% of the media to become owned by 6 corps.
The only place I heard mention of the possibility that the aluminum tubes might actually be as well or better suited for non-nuclear purposes was the BBC.
And please forgive if this is off-topic, but the BBC is about to lay off 2,000. And maybe 2 years ago or so, their governing rules were changed to the effect that the trustees to their board would be appointed by the Prime Minister, and programming could be outsourced. (This was after the BBC had gone after Tony Blair re- the Downing St. Memo.)
And I tried to raise the alarm on D.U., and the post sank like a stone.