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Jacobin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-10-07 05:48 PM
Response to Reply #18
23. Oh yes it did
riots in the streets and on campuses is what ended it.

The thoughtful speeches were meaningless, as they are today. Just so many pretty words.
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  -HEY, HEY, LBJ. HOW MANY KIDS DID YOU...oh wait, this will make us look silly.... Junkdrawer  Sep-10-07 04:06 PM   #0 
  - Very good point.  Just-plain-Kathy   Sep-10-07 04:08 PM   #1 
  - Nooo not silly!  MuseRider   Sep-10-07 04:08 PM   #2 
  - And it might get attention.  redqueen   Sep-10-07 04:09 PM   #3 
     - Gods no we can't.  MuseRider   Sep-10-07 04:13 PM   #5 
  - Difference is...  TomInTib   Sep-10-07 04:12 PM   #4 
  - kids afraid of being DRAFTED so they protested- and that's more acceptable than  bettyellen   Sep-10-07 07:55 PM   #41 
  - well, everyone knows obedient and orderly protest is what wins the day  Solly Mack   Sep-10-07 04:15 PM   #6 
  - k&r  sniffa   Sep-10-07 04:17 PM   #7 
  - Well  H2O Man   Sep-10-07 04:23 PM   #9 
     - That little fact right there might make people rethink their opinion  babylonsister   Sep-10-07 04:48 PM   #14 
        - But Bill knows  H2O Man   Sep-10-07 05:17 PM   #16 
           - Indeed. Mr. Bill, ensconced in the corporate media, is far more reputable than those ...  TahitiNut   Sep-10-07 05:46 PM   #22 
           - The air waves  H2O Man   Sep-10-07 06:33 PM   #32 
           - Bill looks out for us  Mabus   Sep-10-07 06:14 PM   #30 
              - I am convinced  H2O Man   Sep-10-07 06:36 PM   #33 
                 - Cook up some freedom fries  Mabus   Sep-10-07 06:42 PM   #35 
                    - And read  H2O Man   Sep-10-07 06:47 PM   #36 
                       - And we must read them by the fire  Mabus   Sep-10-07 06:53 PM   #37 
                          - The thought  H2O Man   Sep-10-07 06:55 PM   #38 
                             - Obnoxious insects always seem to be attracted to bright lights  Mabus   Sep-10-07 07:23 PM   #39 
  - you know, I chanted that as I marched against the Vietnam War  onenote   Sep-10-07 04:21 PM   #8 
  - They always say thaat the left is more creative. If so, then why haven't the chants changed in 40yrs  slampoet   Sep-10-07 04:27 PM   #10 
  - You're the poet.  gatorboy   Sep-10-07 04:43 PM   #13 
     - Ok. Let me get back to you in 24.  slampoet   Sep-11-07 01:08 AM   #47 
  - dumb hippies!  leftchick   Sep-10-07 04:33 PM   #11 
  - And against a Democrat too....  Junkdrawer   Sep-10-07 04:42 PM   #12 
  - lol! indeed...  leftchick   Sep-10-07 05:13 PM   #15 
  - Well, that's because they're attention whores.  KaptBunnyPants   Sep-10-07 06:03 PM   #27 
  - Andthat is what we are not doing  nadinbrzezinski   Sep-10-07 05:21 PM   #17 
     - and someone is making billions with a b with privatization...  robinlynne   Sep-10-07 05:32 PM   #19 
     - Try $30 trillion with a t in oil profits waiting in Iraq...  Junkdrawer   Sep-10-07 05:36 PM   #20 
     - There will either be a draft or a withdrawl.  KaptBunnyPants   Sep-10-07 06:05 PM   #28 
  - That didn't end the war  sandnsea   Sep-10-07 05:23 PM   #18 
  - It all had a cumulative effect...  Junkdrawer   Sep-10-07 05:39 PM   #21 
  - Oh yes it did  Jacobin   Sep-10-07 05:48 PM   #23 
     - Nope, not until moms and mainstream folks  sandnsea   Sep-10-07 06:08 PM   #29 
        - Theatrics called attention to it  dflprincess   Sep-10-07 07:40 PM   #40 
  - The fact that Iraqi's are standing on our God given oil is unconscionable  Imagevision   Sep-10-07 05:49 PM   #24 
  - one gets the feeling that theres a sizable faction of DU that, their shrill denials to the contrary,  KG   Sep-10-07 05:52 PM   #25 
  - If you can't change minds, at least consul inaction....  Junkdrawer   Sep-10-07 06:03 PM   #26 
  - yes, even with massive recent evidence to the contrary, many still live with the mythic notion  KG   Sep-10-07 06:14 PM   #31 
     - Meaningful change can't be had at the ballot box?  Telly Savalas   Sep-10-07 08:31 PM   #42 
        - Owww! Quit making so much sense! n/t  chill_wind   Sep-11-07 03:34 PM   #50 
  - yup. eom.  libnnc   Sep-10-07 06:42 PM   #34 
  - I think you're mistaking that with annoyance with the Left's impotence  Telly Savalas   Sep-10-07 09:58 PM   #46 
  - They Only Lacked Imagination  Raejeanowl   Sep-10-07 09:30 PM   #43 
  - It's been done: "Levitating the Pentagon: Evolutions in the American Theatre of the Vietnam"  Junkdrawer   Sep-10-07 09:39 PM   #44 
     - Bummer  Raejeanowl   Sep-11-07 07:31 AM   #48 
  - Georgie Porgie likes to lie  Babsbrain   Sep-10-07 09:47 PM   #45 
  - There is not much of an equation  chill_wind   Sep-11-07 03:14 PM   #49 
 

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