Reply #445: You just made my point.

[txaslftist]

"The very few who protested"

There will always be a "very few" of us who protest. They don't care about a "very few" protestors; what they want to avoid is a repeat of "very many" protestors, like in the Vietnam daze. Bush inadvertently revealed a popular neocon fantasy, that we could have "won" Vietnam if we'd just stuck it out. The idea of Ahmadinejad as the new Hitler will keep a lot of folks on the fence or indoors when we attack Iran.

They aren't striving for unanimity, just manageable dissent. They will sell the next war as "preventing a nucular holocaust" and a lot of people will buy into that.

It has nothing to do with nukes or holocausts or anything like that, and everything to do with hegemony over oil.