Will the escalation cause massive protests?

musicismylife78
musicismylife78 Posts: 6,116
edited January 2007 in A Moving Train
Will the escalation in the Iraq War cause massive protests not seen since Vietnam? Will this be the impetus to cause the sort of chaos that occured during the 60's?

Escalations during Vietnam caused activists to rachet up their militancy, and their opposition to the war, will we see similar results in the current war?
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  • LikeAnOcean
    LikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
    double post.
  • LikeAnOcean
    LikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
    No. People are too brainwashed today. They'll go home listin to their iPods, watch their HDTV and then surf for porn on the internet.. life is too good to be an American and take the time out in the cold weather to voice an opinion. What is an opinion anyway? Most people already paid their opinionated dues this year with America Idol..
  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    I have no way confirm this, but I heard on the news that there will be a march in Washington soon.
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Anyone see this, yesterday?

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,1988743,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=1
  • sapperskunk
    sapperskunk Posts: 684
    Cheguevara6 wrote:
    Will the escalation in the Iraq War cause massive protests not seen since Vietnam? Will this be the impetus to cause the sort of chaos that occured during the 60's?

    Escalations during Vietnam caused activists to rachet up their militancy, and their opposition to the war, will we see similar results in the current war?


    NO
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  • chopitdown
    chopitdown Posts: 2,222
    no i don't think we'll see anywhere near the number of protetst as we did during the vietnam war mainly b/c in vietnam there was 1. a draft (which did not sit well with a lot of people) and 2. 47,000 americans killed during that war.
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  • sapperskunk
    sapperskunk Posts: 684
    chopitdown wrote:
    no i don't think we'll see anywhere near the number of protetst as we did during the vietnam war mainly b/c in vietnam there was 1. a draft (which did not sit well with a lot of people) and 2. 47,000 americans killed during that war.


    58,209 for Vietnam. I'm not being a jerk, but that's 11,209 people we're talking about. ;)
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  • chopitdown
    chopitdown Posts: 2,222
    sapperskunk wrote:
    58,209 for Vietnam. I'm not being a jerk, but that's 11,209 people we're talking about. ;)

    yeah, i saw that there was an additional 10K or so that were killed by non-hostiles. Thanks for the correction, jerk ;)
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  • know1
    know1 Posts: 6,801
    Nope.
    The only people we should try to get even with...
    ...are those who've helped us.

    Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.

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