190 Arrested @ Rally in DC

[DeltAlum]

Originally Posted by DaemonSeid

"We're here to show that it isn't just a bunch of old hippies from the 60s who are against this war."http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070916/...aq_war_protest

Can't even get a good protest these days. Back in the Vietnam era, many hundreds would have been arrested.

Why, I remember...

[exlurker]

And in related news, Alan Greenspan says in his new book,

“I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil,”

according to the Sunday Times (of London).

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle2461214.ece

Doesn't anyone have some of those old "no blood for oil" signs in storage somewhere?

Oh well, styles of protests -- and numbers of protestors -- shift over the decades.

Originally Posted by DeltAlum

Can't even get a good protest these days. Back in the Vietnam era, many hundreds would have been arrested.

Why, I remember...

[DeltAlum]

Mr. Greenspan's book is not kind to The President in many ways.

Time will tell.

[exlurker]

Greenspan apparently is qualifying -- slightly -- the statement in his book about the Iraq war and oil:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20817260/

And in related news, a story from a Dallas newspaper a week or so ago about Hunt Oil and its new agreement with the Kurdish area of Iraq (not with the Iraqi central government):

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcont...1.363542e.html

As well as Krugman's recent opinion piece / column about the Hunt Oil deal:

http://www.mercurynews.com/opinion/ci_6910364

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