In case you'd forgotten, February 15, 2023 marks the 20th anniversary of the largest protest marches in history. From Wikipedia:
On 15 February 2003, a coordinated day of protests was held across the world in which people in more than 600 cities expressed opposition to the imminent Iraq War. It was part of a series of protests and political events that had begun in 2002 and continued as the invasion, war, and occupation took place. The day was described by social movement researchers as "the largest protest event in human history".
According to BBC News, between six and ten million people took part in protests in up to sixty countries over the weekend of 15 and 16 February.
The largest protests took place in Europe. The one in Rome involved around three million people, and is listed in the 2004 Guinness Book of World Records as the largest anti-war rally in history. Madrid hosted the second largest rally with more than 1.5 million people protesting the invasion of Iraq; Mainland China was the only major region not to see any protests on that day, but small demonstrations, attended mainly by foreign students, were seen later.
It didn't change a thing.
Bush and Cheney went right ahead and bulldozed the nation into catastrophe. The mainstream media rolled right over. And all of today's Never Trump media darlings were still gung-ho Neocons, with all-access passes to pretty much any teevee, radio and the op-ed platform they pleased, from which they slandering us as American-hating, terrorist loving scum.
It was a time when Republican Party, the Conservative movement and the mainstream media jointely declared open season on Liberals
In case you'd forgotten.
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I'll never forget it. Not a single mention of it on the news. It was happening right outside their windows, and not a word. Cspan had one stationary camera in NYC that throngs of people passed, and not a word.
Not even for a second.
Not even for a second.
“During the Vietnam War... every respectable artist in this country was against the war. It was like a laser beam. We were all aimed in the same direction. The power of this weapon turns out to be that of a custard pie dropped from a stepladder six feet high.”
-- Kurt Vonnegut, "In a Manner That Must Shame God Himself"
Like the same GOPers that scream and threaten violence over the pandemic precautions of wearing a mask, Social distancing, BILIU TO GET THE VACCINE.
Are THE SAME PEOPLE IN Ohio IN THE TOWN WITH THE TOXIC TRAIN DERAILMENT AND CHEMICAL RELEASE. where ORDERED TO EVACUATE THEIR HOMES BY A REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR.
As there newly elected GOP Sen Vance runs around whipping our his finger of blame and points to Obama, Biden, Thomas Jefferson and the woke mob.
I'd forgotten that there was a substantive anti war demonstration that'd been ignored then. As much as Trump had a negative effect on the country in so many ways, I don't think he's had the tectonically negative impact that the GWB admin did. The country really went off the rails with Bush starting with how he got into office and only got worse from there. The media was complicit in a way no one had seen before and by the end of Bush and his cronies' id rampage no one was held accountable. That was really the end of America's dominance. It just took 6 years longer before Trump made it obvious to everyone.
I was living in Oakland. I remember. We took BART to the big protest in San Francisco at the Civic Center, which wasn't that much bigger than the one at Frank Ogawa Plaza in Oakland.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
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