Mesopotamia. Babylon. The Tigris and Euphrates, by Arundhati Roy

[Whit]

I find this argument quite bizarre. Protesting against the war means wanting for the soldiers to stop fighting, go home and not get killed. It's not quite against them.

     It'd would be devastating to morale. Morale sinks and it will effect the troops abilities. In the end more would die than would otherwise.
     On the subject of protests, it's not like if we have 'x' number of protests the war will end. We're in it and that's not going to change because I carry a sign around saying, "No blood for oil" or the like.
     We've craved the middle east? News to me. I thought we craved the oil underneath it...
     As to making inroads into it, wouldn't it still be easier to level the cities leaving the airports as intact as possible and just building military bases near the refineries and/or airports? That way we wouldn't have nearly as much trouble with those pesky suicide bombers and the like. The population would be mostly dead. I think that this would be a far more appropriate strategy for the US as you propose our intentions to be.
     Go after congress if we can't get to Bush? Um, maybe you don't realize this but the midterm election is done. So the next time we vote on congress we'll be voting on the presidency as well.
     Okay, the meaning of the term, "silent majority" is that while most of the population has a given opinion it goes unrepresented in public opinion forums. It can't be the opinion getting the all the attention, by definition.
     On the subject of supporting factions inside Iraq, that's how Sadam came to power in the first place. He was the supported faction way back when. Two points there: one; yeah, that really works well doesn't it? and two; Sadam knows that drill and pitches people in a plastic shredder (or some equivalent) if he thinks they might be able to get that kind of support.
     On the subject of rigging polls, I still haven't been able to verify those numbers. Also anybody that doesn't know that info hasn't read a newspaper in this country yet. That's why it seems rigged. They don't watch Letterman, the Tonight Show, or the Daily Show either, since it's become common for these shows to reference such info during the monologue. I say this to show how common the knowledge actually is. If we are to assume these polls are legit I think we'd also have to assume the polling audience came from the guest list of the Jerry Springer show.