WP Acknowledges a Movement: "Peace by Piece"

[Rose Siding]

By David Montgomery
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, September 22, 2005; Page C01

One after another their trails led them here -- from California, New York, Baltimore -- disparate members of the same movement, drawn by some strong instinct that told them: Now is the time. This is the place.

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Critics cannot easily dismiss this incarnation of antiwar enthusiasm as a fringe passion of anarchists, communists and freaks (though an author still tried to make that case last month at a Heritage Foundation forum). Recent polls say a majority of Americans -- as many as 59 percent -- think the war in Iraq is a "mistake" and the troops should be brought home. (Brought home when? That's another question.)

The news is almost too much to handle. Demonstrators walk around saying, We are the majority, trying it on like unfamiliar clothes.....

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Cindy Sheehan, the movement's own Mother Courage, commands the kind of obsessive cable coverage usually lavished on titillating crimes. Her caravan from Crawford, Tex., rolled into Washington yesterday and 17 television cameras documented her first step onto the soil of the nation's capital in her quest to ask President Bush in person: "What is the 'noble cause' for which you sent our country to war?"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/21/AR2005092102122.html

[Earth_First]

1. "We are the majority, trying it on like unfamiliar clothes..."

WaPo: F*CK YOU!

We've always been the majority.

[Rose Siding]

2. Yes, but I understand what he means by that

There has been a significant shift in polls in the last few months.

It's true, the press hasn't been fair about covering the lack of support for war. However, this looks like a step in the right direction. This piece is well done- It's long and thoughtful and casts those who favor peace in a very positive light.