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In reply to the discussion: I remember how sick and hurt, bitter and ashamed I felt in 2003 watching the invasion gather [View all]Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)and an odd feeling of nostalgia for the feelings of solidarity among the activist groups and others in those times. My county Dems' chair was a Vet for Peace, my wife & many of her friends stood with Women in Black, we organized unified events among the local faiths. I remember Christians, Jews, Moslems, Hindus, Bah'ai, and pagans getting together for several celebrations of each other. It was a small flowering in a dreadful period in our history.
I think we really need to examine what happened--not only then, but in prototype in GW I, that permitted them to shift public opinion so rapidly. In GW I, in case you don't recall, the general public, still hurting from Vietnam, opposed it by huge numbers (70 or 80%iirc); within a matter of a couple of weeks, they had absolutely turned those numbers around, and the vast majority supported the war.
Somehow they perfected their techniques between the 2 wars. Maybe Grenada was just a field test of some kind.
Those protests you mentioned were hardly even noticed; they already had such tight control of the media that few images of the millions protesting in NYC and elsewhere ever made it to the general public.