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Thread #55822   Message #870027
Posted By: GUEST
19-Jan-03 - 02:44 PM
Thread Name: BS: Over 10,000 March For Peace in Toronto!
Subject: RE: BS: Over 10,000 March For Peace in Toronto!
The anti-war movement is light years ahead of of the politicians, pundits, and media.

So much of the opposition to the war is going unreported, and the spin being controlled by the White House.

A few facts: almost every single one of the minority members of the US House & Senate voted against the war last October. The Senate vote sharply divided Democrats, with 29 voting for the measure and 21 against. All Republicans except Sen. Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island voted for passage.

In the House, 133 members, including 6 Republicans, voted against the war, or roughly 65% of the Democrats went against their own leader, to vote against the war.

This drive to war by the Bush administration is really dividing the country.