] Maybe someone in the peace movement should figure out
] that not only Bush could stop this war. So could Saddam
] - by resigning his unelected post and saving his
] people any further sacrifice. Yet I've yet to see
] one anti-war placard allude to Saddam's
] responsibilities in securing the peace.
]
] But talk about quagmires. The peace movement, which
] promises so much in its scope and energy, itself remains
] bogged down in a minimalist program of simply and only
] opposing U.S. military action. That's hardly enough.
] The movement suffers a malady similar to that of the
] Bushies, but in reverse: smart principles but dumb -
] no, make that stupid - operational politics. Pure
] rejectionism, since the outbreak of war makes the peace
] movement as blind and indiscriminate as a WWII-vintage
] iron-cast bomb, though considerably less dangerous and
] infinitely less powerful.
]
] Blocking traffic when 74 percent of the American people
] support the war, or endlessly whining about CNN's
] coverage, or grandstanding as Michael Moore did at the
] Oscars (news - web sites) telling America that a
] president who currently enjoys (for all the sordid
] reasons we know) stratospheric popularity ratings is
] "fictitious," has much more to do with personal
] therapy than with effective politics. Continue on that
] tack and you can pretty much count on another four
] years of Bush, no matter how ugly the war turns.