Against the Iraq war? Who cares?
No one is paying any attention. Not Bush, of course; not Congress; not the corporate media.
There was an antiwar/pro-impeachment rally in Washington, DC yesterday, the seat of government, the place where thousands of media eyes are focused.
It was almost invisible. Thousands of people marched, nearly two hundred were arrested. The print media yawned. I don't know what TV coverage was like, since I never watch TV news anymore, but newspapers paid it little mind.
A spot check of the Sunday front page of nearly 200 newspapers showed no significant interest in the story. There was no mention of it on the front page of most of the papers I checked.
There were a few exceptions: The Stockton, CA Record carried it on the front page; The Atlanta Journal-Constitution had a front-page picture referring to a story inside; and the Louisville Courier-Journal carried a small story on the bottom of page 1.
The rest? zilch.
A paper in Illinois had a front-page lead story on a local soldier killed in Iraq, but not a word about the Washington demonstrations.
There were stories on donuts, property values, etc. And there were lots of stories on football.
But a demonstration in the nation's capital against trillion-dollar war that has killed thousands of Americans, and probably a million Iraqi's was too insignificant for the front page.
And the question of impeachment also raised by demonstrators? Hardly if ever mentioned.
Now get ready for the war against Iran.
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