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The NY Times' advertisements for war (misnamed "News" and "Opinion")
include one overwhelming fact about Americans' opinions. Buried in
the jump from the "Week in Review" article about (one aspect of )
the US war in the Mideast - and thoroughly cushioned by persiflage -
it is revealed that <br>
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"In a CBS News poll last week ... 59 percent said that the United
States did not do the right thing going to war in Iraq in the first
place and 72 percent said that the war was not worth the loss of
life and other costs to the country..."!<br>
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These numbers are all the more remarkable because these opinions are
simply not heard anywhere in the US media. But people are not
fools, in spite of the force of government and media propaganda. <br>
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By the late 1960's, 70 percent of Americans
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regarded the war in Vietnam as "fundamentally wrong and immoral," <em>not
"a mistake</em>" - but that was with a vigorous antiwar movement
and hence a higher level of political discussion in the media. <br>
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