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Example of Smoking while blogging….

I’m trolling around some liberal blogs to see what they are talking about and I find this humorous post on the Daily Kos entitled: Led by musky capital, 6 million protest Iraq war.

Folks I tried to come up with some commentary to explain this ridiculous example of liberal logic, but I can’t.

Please feel free to attempt to explain this, if you figure it out let me know.

OK, that headline is only true in my dreams.But on a per capita basis, the equivalent happened on Iraq Moratorium #3 last Friday in Hayward, Wisconsin.

Hayward, a city of 2,129 in northwestern Wisconsin, is better know as the Musky Capital of the World than as a center of antiwar activism.

But 40 people turned out for a vigil to call for an ending the war and bringing our troops home.

If Milwaukeeans had turned out in equal numbers, as a percentage of the population, there would have been 12,000 at our downtown rush hour vigil Friday night. Instead, there were perhaps 100 at most.

In New York City, there would have been 160,000 in the streets. In Houston, 42,000. In San Jose, 18,000. And that’s without including any suburban populations.

This inspiring photo, which graces the Iraq Moratorium website, is not from Hayward, but from Sewanee, Tennessee, with a population of 2,335.

You can count about 30 people in that small community at last month’s Moratorium.  Its turnout is almost on a par with Hayward’s.

Those kinds of successes, in small town America, are what inspire activists in the antiwar movement and help to keep hope alive as the senseless, endless war continues.  

They are evidence, on a small scale, that the silent antiwar majority which expresses itself in every public opinion poll, really exists — and that with a lot of effort and a lot of patience it can be activated and mobilized.

Even the Hayward turnout is only on the order of two per cent.  At least 60 per cent of Americans say the war was a mistake, and that they want to end the war and bring the troops home.

But two per cent of the people could turn this country around.

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