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From: gary@neit.cgd.ucar.edu (Gary Strand)
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Subject: Re: Actually, Nine Percent Ain't Bad
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Date: 3 Apr 91 06:59:01 GMT
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> Gordon Fitch
  
  [Peace movement is growing based on percentages of opposition to Vietnam
   and Gulf Wars]

  Quite a remarkable thesis, Gordon. Too bad it's bogus. 

  Since you admit that the figures may be non-factual, then doesn't that wipe
  out the reliability of your starting numbers? And without a foundation,
  doesn't a house (or chain of logic) fall?

  I suppose one could note the (later) much-larger opposition to the Vietnam
  War and say that the lower opposition to the Gulf War means that the peace
  movement is in *decline*. Or the lack of huge peace demonstrations that were
  all the rage about 8-10 years ago. Where did the peaceniks go?
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