Chron Story on Peace Activists Forgets to Include Dismissive Right-wing Quote at End

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Thu, Apr 10, 2003 8:54AM

Where's the angry motorist? Where's the local rep from Free Republic (in a group of 5 at a rally of 50,000)? Where's the person who supports peace but not protests? Oh, right, there's the unidentified activists who "acknowledge privately that the movement has lost numbers in recent weeks, and worry that Americans don't see it as relevant with the Pentagon apparently about to win a war that is popular in the United States." There we go.

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Peace activists regroup for postwar world
Greater stress on economic cost of invasion, occupation of Iraq

Joe Garofoli, Chronicle Staff Writer Thursday, April 10, 2003
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Peace activists say they aren't being derailed by polls showing their support fading, or by televised images of cheering Iraqis greeting invading U. S. soldiers and dragging the severed head of a Saddam Hussein statue through Baghdad.

Instead, they're altering their message: They still want the U.S. military to pull out of Iraq, but now they're calling for the United Nations or a neutral third party to handle Iraq's transition to a democracy.

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