Do you remember the tactics used during the first world war? You know, when the generals would send a fresh group of recruits out of the trenches to run at the enemy and get shot to pieces, then a few minutes later another group would jump out of the trenches with the same result. This happened again and again and again. It feels a lot like what StopTheWar have been doing for the last few years, the same tactics with diminishing numbers.

Last night i went to Downing street to the demonstration and listened for a few minutes to Lindsey German shrieking about 'building the biggest protest movement to stop the cuts and the war...see you on the next march'! Well seeing as 2003 got millions on to the streets, how will doing the same thing over and over and over again with diminishing numbers end the war or the cuts?

Look at the French and Greeks and consider whether they are more switched on when it comes to tactics..? Leading people holding placards on a guided walk around London does not seem all that effective.

You have been organising resistance against the war which is more than most others have been attempting to do. It just all feels a bit too repetitive, don't you think?

Well, come on all of you, big strong men,
Uncle Sam needs your help again.
He's got himself in a terrible jam
Way down yonder in Afghanistan
So put down your books and pick up a gun,
We're gonna have a whole lotta fun.

And it's one, two, three,
What are we fighting for ?
Don't ask me, I don't give a damn,
Next stop is Afghanistan;
And it's five, six, seven,
Open up the pearly gates,
Well there ain't no time to wonder why,
Whoopee! we're all gonna die.

Come on Wall Street, don't be slow,
Why man, this is war a-go-go
There's plenty good money to be made
By supplying the Army with the tools of its trade,
But just hope and pray that if they drop the bomb,
They drop it on the Taliban.

And it's one, two, three,
What are we fighting for ?
Don't ask me, I don't give a damn,
Next stop is Afghanistan.
And it's five, six, seven,
Open up the pearly gates,
Well there ain't no time to wonder why
Whoopee! we're all gonna die.

Well, come on generals, let's move fast;
Your big chance has come at last.
Now you can go out and get those reds
'Cause the only good muslim is the one that's dead
And you know that peace can only be won
When we've blown 'em all to kingdom come.

And it's one, two, three,
What are we fighting for ?
Don't ask me, I don't give a damn,
Next stop is Afghanistan;
And it's five, six, seven,
Open up the pearly gates,
Well there ain't no time to wonder why
Whoopee! we're all gonna die.

Come on mothers throughout the land,
Pack your boys off to Afghanistan.
Come on fathers, and don't hesitate
To send your sons off before it's too late.
And you can be the first ones in your block
To have your boy come home in a box.

And it's one, two, three
What are we fighting for ?
Don't ask me, I don't give a damn,
Next stop is Afghanistan.
And it's five, six, seven,
Open up the pearly gates,
Well there ain't no time to wonder why,
Whoopee! we're all gonna die.
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4xD8j8ye9k

but have you (we/us) really engaged with it? or are we merely going through the (e)motions.

This is what anti-war protests should be like, angry and militant because war is MURDER!
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3nYGoppmoA

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