Thousands in SF March to Union Square To Meet Up With Huge Antiwar Rally

It's good to see that people in the US oppose the war of
Bush and co.

Have the French gotten a bum rap as America haters and appeasers? A new poll offers some evidence they may have. Ha'aretz reports a poll by five French newspapers asked Frenchmen which country is the biggest threat to world peace. America placed only fourth, while Iraq was the top choice. So far, so good, though Israel was No. 2. (No. 3 was Afghanistan.)

http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=217563

The International Herald Tribune reports on two new best-selling books that "are confronting the French with the proposition that their anti-Americanism is a self-inflicted national illness":

For one of the authors, the anti-Americanism of the French is a willful delusion, an attempt by a dominant political and intellectual caste to mask its own failures and insignificance.

For the other, French anti-Americanism is a centuries-old tradition--a layered accumulation of condescension and fear, vastly more significant than the French gift of a Statue of Liberty to the United States or the assistance of a Marquis de Lafayette--and a rare terrain in French national life where conflicting political and intellectual forces can find common ground.

"We keep creating a mythological America in order to avoid asking ourselves questions about our real problems," the IHT quotes one of the authors, Philippe Rogers, as saying. "And they're problems that the Americans don't have much to do with."

http://www.iht.com/articles/73170.html

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make copies, sing it, pass it along--let's stop this before it goes any farther