Haven't we learned anything since Vietnam?

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Forty years ago, at another political convention in Chicago, anti-war protesters took to the streets to protest an illegal war brought on the American and Vietnamese people by a multitude of lies. Forty years later in Denver, anti-war protesters took to the streets protesting an illegal war brought on the American and Iraqi people by another criminal administration by a multitude of lies.

Have we not learned anything in those 40 years? Apparently the politicians responsible for those lies have learned how to take the streets back from the protesters with free-speech zones behind chain link fences and police armed to the teeth to beat anyone to a pulp. Reminds me of our armed forces with all the technology beating down some Third World country, like we perceive Iraq to be, that is armed in a third-class fashion.

We have Barack Obama with a "choice of wars," and John McCain for war seemingly in perpetuity. We have both Obama and McCain increasing the already obscenely bloated war budget while our social infrastructure from health care to education to clean energy are rated as second class. We have learned nothing in those 40 years.