to cross talk of the anti-war movement has vanished i'm joined by angela keaton in los angeles she is antiwar dot com development director and anti-war radio producer also in los angeles we have various russell he is a historian and author of a renegade history of the united states and in ann arbor we cross to michael heaney he is assistant professor of organizational studies and political science at the university of michigan ok cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want but first let's have a look at the anti-war movement then and now. what happened so the answer was months so just drive to bush's war in iraq mass demonstrations in the straits on city squares and in front of the white house whereas a brave fires for peace activists adamantly opposed to military interventions have always tried to reflect public opinion and influence policy makers how much has changed the answer vietnam war movement moved in. major impact by nine hundred sixty eight faced with widespread public opposition to the war in troubling prospects in vietnam the johnson administrati

onslaught with anonymous obama kicking ass in iraq the government keeping a lot of asses in syria and angela keaton joins with that in the arab summer context got a case of the mondays well we've got that here you're watching adam vs the man. ok so you can stop being afraid for well until the politicians tell you to be afraid of them they is minus two days until the fall day yes wednesday would be the day that the federal government is incapable of pain its bills but it seems that a deal has been struck giving obama. oh just four hundred billion dollars to type things over and over five hundred billion dollars coming down the pike if the congress does not explicitly require him or deny him the five hundred billion dollars so that nine hundred billion dollars increase in the debt i would supposedly be matched by savings over the coming decade yes isn't that a wonderful there i think this is what obama referred to as well what did he call it again the if you want a balanced approach a balanced approach this balanced approach for a balanced approach what we're talking about under a balanced approach i