San Francisco March: January 27th - Part 2

Notice that the interviewer asks something like:

Don't you think there will be tremendous violence in Iraq if we leave? which gets a pretty weak response.

Unless the question was asked with the intention of getting a strong refutation, I can only conclude that the interviewer is uninformed or brainwashed by the corporate media.
One may think of a Soviet journalist asking that same question when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan.

Poll after poll has shown that the people whose opinion matters --the Iraqis-- think that the presence of US forces makes violence worse and that the US invaded to take control of Iraqi oil and gain strategic power. Only 1% believe they improve security and more than half supports attacks on US/UK troops.

Therefore, the assumptions of the question asked fall within the framework of the propaganda system.
We have to make an effort to look at our invasion of Iraq with the right moral assumptions, as we do when others commit aggression (such as when the Russians invaded Afghanistan)-- otherwise we are hypocrites who strengthen the propaganda system.

The mainstream media asks the question "will there be tremendous violence in Iraq if we leave?" all the time. However, it seldom if ever asks that question of people who opposes the war.

I pointedly asked that question to find out what an alternative response would sound like.

Some protesters may be cautious but they are not brainwashed.

I was pleasantly surprised to discover that most protesters opposing our government today deeply understand how they have been mislead by it and the mainstream media.