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I swear most of HN barely reads a thread before firing off some half-baked retort. The comment above about Phil Donahue was a reply to this:

>Imagine if he had resigned in protest at the decision to push for the invasion of Iraq. He would now be hailed as a hero around the world.

Nowhere in the above reply about Donahue was there an implication that people shouldn't protest, or that the virtue of their actions are based on whether those actions keep them in the limelight.