Acorn Sound off –– Michael Picarella

Acorn Sound off –– Michael Picarella

"In Vietnam, the protests really didn't begin until after the war had begun. The peace protests should be before actual combat. The first time American soldiers are engaged, the protests have to end and support of the soldiers must begin." -Ross Pool Calabasas (Vietnam Veteran)

a possible war in the Middle East?

"I don't think the United States has taken all the right steps. In the beginning, I was opposed to the peace rallies, but now I'm right there with them. I believe that the U.S. needs to back down. We need to maintain our super power, but nonetheless, we've gone about it in all the wrong ways." -Julie Hickey Agoura Hills "I think we need to back whatever our country decides to do. We need to keep people like Saddam Hussein from becoming something powerful. There's going to be a day when they are powerful enough to do something-proven by what happened with the World Trade-maybe not with Iraq, but they are somehow involved with these terrorists." -Ryan Roskowski Agoura Hills "I agree with the peace rallies. I don't really believe in war. I think there are other ways around it. I think Saddam needs to be dealt with somehow, but I don't think all these Iraqi children need to be dying because their leader-who they may not even agree with-is making all these wack decisions." -Casey Smith Oak Park "I always agree with people's right to peacefully assemble. It's their constitutional right to voice their opinion. That's what this country was founded on." -Mike Rosenberg Oak Park