All over campus I see people walking around with handwritten signs attached to their backpacks that read, “NO WAR.” Now I’m not a big fan of Bush’s calls for war myself, but I find it hard to take these silly little signs seriously. To be fair, I do respect the people that bear these signs, because I realize that you open yourself up to a world of judgment and grief when you wear your politics on your sleeve (or your back, as the case may be). But honestly, what do these people really think they’re accomplishing? Maybe they’re hoping that one day, President Bush will take a look at satellite photos of the college campus, see the “NO WAR” signs plastered across their backs, and then he’ll say to himself, “Holy shit, they’re right.” Then he’ll call up Saddam to patch things up because, as we all know, dictators respond to love. Am I being too fatalistic? Because I seriously doubt there’s a damn thing the public can do to stop this war.