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Time constraints, absent celebrities hamper peaceniks’ efforts. 

Millions of peace protesters say they’ve been too busy to protest Russia’s invasion and occupation of Georgia.

“I really had lots to do the past couple of weekends. I’m all booked up for this weekend, too,” said Fawn Hallerback, liaison for the Altoona branch of Moms for Peace. “I have to get groceries, stain the porch, and meet with a couple of friends for drinks.”

While the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq and continual aggression against Tibet normally draw crowds of angry peace protesters, the conflict in Georgia hasn’t attracted any attention at all.

Hallerback added a few hundred Russian armored vehicles and support vehicles are far less threatening than Dick Cheney and a tirade from Alec Baldwin.

Code Pink organizers also encountered scheduling conflicts, according to the organization’s concessions mynager and social chairwomyn, Adeline Yip.

“What a time for an invasion,” Yip said. “We have the summer picnic this week! It’s so hard to reschedule that.”

Ern Mashott, a Penn State student, said that the lackluster support for Georgia may come from a lack of celebrity involvement.

“Who’s really pushing it, Clooney? Does South Ossetia have, like, a Dalai Lama, or something?” said Mashott. “I think I’ll wait for some A-listers to sign up before I get on board and break out the peace drums.”

Other protesters are finding it hard to target former communist countries.

“It’s like if you had an old friend, who fell on hard times and robbed a bank, would you go out and kick him down,” Mashott said. “Nah. These Russians are okay in my book. I mean the only difference between communism and national socialism is just graphic design work, at least in my eyes.”

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