Where Are All The War Protestors?

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Where Have All The War Protesters Gone? -- Salon

The largest demonstrations ever have largely dissipated, even as we've launched new wars. Why a movement sputtered.

The outrage that greeted the run-up to the Bush-Blair Iraq war debacle generated what must have been the largest antiwar rallies and demonstrations in the history of the world. Sometimes in subzero temperatures, millions of marchers in New York, London and elsewhere took to the streets to interrupt the roar of self-righteous crypto-imperial bravado, to barge through George Bush's strutters' ball and its fevers of fantastical, deceptive and self-deceptive claims about Saddam Hussein's danger to the United States and Washington's promise to parachute democracy into Saddam's stricken land. In the well-chosen words of one London sign, the marchers were "Shocked, Not Awed."

Then the marches stopped.

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My Comment: Bush, Blair, and others are mentioned directly in this article .... but not Obama. OK. What is my take on why the anti-war movement has disappeared .... to put it bluntly, the tap of money to these groups was quickly closed after their favorite son was elected. But if President Obama is defeated in 2012, do not be surprise if the anti-war movement will all of a sudden re-materialize.