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Where is the Anti-War Movement?

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Where is the Anti-War Movement?

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While environmental, labor, energy and health care activists are mobilizing for change, the same cannot be said for the anti-war movement. Even the widely-used term movement is a misnomer, as the street protests that surrounded the U.S. invasion of Iraq did not create a mass organizational base from which ongoing challenges to the nations military budget or foreign policy could be waged. Trained as a community organizer, President Obama no doubt looks at the lack of grassroots mobilizing against his Iraq, Afghanistan, and military budget policies and concludes that his critics lack a popular base. After all, as a candidate for President he repeatedly told audiences that he could not institute change by himself, but that real change required constituencies to mobilize once he reached the White House. Unfortunately, grassroots resistance to steep military spending levels and to the intensification of the Afghanistan conflict has not emerged. And since we have a President trained as a com

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