Anti-War Movement

The U.S. antiwar movement has emerged in the months before the war. More than a million people marched Feb. 15, 2003. Quickly emerged from military organizations and military families opposed to the war in Iraq. Mass demonstrations and military involvement in the movement are two factors which had taken years to develop during the Vietnam War. But the beginning of this war and the establishment of the occupation proved very difficult times for the movement. First, I think many people, especially those who supported the first time (tens of thousands of people), were absolutely convinced that the war was simply a mistake and that the importance of the event 15 February prevents it starts. When the war started despite protests - that Bush appeared as the act of a very small minority group - many began to doubt their effectiveness (Roger, 114-69). Then the beginning of the occupation led to a political crisis in the antiwar movement when he was united in its opposition to the war. Suddenly became a major debate between those who continued to demand the immediate withdrawal of U.S. forces and those who felt that now that the U.S. occupied Iraq, they had a responsibility to develop the country and defend it against the forces of fundamentalist Muslims (Charles, 58-95). A caricature of the Iraqi resistance, which presented it as consisting primarily of fundamentalist fanatics, has been used by sections of the antiwar movement to defend the retention of troops in Iraq. Both factors have helped divert the antiwar movement mobilizations and direct it toward the domestic political pre-electoral. Increasingly, support for the Democratic party for 2004 elections appeared to be the most to defeat Bush. It began by supporting those candidates who had openly engaged against the war, like Dennis Kucinich and Howard Dean, but ended with the support procure candidate John Kerry. The result is that there was no national response against the assaults on Fallujah or the terrifying torture scandal at Abu Ghraib. The antiwar movement was completely demobilized during the election race, and when the strategy of "realistic" failed in its stated aim to remove Bush, he experienced a major crisis. Only in recent months we have begun to see a revival of the antiwar movement. The public sentiment of opposition to the war has continued to evolve and this is beginning to be felt in the movement. We saw the courageous stand taken by Cindy Sheehan, whose son was killed in Iraq. When Cindy began camping outside George Bush's ranch in Texas, many people saw this as an opportunity to revive the movement. Thousands of people have made ??the trip to Crawford, Texas to join his camp, and an even larger crowd attended rallies in support of Cindy. In recent months, we have also seen the extension of a national movement against the operations of military recruitment in schools. Decisions have been taken against this practice in many school districts, and a series of direct confrontations between students and recruiters have ...