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WHY DEMOCRATS WON'T STOP THE WAR
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In These Times
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June 1, 2008
- Author:
- Sirota, David
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THE NATIONWIDE OPPOSITION TO the Iraq War is based on a host of populist impulses. Some people hate it because they think lives are being sacrificed to pursue the oil industry's agenda. Some despise it because, without a military draft, the US. casualties-4,000-plus and counting-are disproportionately working-class kids. Still others abhor the war because it drains scarce resources away from pressing priorities at home. And yet, despite this groundswell of antiwar sentiment, the campaign to stop the war is adrift and dysfunctional.
On the one side are groups like United for Peace and Justice, that head what progressive activist Matt Stoller has deemed "The Protest Industry"-a clan "made up ...