Word: antiwar
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...There are, in fact, many reasons why Iraq is nothing like Vietnam or any other U.S. experience, but both sides in the American debate over the war have chosen to ignore them. For the antiwar left, Iraq has always recalled the great American trauma of Vietnam, a misguided war of choice that ended badly after a decade of pointless savagery; for the war's advocates on the right, Iraq recalled the great American triumph of rebuilding postwar Japan and Germany. Yes, it is hard to imagine that they were serious, but it wasn't simply PR, either - some...
...antiauthoritarian--are suddenly on the verge of the big time. The gang of liberal bloggers and online activists who helped raise millions of dollars for Howard Dean's presidential campaign two years ago are now said to be Democratic kingmakers. Last month in Connecticut, they fanned anti-incumbent and antiwar flames and were widely credited with the primary defeat of Senator Joe Lieberman, leading him to run as an independent. After they relentlessly derided Senator Hillary Clinton as calculating, overly cautious and lacking true liberal bona fides, she hired an adviser just to deal with them and even demanded that...
...President Clinton. Thus was born MoveOn.org which now has 3.2 million members. Most of the bloggers who have become Netroots leaders can trace their influence back only a couple of years, to 2003 and '04, when the growth of partisan liberal online activism was spurred by a strain of antiwar, anti-Bush fervor and frustration with congressional Democrats for not standing up to the President. Blogs like Daily Kos and MyDD grew rapidly. Today their combined readership (more than a million people weekly) dwarfs that of the dead-tree versions of established purveyors of liberal thought like the New Republic...
...Ground Truth, which is the best film I?ve seen to emerge from the 9/11 attacks and the war that followed, is implicitly antiwar, I suppose. But it?s undeniably pro-troops - the ones who went to Iraq at the country?s call, and are now speaking out, demanding veterans? rights, a simple appreciation of their service and its awful cost. Some might say that to criticize the country you fought for is conduct unbecoming an officer. Huze disagrees: "[If] I didn?t speak out about it, that would be unbecoming...
PROVING THE EXISTENCE OF THE MISSING LINC Lincoln Chafee, the pro-choice, antiwar, handgun-hating Senator, wins his Rhode Island Senate primary, proving that the G.O.P. will do anything to keep its majority--even elect a Democrat...