I'm to young to have participated in previous anti-war activities. This is the first war which I could say I am sufficiently against that I will get up and try and do something about it.
Having said that, my experience with the anti-war movement is that it is NOT dominated by life-long activists and pacifists who look down anyone who thinks there are legitimate reasons to go to war. There are certainly people like that at the rallies and they certainly have an over-representative membership in the organization. But there are a lot of people at the rallies who are there simply because they don't like this war or the way it is being pushed.
I think, if pressed, they would find much of Mr. Lind's argument to match their own feelings about Mr. Bush's little war. Most of them just don't have the background or the vocabulary to describe the problems as well as Mr. Lind does.
My impression is that the anti-war movement is much bigger then the fringe elements who have protested every military action since the beginning of time. It's gotten way beyond them by now and is very open to all comers. Including those who may agree with the idea of using military force to remove Saddam.
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