Reason: Remember the Antiwar Movement?

[sailingaway]

http://reason.com/blog/2011/03/21/remember-the-antiwar-movement

[RonPaulFanInGA]

Maybe antiwar organizers assumed that they had elected the man who would stop the war. After all, Barack Obama rose to power on the basis of his early opposition to the Iraq war and his promise to end it. But after two years in the White House he has made both of George Bush’s wars his wars....

It’s hard to escape the conclusion that antiwar activity in the United States and around the world was driven as much by antipathy to George W. Bush as by actual opposition to war and intervention.

No sh**. The anti-war protests were a farce. They were mostly anti-Bush rallies. Many of those same exact people are probably now cheering on Obama's new war on Libya.

[Philhelm]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8E_zMLCRNg

Yeah, they're chillin' with the gentleman above. ^

[Bern]

Justin Raimondo asked the question back in October of last year:

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2010/10/26/whatever-happened-to-the-antiwar-movement-2/

[Krugerrand]

No sh**. The anti-war protests were a farce. They were mostly anti-Bush rallies. Many of those same exact people are probably now cheering on Obama's new war on Libya.

When DEM's complain about the Tea Party (usually geared towards the likes of Sarah Palin) I compare the Tea Party and the GOP to the anti-war movement and the Democratic Party. They'll try and make it useful for themselves ... but don't expect the political machines to believe any of it.

[RM918]

Just like I've seen noted in a few comments, there was never an anti-war movement. Just an anti-Bush movement that used the war as a popular blunt instrument.

[brandon]

No sh**. The anti-war protests were a farce. They were mostly anti-Bush rallies. Many of those same exact people are probably now cheering on Obama's new war on Libya.

I wouldn't go that far. I took a fairly active role in planning some of those demonstrations back when the Iraq war started, and I'm still here.

The anti-war movement started off as a genuine grass roots movement about ending the wars, and as it grew in size it was slowly and completely co-opted by the establishment. Basically the same exact thing that is happening to the tea party.

[tangent4ronpaul]

We should hype Obama as the perfect neo-con candidate:

His 3 wars
His destruction of civil rights
His dealing with the debt by devaluing the US dollar
His closeness with corporate interests by hiring many from those ranks
And so on.

-t