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	Opposition to the Vietnam War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		By the end of the war in 1973, due to the reality of escalating U.S. casualties and the growing feeling that the war itself could not be won, the majority of Americans were opposed to the war.
		The first draft lottery since World War II in the United States was held on 1 December 1969 and was met with large protests and a great deal of controversy; statistical analysis indicated that the methodology of the lotteries unintentionally disadvantaged men with late year birthdays.
		Civilian critics of the war argued that the government of South Vietnam lacked political legitimacy, or that support for the war was immoral.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Opposition_to_the_Vietnam_War (1685 words)

	Anti-war - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Many veterans of that war were extremely cynical about the motivations for entering the war, but were willing to fight later in the Spanish Civil War, indicating that pacifism was not always the motivation.
		This sentiment grew in strength as the Cold War seemed to present the situation of an unending series of conflicts, which were fought at terrible cost to the younger generation.
		After the war the Red Badge of Courage presented the chaos and sense of death which hovers over the style of combat which was growing in importance: away from the set engagement, and towards two armies engaging in continuous combat over a wide area.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anti-war (864 words)

	The Vietnam War protests
		The Vietnam war protests,or Anti-war movement, initiated by college students, was instrumental in questioning the policies surrounding America's involvement in Indochina's affairs.
		The Vietnam conflict was a war whose origins many did not understand, that seemed an exercise in futility, and that left a nation questioning the policies of a government they’d always trusted.
		People realised that the glowing reviews of the war effort their government had been releasing were “sanitised” and far from the truth.
	ohoh.essortment.com /vietnamwarprot_rlcz.htm (1650 words)

	The Anti-War Movement in the United States
		As the war expanded—over 400,000 U.S. troops would be in Vietnam by 1967—so did the antiwar movement, attracting growing support off the campuses.
		The American movement against the Vietnam War was the most successful antiwar movement in U.S. history.
		Hayden cited the uncertainty of life in Cold War America and the degradation of African Americans in the South as examples of the failure of liberal ideology and called for a reevaluation of academic acquiescence in what he claimed was a dangerous conspiracy to maintain a sense of apathy among American youth.
	www.english.uiuc.edu /maps/vietnam/antiwar.html (3055 words)

	Anti-War Quotes from See Sharp Press
		You cannot, when the war is proclaimed, pull a switch and turn the community from the moral code of peace to that of war and then, when the armistice is signed, pull a nother switch and reconnect the whole society with its old moral regulations again.
		A people at war have become in the most literal sense obedient, respectful, trustful children again, full of that naive faith in the all-wisdom and all-power of the adult who takes care of them, imposes his mild but necessary rule upon them and to whom they lose their responsibility and anxieties.
		Still other millions are trained to war and are ever ready to answer to their master's call, to desert their homes and trades and offer up their lives to satisfy the vain ambitions of the ruler of the state.
	www.seesharppress.com /warquotes.html (5169 words)

	Iraq War
		The truth about the Iraq war may be clear to John Murtha and 60 percent of the American people, but not to the three Democratic senators interested in becoming President in 2008.
		As President Bush denounces his critics and proclaims war without end in Iraq the central front in a new cold war, he fails to acknowledge that he is responsible for handing Al Qaeda a new home base.
		War hero and former NFL star Pat Tillman was not the GI Joe icon created by Pentagon spinmeisters.
	www.thenation.com /directory/iraq_war (3052 words)

	AlterNet: Covering the Anti-War
		In much of the US media, questions of war and peace have been the province of the punditocracy from the think tanks and war rooms where the issue focuses on how wars can be fought, rather than whether they should be fought at all.
		War gives journalists a chance to show how brave they are in a macho sport where only the strong survive.
		While more than 100,000 soldiers in the Gulf are poised to march off to war, over 10 times that number seemed to be marching against it as protests erupted in more than 37 cities worldwide last weekend.
	www.alternet.org /story.html?StoryID=14993 (1060 words)

	The Memory Hole > The Anti-war Speech That Earned Eugene Debs 10 Years in Prison
		And you may notice that as the current administration bangs the drum for war against Iraq, Afghanistan, and 60 other countries, the anti-war portions of this speech are as relevant now as they were 84 years ago.
		The poor, ignorant serfs had been taught to revere their masters; to believe that when their masters declared war upon one another, it was their patriotic duty to fall upon one another and to cut one another's throats for the profit and glory of the lords and barons who held them in contempt.
		The poor, ignorant serfs had been taught to revere their masters; to believe that when their masters declared war upon one another, it was their patriotic duty to fall upon one another and to cut one another’s throats for the profit and glory of the lords and barons who held them in contempt.
	www.thememoryhole.org /war/debs-speech.htm (11484 words)

	Stop the War Coalition Groups
		Camberwell Stop the War was formed in early 2003 at the height of the struggle to stop the US and the UK attacking Iraq and seeks to continue the struggle against further unjust wars and occupations.
		Dorking Stop the War Coalition are a broad-based coalition of individuals opposed to the military response to the events of September 11th.
		Wycombe Stop The War Group is a coalition of individuals and groups from the Wycombe area who have come together to voice our opposition to the war.
	www.stopwar.org.uk /groups.asp (2081 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Special reports Special report: the anti-war movement
		April 22: Greenpeace is to ask the House of Lords, the country's highest court, to rule on the legality of the war against Iraq in a test case which could also determine the scope of the new international criminal court's powers.
		June 15: The Stop the War coalition today called on the government to allow peaceful protest in Gleneagles to coincide with the meeting of G8 leaders.
		May 13: Lynton Crosby, the Conservatives' Australian campaign director, said yesterday the party was wrong to focus so strongly on the Iraq war in the final phase of the election.
	www.guardian.co.uk /antiwar/0,12809,879311,00.html (1263 words)

	Rise and Fall of the Anti-Vietnam War Movement in the U.S.
		An aspect of this war is the rise of a large anti-war movement in the U.S. This has stimulated a lot of analysis and discussion of the anti-war movement during the Vietnam war.
		It offered a solid anti-imperialist analysis of the war in Vietnam and called for international solidarity with the Vietnamese and militant action; this was in contrast to most of the anti-war movement, which was trying to blame the whole war on President Johnson.
		Large parts of Cambodia were devastated, populations were dislocated, and famine and war brought on by the U.S. war against Vietnam led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands there, and the Vietnamese had to cope with thousands of injured, with destroyed industrial facilities, and with burned and poisoned land.
	chss.montclair.edu /english/furr/Vietnam/riseandfall.html (13787 words)

	NPR : War with Iraq : Questioning War
		The war in Iraq generates accusations of unethical tactics by both sides, from charges that Iraq is using a hospital as a military base to allegations from Iraq that U.S. missiles have targeted civilians.
		New polls show the number of Americans who think the war is going well is down from 70 percent to 38 percent.
		With steady support among Americans for the assault on Iraq, activists also look for ways to oppose the war while showing support for the troops who are fighting it.
	www.npr.org /news/specials/iraq2003/questioning.html (1298 words)

	AllRefer.com - anti–Vietnam War movement (U.S. History) - Encyclopedia
		anti–Vietnam War movement, domestic and international reaction (1965–73) in opposition to U.S. policy during the Vietnam War.
		By 1967 the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) invoked the language of revolution in its denunciations of the war in Vietnam as an inevitable consequence of American imperialism.
		Opposition to the war grew as television and press coverage graphically showed the suffering of both civilians and conscripts.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/A/antiViet.html (426 words)

	ANSWER Los Angeles. Act Now to Stop War and End Racism
		The war and occupation of Iraq cannot be seen in isolation.
		The >threat= that the Pentagon is protecting against is a powerful mass movement of opposition to the U.S. war drive,@ said Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, attorney and co-founder of the Partnership for Civil Justice and co-chair of the NLG Mass Defense Committee.
		Be a part of building the movement to stop the war and end colonial occupation in Iraq, Palestine, Afghanistan, Haiti, and everywhere.
	www.answerla.org (1400 words)

	Casualties in Iraq - 2006
		Between 8 and 10 percent of nearly 12,000 soldiers from the war on terror, mostly from Iraq, treated at the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany had "psychiatric or behavioral health issues," according to the commander of the hospital, Col. Rhonda Cornum.
		The hospital has treated 11,754 soldiers from the war on terror, with 9,651 from Iraq and the rest from Afghanistan, according to data released by the hospital.
		As many as 1 of every 10 soldiers from the war on terror evacuated to the Army's biggest hospital in Europe was sent there for mental problems.
	www.antiwar.com /casualties (218 words)

	Infoshop.org - Stop the War Machine - No War Between Nations, No Peace Between Classes
		Anti-Capitalist Call to action against the war and U.S. Imperialism by the Anti-Capitalist Convergence
		A war founded on illusions, lies and right-wing ideology was bound to founder in blood and fire.
		Fighting the next war not the last one by Michael Novick
	www.infoshop.org /antiwar.html (384 words)

	+ WAR + Iraq Poster Exhibition +
		We seek contributions from all sides of the war debate, and from designers at all levels of ability, from students to well-known industry veterans.
		One member of the design forum suggested that the other members offset their war anxieties by focusing their energies in a more positive way.
		But all are intended to stimulate discussion about the issues surrounding the war, both inside the online design community and beyond.
	war.miniaturegigantic.com (160 words)

	http://www.qando.net/ - Anti-War?
		It is really a disgrace that the liberal press refers to such enemies of liberalism as "antiwar" when in reality they are straight-out pro-war, but on the other side.
		Christopher Hitchens isn't impressed by the "anti-war" credentials of the organizers of this past week's protest in Washington.
		But to have a record of consistent support for war and militarism, from the Red Army in Eastern Europe to the Serbian ethnic cleansers and the Taliban, is quite another.
	www.qando.net /details.aspx?Entry=2642 (1076 words)

	Anti-war
		President Bush's announcement of a war against terrorism has mobilized a new kind of peace movement, one that is forged in the common experience of fear and grief and in the hope that any U.S. military response will not make matters worse.
		The U.S. Constitution provides the means for preventing George W. Bush from engaging in a war of aggression against Iraq, and from advancing a first strike potentially nuclear preemptive war.
		Presents a positive vision for America's role in the world after 9/11 and is supported by a variety of membership organizations who yearn for social uplift and a safer world.
	www.geocities.com /weisskirche/anti_war.html (567 words)

	BBC NEWS England London Thousands stage anti-war protest
		He added: "It is a war for oil and power and they are trying to present it as a religious war.
		It said: "The war and occupation have brought neither democracy nor peace to Iraq.
		Andrew Murray, chairman of the Stop The War coalition, said: "We are marching to defend our civil liberties which are under attack and to show our solidarity with the Muslim communities who are bearing the brunt of that attack."
	news.bbc.co.uk /go/rss/-/1/hi/england/london/4275542.stm (598 words)

	_.:!:._Anti-War Posters_.:!:.
		Now we have a "mission" too: stop a war that´s killing innocent people.
		As grafic designers, artists or creatives in gerneral we have the knowledge and the skills to focus the publics attention on a singular topic.
		If enough of us come together and "speak out" loud, our voice will be heard and many encourage others to do the same.
	www.designverbund.de (60 words)

	Stop the War Coalition
		Mobilise for international demonstrations on March 18-19 2006, the third anniversary of the war and invasion, calling for the immediate withdrawal of troops and an end to the occupation.
		Organise international demonstrations on March 18-19 2006, the third anniversary of the war and invasion, calling for the immediate withdrawal of troops and an end to the occupation.
		The day the 100th soldier's death is reported members of Military Families Against the War will lead a vigil in Parliament Square and the names of these 100 soldiers and of 100 Iraqi dead will be read out.
	www.stopwar.org.uk (1461 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Special reports Guide to anti-war websites
		A non-political, educational campaign against war and racism and in support of grassroots democracy, including teach-ins, conferences, local and regional events.
		Group of war veterans who argue they must play a key role in the public debate over national security issues.
		Group asking people to sign up to a campaign saying that 'the only war worth fighting is the war on poverty'.
	www.guardian.co.uk /antiwar/subsection/0,12809,884056,00.html (1086 words)

	Fonda Back on Anti-Warpath - Jul 26, 2005 - E! Online News
		This time around, Fonda will be traveling aboard a vegetable oil-powered bus, accompanied by her daughter and the families of Iraq war veterans.
		Fonda, 67, has not spoken out on any war since taking her infamous stand against the Vietnam war.
		The actress announced her plans to embark on a cross-country roadtrip to protest the war in Iraq during an event to promote her autobiography, Jane Fonda: My Life So Far.
	www.eonline.com /News/Items/0,1,17020,00.html?tnews (387 words)

	Anti-War: Vietnam War
		This book is Carroll's story of what it was like to be an anti-war priest in the '60s while his father was an Air Force general deeply involved in Pentagon planning.
		An American Ordeal: The Antiwar Movement of the Vietnam War (Syracuse Studies on Peace and Conflict Resolution) (Link to Amazon)
		It was organized to voice the growing opposition among returning servicemen and women to the still-raging war in Indochina, and grew rapidly to a membership of over 30,000 throughout the United States as well as active duty GIs stationed in Vietnam.
	www.vietnamwar.net /antiwar/antiwar.htm (289 words)

	Antiwar.com
		Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
		Tamils Flee to India Fearing War in Sri Lanka
		War in Sri Lanka Could Cause More Malnutrition Than Tsunami
	www.antiwar.com (684 words)

	BBC NEWS World Americas Anti-war rally held in Washington
		Anti-war rallies were also being held in other cities across the US as well as in London, Paris and Rome but in many cases the numbers were down on protests in previous years.
		Among those joining the protest was Cindy Sheehan, the mother of a fallen soldier in Iraq, whose protest outside President Bush's Texas ranch during the summer mobilised many anti-war supporters.
		Opinion polls show a majority in the US believe the war in Iraq is going badly and US troops should be brought home.
	news.bbc.co.uk /go/rss/-/1/hi/world/americas/4278960.stm (439 words)

	Republican China: III
		After the war, the Soviet Union, as part of the Yalta agreement's allowing a Soviet sphere of influence in Manchuria, dismantled and removed more than half the industrial equipment left there by the Japanese.
		Chinese fury against Japan was predictable, but anger was also directed against the Guomindang government, which at the time was more preoccupied with anti-Communist extermination campaigns than with resisting the Japanese invaders.
		In 1945 China emerged from the war nominally a great military power but actually a nation economically prostrate and on the verge of all-out civil war.
	www-chaos.umd.edu /history/republican3.html (439 words)

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