Where is the antiwar movement headed?
March 10, 2006 | Page 8 ELIZABETH WRIGLEY-FIELD, a member of the national coordinating committee of the Campus Antiwar Network and of the International Socialist Organization, looks at the state of the antiwar movement as activists build for March 18 protests across the country. – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – MARCH 20 will mark the third anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Three years of occupation have devastated a country already crippled by a decade of deadly U.S. sanctions and war. Every justification used by the Bush administration to sell the war–from imaginary weapons of mass destruction to Saddam Hussein’s nonexistent links to al-Qaeda–has proven to be a lie. The biggest lie of all has turned out to be the administration’s claim that the U.S. military would “liberate” the Iraqi people. Instead, the U.S. has used torture, death squads and a colonial strategy of divide-and-conquer to crush all resistance. Ordinary people in the U.S. have also paid a price for three years
