[lbo-talk] Iraq war "clearer" to Americans than WW 2

[H. Curtiss Leung]

> 
> But my point is that the lack of organizing of that global solidarity and
> plan on how to help those resisting Hussein is exactly what strengthened the
> warhawks in arguing that their method was the only way to "liberate Iraq."
> In practice and in message, there was little or no message by the antiwar
> movement on how they were acting in solidarity with the oppressed folks
> within Iraq.
> 
> And that was the fatal flaw of antiwar organizing.
> 

That's pure conjecture, and a pretty dubious one at that.  Given that some
depressingly high percentage of the populace thinks that Saddam Hussein was
involved with the WTC bombings, why not say that the fatal flaw of antiwar
organizing was the inability to disspell this misconception?

--
Curtiss