What Happened to the Anti-War Movement?

After watching a number of the Winter Soldier Hearings, I found myself, once again, standing outside the Colorado State Capital at a lackluster peace rally wondering, "why this, again?" According to The Iraq Coalition Casualty Count, 3988 U.S. soldiers have been killed in Iraq. Over one-hundred have died from suicide, tens of thousands have been wounded. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have been murdered, countless injured, the soil irrevocably contaminated by depleted uranium, and the people traumatized. Over a third of the U.S. homeless population are veterans and rates of post-traumatic stress disorder have sky rocketed leaving hundreds of thousands of young people forever scarred by Iraq. No need to review the senselessness of this war, the lies that provoked it, the wealthy who send poor Americans to die for oil.

We need to bring the war home. People in the United States need to feel it. Peace vigils fail to bring attention to the horror of the situation. We need the rage and trauma of war to ring through the streets shattering the illusion that "everything's ok." We need politicians and businessmen, the catalysts of destruction, to quiver in fear of the people. Too many corpses, too much violence, too many victims. We need to demand joy, peace, and tranquility, but not without justice. The fight is on. Which side will we be on?