By MIKE MARQUSEE, 3/17/06, CounterPunch.org
Three years ago, at one of the huge
demonstrations that preceded the invasion of Iraq, I ran into
a 16-year-old friend, visibly excited by the size of the crowd
and the sense of common purpose. “They can’t go to war now,
can they?” he said, “Not after this … ” Well,
they did, and three years later the fears of the protesters have
been born out many times over. Yet the size of the protests has
diminished. [read more]