Where Are the Anti-War Protestors

HOLLYWOOD - MARCH 21: Anti-war demonstrators carry model coffins in a protest march on Hollywood Boulevard to mark the sixth anniversary of the Iraq war ground invasion on March 21, 2009 in Hollywood, California.

Where Did All the Anti-War Protestors Go? -- John Stossel, FOX News

The anti-war movement was all over the news before President Obama was elected. But apparently they weren’t really anti-war ... they were just anti-President Bush. Two college professors just released a study of national protests between 2007 and 2009. What did they find?

… After January 2007, the attendance at antiwar rallies [measured in] roughly the tens of thousands, or thousands, through the end of 2008.

… After the election of Barack Obama as president, the order of magnitude of antiwar protests dropped [...] Organizers were hard pressed to stage a rally with participation in the thousands, or even in the hundreds. For example, we counted exactly 107 participants at a Chicago rally on October 7, 2009.

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My Comment: John Stossel answers his own question in the first paragraph ....

..... But apparently they weren’t really anti-war ... they were just anti-President Bush. ....

Indeed.

My prediction .... if President Obama is defeated in 2012 and the wars are continuing in Afghanistan and elsewhere under a Republican President .... expect the anti-war protestors returning.