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The
Iraq war started with overwhelming
support in the U.S., in an atmosphere that brooked little
dissent. Today, it splits the nation into irreconcilable camps:
Americans are nearly
evenly split on the question of whether or not it was
a good idea to invade and occupy a country that posed no threat
to us and had never attacked the U.S.
It
was a long, hard slog rolling back the rising tide of pro-war
sentiment, but once the facts started to get out there – Iraq
had no
"weapons of mass destruction," no links to the 9/11
hijackers, no nukes and no means to make them – Americans
began to wake up. As the arguments made by the antiwar movement
from the beginning were confirmed, one by one, the tide of
public opinion began to turn.
Antiwar.com
can take some credit for that.
They
don't call us the 37th
most popular English-language news site on the Internet
for nothing. Sure, we're still peanuts compared to the major
news organizations. But one thing we do have and that is an
audience: and it is growing by leaps and bounds.
What's
important about this rather amazing performance is not that
we're stars (although Justin Raimondo thinks he is!),
but that it forces the War Party to operate within certain
constraints. Because once they begin circulating their latest
lie, it isn't long before Antiwar.com broadcasts the debunking
around the globe.
They
can't get away with it anymore – and they won't. Not as long
as we're around. And that depends entirely on you. We depend
on your contributions to survive, on a mere mini-fraction
of what the War Party spends – but it's all we need to keep
getting out the truth. So far, you've been very generous,
with 621 of you contributing over $26,000 in three days. We
are half-way there – we can't stop pleading until we
meet our goal of $50,000 for this quarter.
So
go here and contribute now – because we're fighting for the
future.
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