And yet, because he was doing so to advance the cause of the anti-war movement, groups like the ACLU worked to discredit his prosecution.
But I don't think he's that worried that he himself will overpower, (unintelligible) enough other people in that movement that war should be part of it as well.
The Geneva Conventions, for instance, are shown coming about when one branch of the peace movement stopped trying to abolish war, and worked with governments to humanise the way that wars were fought.
The British contingent in Afghanistan is among the most active NATO units in the nearly seven-year-old war with the Taliban, the Islamic movement that ruled most of Afghanistan before its al Qaeda allies attacked New York and Washington in 2001.
Then you have the German immigrants who become targets of the Prohibition war because that links arms with the anti-war movement in the teens.
Many in the German minority had joined the Fascist movement, celebrated when the war began, and taken advantage of their privileged status during the years of occupation.
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Its leaders could not agree whether to support or condemn the Patriot Act, whether to support or criticise the new Department of Homeland Security, whether to encourage or restrain the movement to war.
However this debate shapes up, I can't help feeling that Tony Blair will find that, like Harold Wilson before him, his stance towards an American war will make him a figure of hatred among a significant proportion of the Labour movement who will never forget and may never forgive.
Mr. JONATHAN LANDAY (Knight-Ridder): These attacks are continuations of the guerrilla-style war being waged by the Taliban, the radical Islamic movement that was swept from power here by the US-led intervention in 2001.
Just one movement, that of the Russian avant-garde, after it was cut off from Europe by war and revolution, achieved something like collective genius.
The other point which needs to be made is that this "war against corruption" - exaggerated by many as India's second war of independence and similar hyperbole - is being seen by many as the high noon of Indian activism and civil society movement.
But a whole variety of factors - the call-up of certain types of reservists, the chartering of commercial shipping, the reported movement of pre-positioned equipment both to and within the Gulf region - all suggests that if war comes, it could begin with far fewer signs of obvious preparation than many people have argued.
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