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Bill Moyers has an essay on the way pro war types have hijacked the flag for their anti-democratic goals:

The online comic Diesel Sweeties has what has to be the best flag shirt ever, which, in many ways, represents why I continue to voice my opposition to the war on Iraq. My sister is studying in Berlin, a hotbed of anti-war sentiment, and I'm mulling over whether to get one of these shirts for her.

Readers have been writing into The Austin American-Statesman and UT-Austin's Daily Texan arguing that, now that now the the war has begun, activists are hurting the soldiers in Iraq by voicing their opposition. The protests did not spring up after the bombs were falling: in fact, the anti-war movement was larger than the movement at the height of the Vietnam conflict before the bombs started falling. If it is the case that protests hurt soldiers on the battlefield, these people should hold President Bush responsible for starting a war much of the country doesn't believe in.