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Harry Turtledove wrote a thinly-veiled allegory about the Iraq War and the "cowardly" liberals who opposed it entitled "News from the Front", which details the antiwar movement in the US during the Second World War. Obviously quite a bit of it is unlikely (I highly doubt celebrities would travel to Germany and Japan to act as human shields and that newspapers would publish top-secret military plans). Despite the story's implausibilities, is a large-scale movement (comparable to the one against the war in Vietnam) possible? Could there be large numbers of desertions, attacks on military installations, strikes etc, etc.?

I recall Howard Zinn in A People's History reporting a lukewarm reception to the war among blacks, who saw their plight as being similar to that of the Jews of the Reich. (for example Malcolm X told the draft board that he wanted to steal guns and shoot crackers in the South). Also many more soldiers requested conscientious objector status than in WW1. So it would appear that support wasn't completely unanimous.
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