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  2. List of anti-war organizations - Wikipedia

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    In order to facilitate organized, determined, and principled opposition to the wars, people have often founded anti-war organizations. These groups range from temporary coalitions which address one war or pending war, to more permanent structured organizations which work to end the concept of war and the factors which lead to large-scale destructive conflicts.

  3. Flag of Iraq - Wikipedia

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    Use: State and war flag, national ensign: Proportion: 2:3: Adopted: 31 July 1963; 61 years ago () (original version) 22 January 2008; 16 years ago () [1] (current version) Design: A horizontal tricolour of red, white, and black, charged with the takbīr in green Kufic script, centered on the white stripe.

  4. Protests against the Iraq War - Wikipedia

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    On September 24, Tony Blair released a document describing Britain's case for war in Iraq. Three days later, an anti-war rally in London drew a crowd of at least 150,000. [11] On September 29, roughly 5,000 anti-war protesters converged on Washington, D.C., on the day after an anti-International Monetary Fund protest. [12]

  5. Peace flag - Wikipedia

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    White-bordered US flag. Banner reads "Peace to All Nations". The white flag is recognized in most of the world as a flag of surrender, truce or ceasefire. The first mention of a white flag used in this context is made during the Eastern Han dynasty (AD 25–220). A white flag was also used by the anti-war movement during the US Civil War in ...

  6. Anti-war movement - Wikipedia

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    The American country music band Dixie Chicks opposition to the war caused many radio stations to stop playing their records, but who were supported in their anti-war stance by the equally anti-war country music legend Merle Haggard, who in the summer of 2003 released a song critical of US media coverage of the Iraq War. Anti-war groups ...

  7. Post–September 11 anti-war movement - Wikipedia

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    Drawing on that party's tight organization, ANSWER attracted an estimated 8,000 people to their first major action, an "Anti-War, Anti-Racist" rally and march in Washington, D.C., primarily in protest of the then impending invasion of Afghanistan. This rally occurred on September 29, 2001, a mere 18 days after the September 11 attacks.

  8. Category:American anti–Iraq War activists - Wikipedia

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    A) Believe that the Iraq War was illegal from the beginning; or; B) Believe that the Iraq War is being waged imprudently and have become publicly known as critics of the war or the justifications used to launch it. American anti-war activists are not to be mixed up with critics of Iraq policy; that is, people who have made statements against ...

  9. Iraq War - Wikipedia

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    The Iraq War (Arabic: حرب العراق, romanized: ḥarb al-ʿirāq), also referred to as the Second Gulf War, [84] [85] was a prolonged conflict in Iraq lasting from 2003 to 2011. It began with the invasion by a United States-led coalition , which resulted in the overthrow of the Ba'athist government of Saddam Hussein .