Look, I don't hate America, but I do hate the corporations that have made it an unpleasant place to be. Companies like Fluor and Halliburton, currently serving up relatively little in Iraq for billions of dollars, are prime movers in this world. Arguably, an Iraq war would have never taken place if there were no private-sector investors in the project.
So what does the logic of protest tell us? Boycott. Boycott everything that has the name Fluor or Halliburton or Parsons, etc. associated with it.
Why? Because now more than ever the consumer is the shriveled gossamer thread holding the whole freaking system up. In spite of the obvious abuse consumer culture has wreaked on us, it affords us a power that could potentially end a war.
Boycott. Everything that has to do with any company in Iraq.
See, the Iraq war is nothing if not a private enterprise for which many many billions of taxpayer dollars are flowing directly into the hands of CEOs and contractors. But these people also have business before town councils, they have business before school boards. You want to end this war, choke out the life blood of the companies whose government contracts sustain them. The fact that so many of them rely on government contracts renders them even more vulnerable. Make our local and state politicians, people who are as appaled as we are, divest from these companies and watch the Iraq war disappear.
Boycott, boycott, boycott. Spread the word. I don't care if it means buying a different brand of diaper. If a company is associated in any way with the Iraq war, we need to end our relationship with them as consumers. It's quite literally the only way to prematurely abort this cockeyed mission.