http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/07/17/MN.DTLWhen streets in San Francisco and elsewhere swelled with anti-war demonstrators last winter, activists predicted that President Bush would feel the wrath as Americans marched into the voting booth in 2004.
Those promises, however, sounded hollow as mass demonstrations dwindled after the war started. The suburbanites and first-time marchers whom activist leaders touted as the base of a new movement retreated to the apolitical cocoon of the carpool, and the rest splintered back into their interest groups.
Now, with hostilities lingering in Iraq, no weapons of mass destruction having been found, Bush's approval rating dropping and the presidential election season fast approaching, anti-war leaders are trying to rekindle the movement's embers with an unofficial mantra: "We were right."
From an ad featuring a 1983 photo of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld shaking hands with Saddam Hussein that appeared last week on BART, to a TV commercial that began airing in major markets, some peace movement coalitions are trying to reunite their diverse followers by appealing to one of the few things they have in common -- their loathing of the Bush administration.
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