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So-called '''anti-war''' movements typically disguise [[partisan]]ship as [[pacifism]].  

So-called '''anti-war''' movements typically disguise [[partisan]]ship as [[pacifism]].  

Since World War II, the anti-war movement in America has been almost exclusively partisan, saying that the United States was supporting the wrong side or was itself the "[[aggressor]]". In some extreme cases, adherents to the anti-war ideology have even gone as far as to falsely label anyone who even has a military at all, let alone go to war and/or have significant military buildup, as "fascists" in a false equivalence to the Nazis during World War II (usually also with the similarly false association of Nazism with the right wing and conservatism).

Since World War II, the anti-war movement in America has been almost exclusively partisan, saying that the United States was supporting the wrong side or was itself the "[[aggressor]]". In some extreme cases, adherents to the anti-war ideology have even gone as far as to falsely label anyone who even has a military at all, let alone go to war and/or have significant military buildup, as "fascists" in a false equivalence to the Nazis during World War II (usually also with the similarly false association of Nazism with the right wing and conservatism). In addition, owing to how liberals misdefine freedom several times and give a false choice between freedom and fascism, they also often imply that America going to war at all is a threat to freedom, even though events such as the founding of America during the American War of Independence had been accomplished via war, and often ignore that events such as the rise of Nazi Germany and the French Revolution had been the result of internal squabbling by like-minded left-wing political factions as well as trying to forcibly establish utopia, or that the Cold War had been started due to overt Communist aggression in Korea as well as Soviet expansionism, among others, or that the advancement of the welfare state was far closer to a threat to American freedom than going to war.<ref>http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=8371</ref>

Thus the term ''anti-war'' is often used specifically to indicate political opposition to America's war aims, notably during the [[Vietnam War]] and the invasion of Iraq. While reminiscent of [[pacifism]], the "anti-war" movement is not opposed to war ''per se'', but only America's involvement in it.

Thus the term ''anti-war'' is often used specifically to indicate political opposition to America's war aims, notably during the [[Vietnam War]] and the invasion of Iraq. While reminiscent of [[pacifism]], the "anti-war" movement is not opposed to war ''per se'', but only America's involvement in it.