I led the anti-war movement against Bush 11 years ago. Hillary Clinton is hardly better.

Since Bush has left office (in the orderly and lawful way, not in handcuffs) and we’re almost through with the two-terms of the current War President, I almost feel sorry for Bush. (Almost, I said). Where’s the outcry against Obama’s wars? The occupy movement did not address these issues. I have tried to hold three protest camps since Obama has been president. Instead of thousands of people, there were tens in attendance.

The current POTUS electoral circus we find ourselves in is interesting only for the fact that this is truly the weirdest election I have ever witnessed in my lifetime. While Donald Trump’s rhetoric is being scrutinized and analyzed, Hillary Clinton’s actual record of support for war, war, and more war, has been sanitized. The “super-star” of 2016, Bernie Sanders, had a very weak foreign policy position, too. This sadly tells me that my fellow Americans’ compassion for others is practically non-existent.

I would hate to think the only thing Camp Casey accomplished was getting the left-wing of the war party back in political power. I think we did re-shape the dialogue and perceptions of war. With many vets and other family members joining me that summer, people in the US were seeing, for the first time this generation, active family opposition to the institutions that steal our young people to kill and die in the wars for profit of today’s Military Industrial Complex.