Reply #7: Yes...protests did bring the war to an end...

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the draft energized most of the younger people of the nation into street protests, campus shutdowns, and actual violence(the burning of draft offices for example). The protests were finally taken up by the adult population at large in quantum jumps.

So, the answer is YES, the protests did force the administration and Congress to bring the war to a close. It was a very nasty period in our history.

Shrub jumped into the Iraq action because the protests were increasing to the point where his decision to go or not go was about to be taken from him. Another few months and it would have been impossible for him to take us into Iraq. No draft in that action however.