We weren't very successful. They had a LOT of support and powerful political machinery behind them. And we had none of that. As you may have noticed, from the many posts we've made here about the torture report - we tried desperately to stop them. We failed. I suppose you could consider learning from our mistakes.

Maybe do the opposite?

Build a more effective, more ruthless machine of your own? It's hard. Especially when you have all the establishment powers against you. Plus the media, which ignored most of us, and frankly still does. There were millions of us all over the world, on every continent including Antarctica. We had the freakin' POPE on our side and it still didn't work. JP2 sat there with dubya and told him flat-out - "if you go into Iraq, you go without God." THAT didn't stop him.