The San Francisco Chronicle
APRIL 29, 2003, TUESDAY, FINAL EDITION
SOURCE: Chronicle Staff Writer
BYLINE: Robert Collier

They lost the fight to stop the war, and a U.S. administration they loathe has taken power as Iraq’s new provisional ruler. Now, peace activists from the United States and Europe who came to Iraq to resist the war are divided over what to do next.

Some have thrown up their hands and left Iraq, saying the country is a lost cause. Others have stayed and switched from anti-war activism to pragmatic reform, helping start newspapers and working with the U.S. military to provide compensation to civilian victims of the war.