I dont get it.. why are some people protesting the war?

I think its not just the war, but the Federation exploiting the public's fears to get away with a lot of ethically questionable stuff and to control the populace better. As heroic as the Mobile Infantry are, their high command in the Federation are horribly corrupt.

I must say I completely agree with the OP here. After all, in the story depicted in the series, despite the "nazi-like" governing regime of the Federation, the bugs did "strike" first, killed millions of non-military humans on Earth and made their intentions of wiping out mankind quite clear.
Therefor, given that the war engulfs all of mankind which probably means that there is a permanent martial law that humans are subject to, protesting against the war is a crime against humanity in itself. The leaders of such deviant movements are logically singled out and executed, completely in accordance with moral principles within the series' universe, irregardless of high level corruption,politics,bureaucracy and what not.

I actually viewed the protesters as modern peace protesters. On and before 9/11, Islamic terrorists made their intentions quite clear to destroy the west, and killed thousands of people in different terrorist attacks. When the U.S and NATO attacked the "bugs" there were people protesting war against people that wanted to kill us. Terrorists=Bugs, or that's how I saw it.

Some people realized the bugs are on the other side of the GALAXY in a small area, minding their own business. Humans went to war with the bugs in order to try and take over the bug planets.

This is satire. The bugs are symbolic of the terrorists. Some people do not think that the U.S. should be involved in a war in Iraq and Afghanistan. The great thing about the U.S. is that if they want to protest, they have that right. The prevailing belief is that terrorists want to kill all Americans. Maybe they do. The bugs want to exterminate humanity (the American way of life). I don't know how Paul Verhoven feels about the war against terrorism but I do know that he isn't originally from the U.S. Were I to guess from the Starship Trooper movies, I'd say that he is against the war and this is his way of protesting, by making the American gov't look fascist and corrupt and filling our heads with propoganda. Regardless of the satire and the way that Verhoven may or may not feel, I enjoy the movies as a guilty pleasure. By the way, does anyone else equate Iraq with Arachnids (i-rack-nid), or is it just me?

I know this is an old thread... but yeah that's what's killing me with the movie. Got up to the point where they shut hte power in the base off.

I get the filmmakers are trying to draw parallels with real life war protesters but here it doesn't work. it would be like saying war protestors in the UK were right, and while there were conciousness objectors and people obviously didn't want there to be a war I don't think most people were looking at British troops and spitting on them when it was German bombings hitting them

If the producers wanted to make an anti war film, fine, whatever, but to make a movie where alien bugs are trying to wipe out mankind into 'man is bad and war is evil' is nuts, because mankind gets wiped out, and it's not like the bugs are less aggresive then humans.

There will always be protesters. There were protesters to World War I and II, there will be protesters to a war against bugs trying to eliminate the human race. It's inevitable that not everyone will agree that war is the answer or that we should even continue as a species.

The fact is people are idiots, someone can go out and murder and rape 100 children and if we try to execute them people will not only protest his execution but try to save him too. And yet these same people are fine with killing unborn children, some people are just *beep* up.