Were critics of WWI anti-American

 No, they were not anti-american. They just simply believed that the United States should not have been in World War 1. In which it was a war all the way across the Atlantic Ocean, in which men were led to battle! So most good get slaughtered. But the few that made it across the battlefield would be gassed...
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