Up thread in the comments, I see yet another person calling for the draft. Funny how only the left wants one.

Police Chief Charles H. Ramsey, noting that organizers had hoped to draw 100,000 people, said, "I think they probably hit that."

..thanks to mr. bush and his gang, we are now collectively responsible for the safety and well being of the iraqi people, whether we want to be or not. it would be immoral to abandon them at this point.

Go back to the archives in here and look at the tepid response to the impending war, nothing was being said.

I realized it would be overtaken by the screaming fringe race-baiting/anti-everything types.

then, it occurs to me that our president and, by extension, us, have put the iraqi people in a somewhat precarious position. by destroying the governmental infrastructure, we've left them open to the depradations of the bad guys.

In Washington, a few hundred people in a counter demonstration in support of Bush's Iraq policy

D.C. police and U.S. Park Police said there were no significant problems during the demonstrations and reported three arrests

I watched the CSpan coverage, and if that was 100,000 people, I'm the queen of Romania (with apologies to Dorothy Parker)

our president and, by extension, us, have put the iraqi people in a somewhat precarious position. by destroying the governmental infrastructure, we've left them open to the depradations of the bad guys. if we declare "victory" and leave, without having positioned them to defend themselves, it will be cambodia, under the khmer rouge, all over again, the infamous "killing fields".

Up thread in the comments, I see yet another person calling for the draft. Funny how only the left wants one.

Additionally all those beautiful homes, which were vacated will be torn down because the Palestinian leadership would never allow Palestinians to live in a place made unclean by a Jewish presence.

Additionally all those beautiful homes, which were vacated will be torn down because the Palestinian leadership would never allow Palestinians to live in a place made unclean by a Jewish presence.

As for publically financed campaigns, wow, that would be great, but you have to have a plural democracy to pass laws, and then you have to have to find some way to get the MONSTER to disgorge its control on power. How do you plan on doing that?

There is no other way to keep fifteen airbases than to PARTITION the country after a bloody civil war.

Fight for your voting rights. Getting the votes of all the people counted is the only path to populist (often cash-poor) campaigns.

Since the policy is civil war, it is RACISM, and the hatred produced by killing 130,000 Iraqis makes Bush's actions TREASON.

That’s not why they are demolishing them. They are doing it because there are too few houses and too many homeless Palestinians. So they are going to tear them down and build lots of smaller homes in order to house more people.

However, CNN was repeating reports of trivial matters, such as the rescue of dogs and other things.

Israel under Likud is a rogue state, just like the U.S. is under Bush.

if we could convince the other arab countries to unite for the purpose of protecting iraq

He [bush] will retire and be loved by the right and hated by the left. No matter what he does and what the left says, he will be the right's hero. Not because he deserves the title, but because he is their boy and can do no wrong. ... Cpinva is right, um, I mean correct, let's let the Republicans know what we think of them at the next election.

By Petula Dvorak Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, September 25, 2005; A01 Protest organizers estimated that 300,000 people participated, triple their original target. D.C. Police Chief Charles H. Ramsey, who walked the march route, said the protesters achieved the goal of 100,000 and probably exceeded it. Asked whether at least 150,000 showed up, the chief said, "That's as good a guess as any".

Protest organizers estimated that 300,000 people participated, triple their original target. D.C. Police Chief Charles H. Ramsey, who walked the march route, said the protesters achieved the goal of 100,000 and probably exceeded it. Asked whether at least 150,000 showed up, the chief said, "That's as good a guess as any".

D.C. Police Chief Charles H. Ramsey, who walked the march route, said the protesters achieved the goal of 100,000 and probably exceeded it.

..what substantive changes would you then advocate for the Left?

About 100 people had gathered before a stage set up on the eastern portion of the mall as the noon rally began. ... Earlier, Taylor said organizers were prepared for 20,000 people to attend the pro-military rally

To the west, near the Washington Monument, workers were taking down the stage used for Saturday's marathon anti-war protest that attracted 100,000 people according to police estimates.

The hardball game has to be played out in earnest, the messages have to be be loud, clear, constant, and direct. The grassroots slogging has to be done, and the left has to work harder at winning the next election than last time around.

B.B. King Blues On The Bayou (1998) You're On Top (Blues In 'G') Yes you're on the top now, baby But don't nothing stay the same Hey you're on the top now, baby But don't nothing stay the same Every now and then, baby Lady luck deals another hand You're calling me your pal now When I used to be your man Hey you're calling me your pal now, baby When I used to be your man You're flying real high now, baby Go on and raise your sand I realize now, baby Your kind of love ain't true Hey I realize now, baby Your kind of love won't do Well what should've been, baby Now has all fell through...

"Hey look! Demonstrations demanding that the Anerican troops leave Iraq! Quick! We must surrender!"

The Police have no reason for making the numbers smaller. They do have reasons for making them larger for the reason I stated.

the tet offensive of jan., 68, proved, beyond all doubt, that the u.s. intelligence services had no clue whatever. that was the true lesson of that engagement.

In a recent interview published in The Wall Street Journal, former colonel Bui Tin who served on the general staff of the North Vietnamese Army and received the unconditional surrender of South Vietnam on April 30, 1975 confirmed the American Tet 1968 military victory: "Our loses were staggering and a complete surprise. Giap later told me that Tet had been a military defeat, though we had gained the planned political advantages when Johnson agreed to negotiate and did not run for reelection.

Visits to Hanoi by Jane Fonda and former Attorney General Ramsey Clark and ministers gave us confidence that we should hold on in the face of battlefield reverses. We were elated when Jane Fonda, wearing a red Vietnamese dress, said at a press conference that she was ashamed of American actions in the war and would struggle along with us .... those people represented the conscience of America .... part of it's war- making capability, and we turning that power in our favor."

I tend to think the low morale of the troops came not from hippies protesting the war

but you have yet to explain how that aids the enemy, especially if it has nothing to do with morale. Does it boost the morale of the enemy?

Visits to Hanoi by Jane Fonda and former Attorney General Ramsey Clark and ministers gave us confidence that we should hold on in the face of battlefield reverses. We were elated when Jane Fonda, wearing a red Vietnamese dress, said at a press conference that she was ashamed of American actions in the war and would struggle along with us .... those people represented the conscience of America .... part of it's war- making capability, and we turning that power in our favor."

you prove, without exception, that you are a complete imbecile, incapable of analyzing facts, to come to a supportable conclusion.

giap was wrong. uncle walter was right

that's what caused the anti-war protests in this country:

....forget body counts. had that truly mattered to the north, we'd have won going away.

I (_____) do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God." (Title 10, US Code; Act of 5 May 1960 replacing the wording first adopted in 1789, with amendment effective 5 October 1962).

Everyone else is a liar. Pathetic, but how else is he to support the fascist regime but to limit our freedoms.

"It is emphatically a patriotic act for people to protest on behalf of whatever cause they see fit in our country. And if some differ with the President and call for the use of no force and take to the streets peacefully to protest that, that's the finest tradition of America. It's not new. It's been the way the American people communicate with their government for hundreds of years. We settle our differences in this country through elections and through peaceful protest."

And perhaps you can explain what you mean by saying that I support fascist regimes by limiting “our” freedoms?

Hung upon a string were the pictures of all our fallen soldiers: it was in alphabetical order, and although I was only helping to hold up the "B's", I could not see the beginning of the line, much less the end. Photographs of 1900 young men and women will stretch for blocks.

He said I have fought also in Bosnia, and so I know -- I can manage all the weapons, even chemicals, and so the Iraq is the starting point from the Islamic revolution in the world. So for us it is a new base. And he say, thank you, Mr. Bush, because you tried to kill us in Afghanistan and now we're everywhere. And he said, also in 60 countries. Maybe it's wrong. But he said, now we're in a state of confrontation. And at this time it was very, not funny, but amazing because it was at the time of the election, American election, where there was John Kerry and George Bush, you know, competing in the U.S. election. And I said to him, maybe you will vote to Kerry because he wants a withdrawal of the U.S. troops in Iraq. He said not at all. We want George Bush. I vote George Bush because with him it will be more confrontation, more violence and after one year, two years, we will be more stronger because we will be more experienced in the fighting against the Americans. So, you know, it is a kind of very deadly game between this guy, the extremist or terrorist, as they call them in America, and George Bush putting, you know, fire and – you know, oil on the fire. And so, this very, I think, dangerous and very gloomy for the future. Because now we are really in a kind of clash of civilization.

I try to focus on "truth." Try it sometimes.

"What I did today had to improve the morale of those who killed these young men?"

Jim... you know how to use a gun? Bullets are cheap, and plentiful, you can get lots of 'em almost anywhere if you are out of 'em...

“Rove never needed proof for his smear machine, why should I”

And then you can just go back to BUTT-LICKING your fellow racists”.

Jim... you know how to use a gun? Bullets are cheap, and plentiful, you can get lots of 'em almost anywhere if you are out of 'em...

“Rove never needed proof for his smear machine, why should I”

And then you can just go back to BUTT-LICKING your fellow racists”.

Jim is an old tart with a whore's taste in men.

Funny is watching his toes curl when he is hanging from his neck.

Ah the wars they will be fought again The holy dove She will be caught again bought and sold and bought again the dove is never free. Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That's how the light gets in.

Two Wrongs Make A Right

Not a single one of you have even tried to dispute my contention that demonstrations by anti-war activists in the US improve the morale of the terrorists our troops are fighting against.

Given that you sometimes appear rational, can you tell us why no bribes have ever been proven?

btw, this marks my 4th, and therefore of necessity, my last comment of the day. Uncontested rebuttals may now be safely submitted.

Back on topic; The anti-war protest may encourage the many factions of iraqis that want us to leave, tho w/o electricity or a free press it may be difficult for them to hear about it.

And yet, since 9/11, no terrorist attacks on US soil. Oddly quiet about that fact, aren't you?

Which came first, the Diebold or the bribe?

The Workers World Party was there, but so was International ANSWER. They had separate tables but are not really separate groups. The veil came off, as we noted in our release on Friday, when one of the leaders of the WWP and ANSWER posted an article urging "solidarity" with the "Iraqi fighters" and "resistance" killing American troops and innocent civilians in Iraq.

Not a single one of you have even tried to dispute my contention that demonstrations by anti-war activists in the US improve the morale of the terrorists our troops are fighting against.

You complain about my presenting the facts, but you can't dispute them.

You are not here for reasoned debate, you are here only to stroke your own worthless ego.

I don't have the time nor the inclination to take the time, anymore, to pay attention to your childish, foul, spewing.

Jim... you know how to use a gun? Bullets are cheap, and plentiful, you can get lots of 'em almost anywhere if you are out of 'em...

Visits to Hanoi by Jane Fonda and former Attorney General Ramsey Clark and ministers gave us confidence that we should hold on in the face of battlefield reverses.

gave us confidence that we should hold on in the face of battlefield reverses.

the anti-war protest may encourage the many factions of iraqis that want us to leave, tho w/o electricity or a free press it may be difficult for them to hear about it.

soccerdad... They are encouraged by the fact that the US indiscriminately kills civilians. Link please?

Call me names all you want.... Nothing I could call you would suffice at this point.... "Traitors" comes close tho...

Bottom line though, what's illegal?