From the Los Angeles Times, "About 100,000 antiwar protesters from around the country converged Saturday on the National Mall, galvanized by opposition to President Bush's plan to increase the number of troops in Iraq. Protests attended by several thousand people also were held in Los Angeles, San Francisco and other cities. But the demonstration in the nation's capital was among the biggest since the war began. Joining the Washington rally were several members of the House of Representatives and a few Hollywood liberal activists, including Jane Fonda, who said it was her first antiwar demonstration in 34 years."
Thanks to the Daily Kos for the link.
Jesus' General: "One of the most curious ideological contradictions to be produced (or perhaps merely revealed) by the Republican War in Iraq involves the expressed need to stifle liberty at home in order to spread liberty abroad. If you look around, you'll find this contradiction arising time after time in a variety of situations. The failure of all other stated reasons for invading and occupying Iraq has generally forced Republicans to rely almost exclusively on 'fighting terrorists' by spreading the values of liberty and democracy abroad. Many of these same Republicans, however, have never been good friends of liberty at home, and they see their war as a means for reinforcing their power over others' liberties in America."
Blogs for Bush: "You'd think with the number of lefties we get comments from on this blog that one of them would have tipped me off to the anti-war demonstration...it was a slow day here for me in Vegas and I could have live blogged it from C-Span coverage. For crying out loud: we had Sarandon, Fonda, Kucinich..You realise how hard it will be to track down transcripts of what they said? It isn't a matter of if they said stupid and outrageous things, but how often and how vehemently! I feel really let down by the left...which isn't a new thing at all."
Political Wire: "'In her first face-to-face meeting with voters since announcing for president, Hillary Clinton was asked about Iraq and ducked the question,' according to The Politico's Roger Simon. 'In the one-hour town meeting, Hillary did not mention Iraq a single time. She mentioned ethanol twice.' However, the pool report issued later from the Iowa Democratic Party Central Committee meeting, noted Clinton took on the question directly. She 'did her riff about how if we'd known then what we know now, there wouldn't have been a vote.' Said Clinton: 'I've taken responsibility for my vote. But there are no do-overs in life. I wish there were. I acted on the best judgment I had at the time. I said this was not a vote for preemptive war. The president took my vote, and others' votes, and basically misused the authority we gave him.'"
Colorado Confidential: "The number of Iraq War protesters in front of the Post Office in Carbondale was nothing in comparison to the hundreds of thousands that rallied in Washington DC. Yet, the local demonstrators were as enthusiastic about their anti-war sentiment as their Capitol counterparts."
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