Antiwar Fervor Fills the Streets

[brettdale]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/24/AR2005092401701_pf.html

Antiwar Fervor Fills the Streets

Tens of thousands of people packed downtown Washington yesterday and marched past the White House in the largest show of antiwar sentiment in the nation's capital since the conflict in Iraq began.

The demonstration drew grandmothers in wheelchairs and babies in strollers, military veterans in fatigues and protest veterans in tie-dye. It was the first time in a decade that protest groups had a permit to march in front of the executive mansion, and, even though President Bush was not there, the setting seemed to electrify the crowd.

Signs, T-shirts, slogans and speeches outlined the cost of the Iraq conflict in human as well as economic terms. They memorialized dead U.S. troops and Iraqis, and contrasted the price of war with the price of recovery for areas battered by hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Riffs on Vietnam-era protests were plentiful, with messages declaring, "Make Levees, Not War," "I never thought I'd miss Nixon" and "Iraq is Arabic for Vietnam." Many in the crowd had protested in the 1960s; others weren't even born during those tumultuous years.

[knowbody0]

1. add to that number

the rallies in each individual state, and in Great Britain. each echoing the main rally in DC. each rally envigorating the movement to make right what this administration has destroyed. the lack of media coverage validates our attacks on MSM