The saddest thing is that only 189 were arrested. Should've been thousands.

"Violent protesters" often turn out to be agents provocateurs (that"s a fancy French way of saying undercover cops.) In other words, they are police, not protesters. Fortunately, there are experienced anti-war activists who understand the problem and how to deal with it. At the link below, you can find a video showing a silver-haired peace activist calmly instructing an undercover officer (wearing a bandana across his face) to "put the rock down."

http://infowars.net/articles/august2007/220807Provocateurs_SPP.htm

--Steve Watson, "SPP Agent Provocateur Cops Caught Red Handed Attempting to Incite Violence"
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I hope others will join me in making sure that the 189 arrested all get out and don't "disappear" in the next few weeks as so many other American prisoners have been. It is now illegal to speak out in America. Too many of us have been "disappeared" for protesting Bush/Cheney and their illegal regime and immoral war. How many more of us will be disappeared?

Peace Now! Only way to stop this invasion now is to take to the streets!

AGAIN WE HAVE SHOWN OUR POWER AS THE PEOPLE AND WE HAVE WON THIUS DAY, BUT AGAIN THEY WOULD WANT TO SILENT US BUT IT DIDN'T WORK.
THE GROUD THAT SHOWEDWERE IN NUMBERS THE RIGHT COULDN'T MATCH.

............BRING OUR TROOPS HOME..............

.............IMPEACH BUSH.....................

Great American Patriot Heros! Thank You!
Stop the Invasion!

I must agree with Mr. Hager. Bush has changed this country, and not for the better. The America we have under this tyrant is not the America I have loved my entire life. I don't recognize America. I see homophobia, hatred, bigotry, discrimination based on sex, infiltration of religion into politics, a security system which has been laid to ruin, and an illegal war which has made us one of the most hated countries in the world. When will Congress do their job and impeach these guys?

Not until WE either bring the protest to the door step of all of msm headquarters or stop protesting in the designated protest zones will they take us serious. This will get nasty. Protest are growing at a faster rate then then they did in the late 60s and early 70s.

We had been in Nam since 59. the protest didn't really get big until 1968 and 69. There were protest in the millions the same year the troops were deployed to Irag.

This will get very nasty.

ghostsinthemachine, thank you for the links. i am quite sure that these deaths are no accident. we all need to be aware of the black operations our government conducts. i find it difficult to believe that all of these good men died in car crashes or other mysterious circumstances. i do believe however, that we the people are in some deep shit.

i am quite upset that huffpost didn't give much coverage to the march on washington. it seems to me that it has ignored the story as bad as any of the news media. shame on you.

Once again the Anti-War Protestors are being attacked by neo-con democrats. The same neo-con democrats who attacked us when we tried to stop the Iraq war a year before it was started.

The jew democrats, as in Al From and the Clintonites cannot stop themselves from calling us "freaks","hippies", "disgraceful", etc., because "it looks bad" they (jew) say.

The Democratic Party is not any different than the Republican Party, except the Republicans are more honest. There were just as many democratic voters who supported George Bush revenge for jews Iraq war, as Republicans.

And now, since the democrats as usual, do not have a platform to run on for 2008, they are trying to hijack the Anti-War Movement and quiet it down. Because it makes their candidate the warmongering racist Hillary Clinton look like the lying, racist, warmonger she is.

I pray to God that the Republicans win, and keep winning. And the weak, spineless, jew democratic party can kiss my liberal, Anti-War behind.

Peace out!

Whoops, I posted this on the wrong article....this is better!

I just now got home from DC.

The march went great until we came upon the vile Gathering Eagles group - what a bunch of evil people. Some of us tried in vain to engage them but they were more interested in screaming obscenities at us. They were lined up behind barricades along the end of the route by the Capital Building (funny how they are willing to stand there and shout but not large enough to get their own "Support the Bloodshed" march).

One incident that didn't get NYT's attention was at the end of the march while the Iraqi war veterans went to the steps of Congress for their "die-in" one of the Gathering Eagles (with several other A-holes following behind) grabbed a picture of a fallen soldier off of a casket that was being wheeled by the parents of the soldier - they were part of the march. The father yelled at the A-hole but he just kept walking and the father tackled the guy to get it back when the A-hole's friends started beating the father. It got ugly but it was near the Port-A-Johns and hundreds of people were milling around and they managed to surround them until the cops showed up.

Otherwise the march was magnificent - so many people from all over the world coming together on the most perfect day of sunshine and life saving cool breezes.

On a personal note my son and myself met Cindy Sheehan and I got a picture with her. It was like meeting a rock star except that she was genuinely nice - she hugged the stuffings out of me.

I hope those in the NY area can make the next protest at the UN on September 25, 2007 when Bush goes there to beg for permission to bomb Iran - we have to keep up the pressure, change is only a heartbeat and a pacemaker away!

PEACE & LOVE TO ALL!

Talk about protests. HuffPost has closed all discussion/posts about O.J. Simpson's arrest. It's censorship plain and simple. What is HuffPost afraid of? This isn't the first time this has happened either. I suppose free speech is limited at HuffPost to just a few subjects.

"What troubles me, the thing that is so dismaying, is they don"t realize the big picture," said John Aldins, 54, who came from Media, Pa., with his wife, Karen, and daughter, Rachel, to show their support for the troops. The Aldins have three other children serving in the military. Rachel Aldins will join the Army in the fall to serve as a nurse.

"It"s not just Iraq, it"s the whole Middle East," Mr. Aldins said. "It"s not a red, blue or pink issue. It"s an all-of-us issue."

What does this nonsense mean? Were these the comments of a pro-war or anti-war demonstrator?
I'm certain that every anti Iraq war protester I know feels that indeed they ARE supporting the troops by demanding they not be employed in a fruitless enterprise that does not address the issue of the certain deadly trouble that rises against us in the middle east. This romp in Iraq doesn't diffuse that one whit. There is considerable evidence that suggest that it escalates the danger to all of us and certain proof it's killing our brave young and countless numbers of innocent Iraqis.
Let's send Cheney and Bush to meet Osama bin Laden and his top deputy to duke it out mano a mano.
If nothing else, the world would be rid of four fools with wrong headed tunnel vision.

It is the soldier, not the reporter,
who has given us freedom of the press.
It is the soldier, not the poet,
who has given us freedom of speech.
It is the soldier, not the campus organizer,
who has given us the freedom to demonstrate.
It is the soldier, not the lawyer,
who has given us the right to a fair trial.
It is the soldier,
who salutes the flag,
who serves under the flag,
and whose coffin is draped by the flag,
who allows the protester to burn the flag.