Iraq War protesters take to DC streets

Hey, we don't want China to hog all the headlines about quashing protests against injustice. We'll show 'em.

you outta win a pulitzer for this kind of journalism... what a bunch of winners!!!!

The same 50 rent-a-protester you see at all the rallies,thoughtfully posing in front of the tv cameras.

But the Swamp left out the best photo: the photo of the protestors carrying a large banner that proclaims, "5 Years To Many".

Yes, their spelling is about as good as their politics.

Since we're talking about Iraq I think it would be a good time to listen to what John McCain has to say about it, afterall, he's the self-proclaimed. war "expert".

In comments to reporters in Jordan, John McCain demonstrated that he does not understand even the most basic of facts about his signature issue, the Iraq War.

From the Washington Post:

Sen. John McCain, traveling in the Middle East to promote his foreign policy expertise, misidentified in remarks Tuesday which broad category of Iraqi extremists are allegedly receiving support from Iran.

He said several times that Iran, a predominately Shiite country, was supplying the mostly Sunni militant group, al-Qaeda...

McCain said he and two Senate colleagues traveling with him continue to be concerned about Iranian operatives "taking al-Qaeda into Iran, training them and sending them back."

Pressed to elaborate, McCain said it was "common knowledge and has been reported in the media that al-Qaeda is going back into Iran and receiving training and are coming back into Iraq from Iran, that's well known. And it's unfortunate." A few moments later, Sen. Joseph Lieberman, standing just behind McCain, stepped forward and whispered in the presidential candidate's ear. McCain then said: "I'm sorry, the Iranians are training extremists, not al-Qaeda."
Al Qaeda in Iraq is of course entirely dominated by Sunni extremists who view all Shiites as heretics. The rise of Al Qaeda in Iraq and everything it has done there has been shaped by it's contempt for Shiites. The course of the insurgency, down to and including the "Sunni Awakening", has reflected that fanatical hostility that Al Qaeda brought to bear inside Iraq. Iranian involvement in financing and supporting Shiite militias in Iraq came partly in reaction to the rise of Al Qaeda in Iraq.
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/03/18/a_mccain_gaffe_in_jordan.html

This isn't just a minor slip. This betrays a profound lack of foreign policy expertise, a shallowness so extreme that if the remark had been made by Barack Obama, say, it would have called into question his viability as a presidential candidate.

So you should expect the "serious" thinkers of the traditional media to dismiss the gaffe as 'trivial'. We are not allowed even to consider the possibility that John McCain is a foreign policy lightweight...not with all the pchychopath Neocon foreign policy advisers he's assembled.
http://thinkprogress.org/wonkroom/2008/03/17/mccain-advisers/

McCain made the same assertion last night on Hugh Hewitt's program.
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/18/mccain-iran-al-qaeda/

The troops genuinely appreciate the loyalty and support of the citizens. Thank you to those that support our vital mission to rebuild and care for the Iraqi people. We wont let you down.

Oo rah!

The same 50 rent-a-protester you see at all the rallies...

...Yes, their spelling is about as good as their politics.

Posted by: Bruce | March 19, 2008 12:54 PM

Bruce,
You suck just as bad. Technically you misspelled also. It should be 50 rent-a-protesterS. There's more than 1 protester so you need to make it plural you tool.

Maybe he's right. Some al-Q has some iR connections who are willing to put aside their differences to work together on defeating the US before moving on to each other. It would be in the interest of a few iR radicals to invest in al-Q to keep the US bogged down in IRAQ.

Leatherneck-
I'm with you, and certainly as far as my support for the troops goes. What I do not understand, as I look out my office window at traffic blockades and police barricades on Vermont and "L" streets, is how these protesters' rights have now trumped the hundreds of thousands of DC workers who will not be getting home tonight. Why is that fair?

As a Nam Vet I support the troops. I to once believed this country was the salvation of the world, that democracy should reign everywhere. As I grow older I realize how corporate greed has pre-packaged democracy for nothing more than profit.
Even while I support the troops I can not support our government and it's policies any longer. I salute the protesters for standing up.
I wear my old Army uniform to every war protest I attend. Those of us who have seen, smelled and tasted war need to tell our tales and NO you can't imagine it.

This is only the beginning. These protests are going to get uglier and uglier until the war ends.The american people WILL rise up against this unjust war.