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Will Protest Help? Comment by Larry Ross, January 29, 2007
It's good to see this protest and typical of the New York Times to downgrade it by underestimating the numbers. The neocon administration has a plan to spread chaos and civil war in Iraq as a prelude to further aggression in their planned nuclear attack on Iran by April, according to reports 20,000 more US troops in Iraq is part of that plan. It's too bad that there seemed to be no mention of the plans for a war on Iran during the protest. That will please Bush and his neocons, who would prefer no mention or protest before they stage justifying events for their planned attack on Iran . Then it's likely to be a sudden 'bolt-out-of-the-blue' attack linked with a big media pro-war campaign justifying the Bush-neocon aggression. Nevertheless this popular protest is good because it may encourage others and embolden the very weak and vacillating Congress. Bush is defiant and says he'll continue to make war based on lies, while he is making up new lies to justify his next war. The formula seems to work well for the Bush Administration who are determined to carry on their plan even if it means world war III. Until Congress faces up to Bush's many lies, instead of going along with them, and acts to impeach Bush, his neocon regime will carry on their war-making agenda.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Editor's Note:The article below states that "tens of thousands" attended the March on Washington , Saturday. For many years now, the United States Park Police and other government agencies have refused to estimate crowd sizes.
Protest Focuses on Troop Increase for Iraq By Ian Urbina, The New York Times, January 28, 2007
The event drew demonstrators from across the country, and many said that in addition to taking their discontent to the streets they planned to press members of Congress to oppose the war. "When we voted it was a directive to bring our troops home now," said the Rev. Graylan S. Hagler of Plymouth Congregational United Church of Christ in Washington , referring to the November elections when Democrats won control of Congress. Demonstrators listened to speeches from a roster of politicians and entertainment figures including the Rev. Jesse Jackson; Representative Dennis J. Kucinich, Democrat of Ohio and a candidate for the presidency in 2008; and Representative Maxine Waters, Democrat of California . The actors Jane Fonda, Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins also addressed the crowd. See Also: VIDEO | Active-Duty Military Petition Congress to End War VIDEO | Bill Moyers: Life on the Plantation Video Interview | Ehren Watada's Parents Speak Out |
