The crowd gathers at Hollywood and Vine in front of the world famous Frolic Room.

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DU JoeFree's New and Improved Mad King George in the Background

They brighten every L.A event !

With Joe Free, his companions, and Mad King Shrub

The Crowd Gathers at the end of the march in front of the stage.

acknowledging the Fourth Reich - George Bushler and his Fascists Gang of War Criminals

Despite a ful scale effort by the right to have a significant counter-protest, only about a dozen of these losers showed up. They were carrying signs in support of Saddam, Communism, and against the war. They thought that was funny. The cops kept them corraled like the sheep they are, and to prevent them from creating trouble.

The Thousand of Protestors as seen from the top of a commercial building

Another Pic of the Massive Crowd

What a great rally! What great pictures.
It has been amazing. I watched all the network morning news show and there was not one mention of the protests. One show that had Rumsfield on it did mention the 2nd anniversary of the war. The 2nd anniversary of the troops dying, and the killing of thousands of innocent lives. The networks can’t even seem to honor the troops who have died. Instead we get to see Congress hold a hearing on steroid use, and debate on a bill to keep a woman alive who is in a vegetative state. Bush is rushing back to D.C. to make sure this one woman is not let to die…because it is the moral thing to do. Yet the news ignores how many lives have been lost in Iraq and Afghanistan. How many kids are starving right now? How many people will die in the US this week because they can’t afford to go to the hospital?

As I click through each city on the Indymedia site, I see hundreds and in some cities thousands who took to the street. I see incredible signs and street theater. Many events had Iraq Vets and family members speaking out against this war. Yet, what is on the news? Terri and whether or not they will replace her feeding tube. One severally brain damaged life vs. hundreds of thousands.

I hope many people plan to call and write the networks and the next rally/march is held in front of the TV, radio, and newspaper buildings/offices.

Notice that the pro-war types were a bunch of out of shape white guys.

the protest warriors suck.. yes...

But if you read some of there signs they tell the truth (like the communism one... seeing as how answer is givin most of its money from the RCP [revolutionary communist party].... yay! bob avakian.... *lame*)

"But if you read some of there signs they tell the truth (like the communism one"

You mean those wars in Central America, Korea & Vietnam? Yeah, those were some ragin' successes huh?

"Notice that the pro-war types were a bunch of out of shape white guys."

hey..cool it...I'M an out-of-shape white guy...

%^D

The Communist murdered 180 million of its citizens and all you passivist protested in support of ANSWER who is sponsored by the Communist Party of America. I am proud to be a Republican which means I believe in capitalism and freedom framed in Democracy. We don't look at gender or race we judge a person by his character and ability. We are conservative and in power which means we are a majority. The few of us there were being protected by the police from the yellow commies that profess in peace and love and wanted to beat us up and tear down our signs. All of you guys are just a bunch of "Useful Idiots" (google the term) being told what to do and being led around like sheep dogs by ANSWER. What I do know is that we must fight our enemies and kill them before they kill us. Don't worry we want to protect you too, after all you are like mentally disabled children.... Who said Republicans are not compassionate? Like we did when we fought the civil war we just freed 50 million people in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Funny, the police were keeping YOU from getting to the anti-protestors, they were free to come in and out, they were being protected from you.

Survey police and firemen and ask them their political affiliation. Survey the military and you will find what party the majority belong to.

Do you use words like logic, reason, rational thought, objective reality? If you do then you may be or you are a Republican.... Its OK.

We are a minority in LA and have been treated like your old KKK friends used to treat Blacks. If you guys could you would have us drink from separate water fountains. Does bigot ring a bell in your soul? Oh I forgot you are from the godless society you have no soul.

no no no i was calling whoever wrote the PW caption is a liar, the PWs were being protected from the "tolerant" hippies

God i love the fact that the right has REAL men and not a mob of stinking, white, rebel-without-a-clue hippie fuckwits.

"Another Pic of the Massive Crowd"

The "massive crowd" you speak of was about 1500. That's an estimation from your beloved Amy Goodman so you could probably even knock it back a bit and be safe.

1500 doesn't even scratch the surface of the protest as hobby contingent in LA.

Face it. Even your own people are bored and tired of these silly get togethers.

And most people simply aren't against the war.

Time to find a new hobby.

It's good to see a bit of sanity here for a change.

These protesters are about as typical of American Opinion as are the Hare Krishnas or the KKK. They're very much out on the margins of society and don't get any respect from mainstream Americans because they don't deserve any.

We always think the way you think.
And thank you for the different posts.
You are in the majoriy.

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The funny thing is that I asked, on film, some protestors if we should help other countries. The answer I recieved was, "No because other countries are sovereign" Then I asked why don't these people protest against an ACTUAL problem like the 27 million slaves that live in countries like Nigeria, Gabon, Mauretania, Sudan and including the sex slaves of Southeast Asia and Eastern Europe. One dude said, "because that is over there, and Bush is over here." When I asked if the people protesting Bush would join me in a protest asking Bush to work to end slavery worldwide he said, "No, probably not." So basically these people wanted to say a) they hate Bush, and b) we should let anarchy ensue in Iraq. Other than that they don't care about anything or anyone and just want communism.

The picture above is of a guy from Germany that said, "I like your sign, war saved my country." If these protestors had there way all Europe would be speaking German and there would be no such thing as a jew. But at least they would be sovereign right? Thank God for American resolve to ignore these people and do what is right. The sign reads: WAR HAS NEVER SOLVED ANYTHING except for slaver, genocide, Nazism, communism, imperialsim and soon terrorism.

Me and my friends from school were excited about going to this march, but after seeing the way the protestors interacted with the police, counter-protestors, and the general public in such a childish way, I completely turned me off from ever going again. The way our protestors acted towards the counter-protestors did nothing but hurt us as they were calm and confident and we took childish jabs at them and got angry.

If you lie down with dogs you get up with fleas.

These are the Protest Warriors you idiot. They don't support Communism and Saddam. Read the signs. It is called satire.

What a loser.

I always used to make fun of Bush Admirer until it became clear he is the proverbial burr under the saddle blanket, begging someone to take the time out of their precious life span to stop the horse, remove the saddle, the blanket and with a pair of tweezers, crush his head. Then you have to get back on the road. Sigh.

nasty little boy you soiled your hand. Wash it.

Austin Bay spent time in Iraq as an active-duty Army officer and saw firsthand the daily process that created success but rarely made the headlines. This article presents an accurate picture of the conflict in Iraq. It’s laughable to see such sadly misinformed protesters marching around and making fools of themselves because they don’t know squat about Iraq. They get their, ahem, news from non-credible sources like Amy Goodman (really just a propagandist passing out far left--wing fantasies). Austin Bay brings a bit of sobriety to these pages.
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Chapter and verse prove why we're winning in Iraq By AUSTIN BAY


It was a very early morning in July 2004, and after making myself a steamer-sized cup of hot tea at my desk in Corps Plans, I walked into the coalition military's Joint Operations Center in Al Faw Palace, Baghdad.

Paul Bremer and the Coalition Provisional Authority had left Baghdad a couple of weeks earlier, and Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's interim Iraqi government was -- as the bad pun went -- an interim rocky government. But Allawi's government not only had popular support, it had spine. Day by day, Allawi emerged as a smart, adaptive and courageous leader. The Allawi government was rapidly building a democratic Iraqi future.

I took a seat in the back of the eight-tiered amphitheater. A huge plasma screen draped the JOC's front wall, like a movie theater screen divided into ceiling-high panels capable of displaying multiple computer projections. A viewer could visually hopscotch from news to weather to war. In the upper right-hand corner of one panel, Fox News flickered silently -- and for the record, occasionally CNN or Al Jazeera would flicker there, as well. Beneath Fox ran my favorite channel, live imagery from a Predator Unmanned Aerial Vehicle circling somewhere over Iraq.

The biggest display, that morning and every morning, was a spooling date-time list describing scores of military and police actions undertaken over the last dozen hours. The succinct, acronym-packed reports flowed like haikus of violence: "0331: 1/5 Cav, 1st Cavalry Division, arrests suspects after Iraqi police stop car"; "0335 USMC vicinity Fallujah engaged by RPG, returned fire. No casualties."

The spool spun on and on, and I remember thinking: I know we're winning. We're winning because -- in the big picture -- all the opposition (Saddam's thugs and Zarqawi's al-Qaida) has to offer is the tyranny of the past. But the drop-by-drop police blotter perspective obscures that.

Collect relatively isolated events in a chronological list and presto: the impression of uninterrupted, widespread violence destroying Iraq. But that was a false impression. Every day, coalition forces were moving thousands of 18-wheelers from Kuwait and Turkey into Iraq, and if the "insurgents" were lucky they blew up one. However, flash the flames of that one rig on CNN and, "Oh my God, America can't stop these guys," is the impression left from Boise to Beijing.

Saddam's thugs and Zarqawi's klan were actually weak enemies -- "brittle" is the word I used to describe them at a senior planning meeting. Their local power was based on intimidation -- killing by car bomb, murdering in the street. Their strategic power was based solely on selling the false impression of nationwide quagmire -- selling post-Saddam Iraq as a dysfunctional failed state, rather than an emerging democracy.

On July 19, I attended a meeting in Najaf where the governors of Najaf and Diwaniya told the corps commander that they needed clean water and better sewer systems. Citizens in the city of Najaf wanted Marines in the area to start spending money. As I said, we were winning.

Were there severe security issues? Absolutely -- in August Najaf was the scene of a most curious battle. The Mahdi militia took over the Imam Ali Mosque -- but were slowly chewed to bits by U.S. troops and forced to leave the mosque by the political efforts of Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani and the local populace.

In World War II, destroying Nazi divisions and taking islands from the Japanese provided hard yardsticks to gauge military success. Irregular warfare rarely offers such a clarifying quantitative measure. Over the summer of 2004, I had the benefit of anecdotal measures. Iraqis I talked to would tell me they intended to vote in the January elections.

The elections would be "the big island," the defining moment in the post-Saddam political struggle, and it would be the Iraqi people providing the public yardstick.

That's precisely what happened. The Jan. 30 election provided the broad and deep perspective the police blotter obscures: This is a war of liberty against tyranny, and it's a war we are winning.

Bay, a nationally syndicated columnist based in Texas, specializes in military and foreign affairs.

Most likely pounding his pud, keyboard and subordanant. Wetting his pants under the bed and fowarding every pentagon press release he saw. Now he wets his bed at night, thankful he is here.

"Notice that the pro-war types were a bunch of out of shape white guys.

Author: devilgrrl"


Notice that devilgrrl is a bigot.

Thats funny that you had to package a whole bunch of little things in with your hate for president bush and the troops. I am an Air Force vet who went there and we are winning no matter what you damn hippies say. No I am not a repuican or democrat I am an American who has common sense moron