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September 15, 2007
Losing, Protesters Turn Rabid in DC
by Tina Grazier
It hasn’t been a good week for the anti-war crowd. General Patraeus clearly made mince meat of sanctimonious congressmen determined to discredit him and his report on the progress in Iraq. So Saturday's anti-war protesters, led by retired protester Cindy Sheehan, Ramsey Clark, and Ralph Nader, no doubt started out their day in The Capitol feeling a bit disgruntled.
The DC march began peacefully enough but soon raucous chanting turned the "peace march" into an unruly, disrespectful mob. The protest ended with 189 arrests and a couple of injuries to both protesters and police officers. Demonstrators had planned a “die-in” reminiscent of the sixties antiwar radicals at Berkley, perhaps at the request of the retired Cindy Sheehan, who recently called for more radical protests in cities and on college campuses around the country. Guess she’s come out of retirement.
Swell.
Posted by Post Scripts at September 15, 2007 11:01 PM