I didn't hear about the spray painting. I'm surprised that it wasn't front-page news but maybe the media is also shifting, now that the anti-war position is gaining momentum?

Yes, the march looked great! (on cspan from my living room TV) Did you happen to hear about the morons who spray painted the capitol steps? These nimrods give our cause a bad name and feed the right-wing hate machine.

Saturday's March was GREAT!!For the record: ILOVE CODE PINK.Beautiful day, a little brisk, people of all ages, shapes, colors, sizes, etc. marched around the U.S. Capitol at one point completely encircling it. Hundreds of thousands? Half a million? Who knows? Who cares? The fact is that there were a ton of people, saying End the War NOW! I caught glimpses of Tim Robbins and Jesse Jackson. Although i saw Jesse many times during the 80s during the anti-war demonstrations then (Central America folks, at the time the US was very buzy buzy buzy arming and helping Saddam Hussein), i first met Jesse in Port au Prince the day that President Aristide was returned to office by ... the U.S.! Yes, I was very happy with the U.S.A. that day. I saw Jesse take a couple of Haitian generals aside (presumably the very same generals that up until very recently had been supporting the putschist Cedras) and said to them "Now don't fuck it up! Don't fuck it up!" An unedited moment of diplomacy.Yesterday, Sunday, there was a training for possibly 500 or more activists who stayed after Saturday's demonstration to lobby the Hill today. The members of the assembly were of 47 states of the union. Veterans, union members, students, college professors, ministers, again, you name it. I stuck around and helped a delegation from a far-away state get their bearings - they were impressive, including a former navy intelligence guy who was capturing the signals at the Gulf of Tonkin -yes that Gulf of Tonkin at that fateful moment - so he's got a little experience on how pre-war intelligence is manipulated. Along with his fellow delegates, i am sure they are doing a great job lobbying their reps and Senators as i write these very lines! United for Peace and Justice did a great job, both with the march and with the lobby day. Ahh, I love the smell of democracy...

I don't like posting after my own post, since I feel like I'm hogging the forum and maybe just talking to myself, but since I'm online again after several years (finally shelled out the money for a satellite dish), I realize how much info I've been missing. For example:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6266393.stmhttp://www.motherjones.orghttp://www.iraqbodycount.orgThe latter gives what is probably the best approximation of civilian casualties in Iraq, which is 2-3 times the Iraqi interior ministry count but also far, far less than the British medical journal Lancet's count. However, let's not forget over a million people have fled to other countries.

Yeah, Bush's behavior is pretty outrageous. He's only vetoed one bill in 6 years -- stem-cell research -- because whenever anything else he doesn't like crosses his desk, he signs the bill into law but then also signs a classified national security "finding" interpreting the law, usually rendering it void. He's done this hundreds of times since 9/11, but it didn't come out till about a year ago, I think. Someone should really bring a test case on this.

Missed this one in the headlines -- is US mail now open game?http://directmag.com/legal/postal/bush_mail_privacy/index.html

Gwynne Dyer says Saddam was hanged for the wrong reasons. Kinda obvious but worth reviewing:http://www.metrobeat.net/gbase/Expedite/Content?oid=oid%3A4250

"American officials said Tuesday that while many people were being executed in the area, they found no evidence of people being hanged from lampposts." - NY Times 1/10/07

Interesting article in Rolling Stone last month:http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/12855294/national_affairs_the_2_trillion_dollar_war

Maybe I should have quit while I was ahead... (like in 1969)R.I.P. SaddamDamn you Chimpybushitlerburton!!!!