said Sheehan
Posted on 03/20/2006 1:27:16 PM PST by tgslTakoma
Pentagon (AP) - A low-key anti-war demonstration moved Monday within a few hundred yards of the Pentagon, as marchers called for an end to the Iraq war.
A muffled drum and a ceremonial peace bell sounded along a route followed by about 200 protesters from the Lincoln Memorial to Defense Department (website) headquarters, across the Potomac River in Arlington, Va.
"No Iraqi is our enemy," said Steve Cleghorn, 56, of Reynoldsville, Pa. He took part in the march on behalf of the group Military Families Speak Out.
Organizers worked with U.S. Park Police to select a route that allowed permitted demonstrations along a channel park just east of the Pentagon. They were blocked by Pentagon Police officers standing behind a temporary barrier of 5-foot-high steel fencing, set up on the edge of a parking lot just east of the Pentagon grounds.
Many demonstrators chanted "Peace now," as more than a dozen crossed the fence in an orchestrated act of civil disobedience. They were immediately taken into custody.
The publicized goal of the demonstration was to deliver a mock coffin draped in black bunting and decorated with photographs of the war to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld (news - bio) .
"The coffin represents the massive casualties we're seeing in the war in Iraq," said Gordon Clark, 45, of Silver Spring, Md., with the group Iraq Pledge of Resistance.
"We're here to energize most of the people in America who are with us," said Cindy Sheehan, who last summer staged a month-long protest outside President Bush (website - news - bio) 's Texas ranch. Sheehan was not among those attempting to scale the barrier.
"We're out here representing millions of people around the world." said Sheehan, whose soldier son Casey died in Iraq in 2004.
Many of the demonstrators claimed ties to military personnel who have served in Iraq, including soldiers who have been wounded.
GOD I am so sick of these reverential "news stories" about these nimrods.
Now why did you go and offend the world's nimrods?
In response, the Pentagon ordered their defenses to "open fire" with an artillary barrage.
said Sheehan
Should read, "I'm out here tragedy-pimping to millions of people around the world. Excuse me while I shuffle off to my next interview."
Wondering what number she was smoking...
I would love to see how Cindy Sheehan would do if the US were an Islamic Republic.
Not too damned well, I suspect.
"No Iraqi is our enemy,"
Partly true. Many of the so call "freedom fighters" aren't from Iraq.
Sounds like the liberal media announcing this story.200 does not qualify as a "massive protest"!Stories like this are'nt anything new and should not even be reported.These people are idiots and subversives!
Neither was I among those competing in last year's Iron Man Triathlon, but we are talking about relative concepts now....
Idiots.
They would rather people be put into shredders than being allowed to vote.
They prefer rape rooms to freedom, for OTHER people, of course.
These mutants repulse me. They are unworthy of freedom.
It was said in the heat of the moment. (It's the Irish in me. ;)
Someone, please explain to this bonehead that if you multiplied the number of dead US service people by two hundered, you'd have the number of people who died in traffic accidents in 2005. Why the hell isn't Mr. Greanpeace, touchy-feely, anti-conflict hippy standing out infront of the Department of Transportation demanding safer cars? Jeeze, this generation of spoiled whiney idiots should have been there at Nomandy when we lost three thousand men a minute claiming the beachead.
Every casualties matters gravely, they are much lower than the prewar estimates which the Dems all knew before the resolution vote.
These Useful Idiots make the job longer and cause more deaths with their message of weakness.
She would be screaming,"But I was sticking up for you!" As they cut her head off.
She would be screaming,"But I was sticking up for you!" As they cut her head off.
And the head continued to rattle off absurdities as it rolled away.
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