PROTESTING AGAINST THE PROTESTORS
The Anti-Capitalist Convergence made its way across the city to the World Bank where they chanted and played football ringed by riot police.
Later they joined a much larger protest under the banner of Answer, Act Now to Stop War and End Racism, which massed blocks from the White House at Freedom Plaza.
After several hours of speeches questioning US foreign policy in Central and South America and the Middle East, several thousand protestors marched to the Capitol.
Halfway to the capitol, they met with a group of less than a hundred pro-government protestors. A line of blue-helmeted police stood between the two groups.
As the anti-war protestors passed them, the pro-military action demonstrators sang, "All we are saying, is give war a chance."
The group was associated with FreeRepublic.com, which protestor Dave Fordyce called as a constitutionalist organisation.
He carried a sign saying, "Welcome Bin Laden Fan Club."
He recently received an e-mail informing him of the funeral of a friend of his who worked for the US Navy at the Pentagon and had been killed in the attack.
While he is not sure that he totally backs the US response thus far especially with respect to security, "I do know that a response is needed," he said.
And he came out to the counter-demonstration because "now is not a time to sit on the couch."