To protest the crushing of the Prague Spring in 1968 by the USSR, a student went to Wencelas Square in the center of Prague, doused himself in petrol and set himself alight. The message he sent was that it was preferable to die in agony than live under the bootheel of the Soviets.
These idiots on the other hand are sending the message that it is preferable to have some goosebumps on a late Winter day than go to war with Iraq. Colour me unimpressed and unmoved.