Eighteen-year-old Ben Petrisin, who works on The Commons, said he was "tired of these anti-war protests."
A supporter of the war and of the Bush administration, Petrisin, who is a home-schooled Trumansburg resident, shook the hand of one Ithacan holding a sign that said "Support Resolution 1441."
"(The regime's) 12 years is enough," Petrisin said. "It's time to do something."
Petrisin added that the connection between this war and oil, in his opinion, is simply false.
"If this were really about oil we would have lifted the sanctions a long time ago," he said.