The Facts of the Pentagon March
Friday, March 30, 2007; Page A16
The overwrought March 27 pro-war letter, "Points on the Antiwar Protest," including its false attack on the Answer Coalition, had the same credibility as President Bush's explanations for going to war in the first place.
Tens of thousands of people marched on the Pentagon on March 17, led by a large contingent of active-duty soldiers and Marines, Iraq war veterans, parents whose children died in Iraq and other veterans. They were joined by people from across the political spectrum.
Mr. Bush's pro-war supporters assaulted these peaceful protesters. They spat on Iraq war veterans and others. They screamed racist obscenities at a Latino father carrying a picture of his son who was killed in Iraq. Muslim women were taunted. The pro-war supporters shoved and hit elderly people and high school students and ripped signs from their hands. The Post cited the "passion" of this relatively small pro-war mob. If antiwar demonstrators had done the same, they would have been described as "violent" and "extremists."
Mr. Bush lied when he took the country to war. His supporters lie when they try to demonize those working to stop a war that has taken the lives of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and more than 3,200 U.S. service members. It is the antiwar movement, not Mr. Bush or his fringe ultra-right supporters, that cares about the lives of U.S. troops. Their lives, and the lives of Iraqi people, are too precious to be squandered in a war of aggression.
More than 1,000 antiwar protests swept the country from March 17 to March 20. Veterans and military families were in the forefront everywhere.
This is a major story that was greatly underreported by The Post.
BRIAN BECKER
National Coordinator
Answer Coalition
Washington
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/29/AR2007032901956.html
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