Anti-war protestors attend The Last Supper

[HolyWarrior]

[Jaakko]

Yes, everything is just dandy in Iraq.

[Az]

I think that's the best "GWB is a monkey" caricature ever.

[Sandman]

Is that served with filthy river water?

[Spiffor]

However, it is true anti-war protesters are much fewer than before. The mobilization as gotten low

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by Spiffor
However, it is true anti-war protesters are much fewer than before. The mobilization as gotten low

It is a little hard to be a protestor when thing you are protesting is almost over.

[BeBMan]

Nah, then the real fun begins

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by BeBro
Nah, then the real fun begins

It stops being an anti-war movement then and turns into an anti-occupation movement. It already shows signs of doing just that.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Even as the war with Iraq winds down, protesters in the United States and abroad continued their campaign against the conflict Saturday. In Washington, 10 blocks from an antiwar demonstration, supporters of the war effort drew thousands to their own rally.

Protesters turned out in much smaller numbers than in the months leading up to the conflict, and their focus switched from keeping American troops out of Iraq to bringing them home.

In Washington, where tens of thousands marched during protests in January and March, a few thousand people rallied a few blocks from the White House for speeches and a march.

Near the antiwar protest site, a similar number, intermittently chanting "U-S-A U-S-A," held their own rally against the backdrop of the Capitol dome. As demonstrators waved American flags, people said nothing about U.S. troops' leaving any time soon.

"They should stay as long as required to help out the Iraqi people," said Rimma Dean, 42, an insurance analyst from Olney, Md. "The Iraqi people need our support."

Among speakers were former Republican Sen. Fred Thompson, now a television actor; actor Ron Silver; and former Reagan administration official Linda Chavez. Organizers read the names of the U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq.

"Our parents died for Vietnamese freedom. Our children are fighting for Iraqi freedom," said P.T. Dao, 53, editor of a Vietnamese newspaper in Falls Church, Va. He was among 200 ethnic Vietnamese on the National Mall.

Other countries had antiwar demonstrations Saturday. They, too, were not on the scale of past protests, such as the February march in London that drew up to 2 million people.

This time, police said 20,000 demonstrators marched in London. Many held placards demanding "No occupation of Iraq." They paused for two minutes of silence for the victims of war and tossed bunches of yellow daffodils at the gates of 10 Downing St., Prime Minister Tony Blair's official home.

In Berlin, about 12,000 people gathered for a rally near the Brandenburg Gate, the city's best-known landmark, brandishing banners with slogans such as "Chancellor, close the airspace" to the U.S. military. Speakers demanded that U.S.-led forces withdraw immediately from Iraq, where President Saddam Hussein's government has disappeared after a lightning invasion force reached Baghdad, the capital.

Nearly 50,000 school children and other protesters marched in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Around 4,000 gathered in Seoul, South Korea, to demand the government rescind its decision to send noncombat troops to help U.S.-led forces in Iraq.

The Washington antiwar march route took demonstrators near the White House and Justice Department and past offices of companies that organizers said are profiting from the war and media organizations they said ignored the plight of Iraqi civilians.

For activists, the Iraq war has overshadowed the spring meeting of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. While previous meetings of the financial institutions have served as a magnet for thousands of protesters, organizers said no more than 2,000 were expected for a march Sunday. No civil disobedience was planned.

Security was tight for the meetings. Police closed several streets around the International Monetary Fund and World Bank headquarters, but downtown streets were quiet.

[BeBMan]

Originally posted by DinoDoc
It stops being an anti-war movement then and turns into an anti-occupation movement.

Yes, but I sometimes have the impression that this is secondary - as long as it is anti-something.....

[GePap]

The only funny part of that cartoon is the fact that Gephard supported this war. But I guess fact checking was not allowed to intervene with the cartoonist's politics Hmmm, not checking facts before making an opinion..

I didn't know you were an editorial cartoonist Holywarrior.

[gsmoove23]

Arnett looking in through the window is a little funny.

[General Ludd]

Is that Spock in the middle?

[Inverse Icarus]

right, sorry for being ignorant, but what does "serving a crow" mean?

or is this supposed to be a "that crow don't caw anymore" innuendo. that would imply that bush cooked the protesters though, no?

[chequita guevara]

Eating crow means eating your words.

DD's right. The anti-war movement will simultaneously become anti-occupation as well as demand that the US lives up to its obligations to Iraq rather than do another Afganistan.

[Q Classic]

where's hu?