Proud of our soldiers, ashamed of the war

I kept the TV on for most of the day yesterday, switching from station to station and never saw one second of coverage of yesterday's peace march in DC. However, a search on Google News this morning turns up 791 stories from around the world. The WaPo estimates 300,000 marched in yesterday's event including first time demonstrator Steven Olsen, 57, whose son, "an Army Reserve sergeant was sent to Iraq after enrolling in medical school," and whose sign inspired the title of this post.

Thousands more peace marchers were delayed by mysterious Amtrak shutdowns and didn't arrive in time to join. And while much has been made about the event's organizers and their motives, only the hardest core Bush apologists could deny that the crowd represented a real cross-section of main stream America.

Meanwhile a handful of war supporters harangued the marching masses and there is pro-war demonstration slated for this afternoon that hopes to garner a thousand or so attendees. Tellingly, I saw better write-ups of the tiny pro-Bush group than I saw of the hundreds of thousands of dissenters, but no amount of spin can make the alleged Bush mandate anything more than a mockery at this point.

Clearly, the Bush apologists' endlessly echoed smears and the MSM's failure to acknowledge the event failed to marginalize the message. Americans want accountability, we want responsible leaders with a transparent government and most of all we want peace and we want it now.