The Swamp - Chicago Tribune Blogs:It’s starting to feel like President Bush’s Iraq speech last night may have proved the last straw, providing a critical boost to the anti-Iraq war movement in the U.S.
There was a press conference here today at which opponents of continued U.S. presence in Iraq and the president’s planned increase in U.S. troop levels there unveiled plans for protests, starting tonight, to raise pressure on Congress to block funding for increased U.S. military activities in Iraq.
The coalition behind what organizers called their National Campaign Against the Escalation of the War in Iraq reflected a range of left-of-center grassroots groups, including organized labor, veterans and the MoveOn.org online political action organization.
The clear impression they left was that they were fed up and they weren’t going to take anymore.....
And what was that message? That members of Congress, especially Democrats, had better think long and hard before they agreed to fund the surge of more than 21,500 troops into Baghdad....
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Photos: Protesters in Arlington Heights, IL. (Courtesy of True Majority)
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