On a day where the President was getting all cozy at Camp David, there was a helicopter shot down in Tikrit. Five soldiers were wounded, and this is after five more troops were killed yesterday. As I said, the President was nice and protected at Camp David, doing what he usually likes to do, which is to relax away from all that nasty policy stuff in Washington. So, while he was busy not working, ten of thousands of protesters got together in Washington D.C. and San Francisco to voice their opposition to the war, and to demand that the American troops be brought home.
In Washington, it was reported by ABC News, that about 30,000 people protested against the war. Among them wasRev. Al Sharpton , and he said something that I thought only Dennis Kucinich was saying. Sharpton said, "Don't give Bush $87 billion, don't give him 87 cents, give our troops a ride home." Out of all the Democratic Presidential nominees Kucinich and Sharpton are the only two who are really going out on a limb to demand that the troops be brought home.
Of course, the protests were peaceful, and why wouldn't they be, these are presumably peace loving people. I would feel safer in Washington in the middle of a protest than I would in a room full of lobbyists any day of the week.
That all being said, of course the Christians had to try and break the peace. A bunch of wackos holding 'Trust Jesus' signs began shouting at some of the protesters, which once again goes to show you that the majority of Christians in this country are morons. Any sensible, rational Christian would know better than to believe something so magnificently ludicrous as looking to Jesus for trust in wartime, for obvious scriptural reasons. Of course, since the White House is also full of the moron-sect of Christianity, we all know that they are all in the situation room wearing their WWJD bracelets and waiting for His good grace to show them the light at the end of the Iraqi tunnel. There's no light in sight, boys.
The San Francisco Gate, reported that at the SF protest Danny Glover said, "This war is not about us. It is against us, against Iraqi people, and against our children." He could not be more right. The war is much broader then just Iraq. If you don't believe in this war, and you don't believe in the ideological positions of this administration, then you are as much a part of this war than the soldiers and citizens of Iraq. There is a divide in this country that just seems to be getting larger and larger everyday. The "Trust Jesus" folks are a surprisingly strong contingent, and though there is no doubt that they are morons, they have successfully waged the largest and most deadly missionary movement in centuries.
What would Jesus Do?
I think he would like to give them all a nice, hot golden shower. That would invoke a whole new meaning to Shock and Awe.