ANTI-WAR OR JUST ANTI-AMERICAN? - AT 8:25 A.M. ET: 

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Before war protesters ended their demonstration Saturday afternoon, several placed cardboard coffins in front of the offices of northern Virginia defense contractors such as KBR Inc. and Lockheed Martin Corp. as riot police stood by.

''Lockheed Martin you can't hide, we charge you with genocide!'' they chanted as part of a demonstration that began in Washington to mark the sixth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq...

...Organizers from the ANSWER Coalition said more than 1,000 groups sponsored the protest to call for an end to the Iraq war, and estimated that about 10,000 people participated.

COMMENT:  What really riles me about these stories - and this began during Vietnam - is that the press gives us so few facts about the "anti-war" protesters.  ANSWER is a Marxist organization.  (Read that pro-Communist.)  But apparently we're not permitted to say it out loud, for that would be "McCarthyism."  No, it wouldn't.  It would be honest, accurate reporting.  I visited many "anti-war" marches in New York during the Vietnam War.  Many of the organizers had far-left credentials.  But then, as now, they were just described as "anti-war."  As Christopher Hitchens has written, they're not anti-war.  They're just anti- some wars, especially those America has a chance of winning.  But the mainstream media keeps it all vague.

March 22, 2009