Earlier today I wrote a post about the folks behind this weekend’s anti-war protests.  I pointed out that despite most of the organizers being avowed socialists and apologists for terrorists who live on the political fringe in this country the media would be portraying the protests as large gatherings of ordinary Americans voicing their opinions about the war.

Since seeing is believing, I thought I’d share with you some highlights from the United for Peace and Justice photo gallery of the protest.

First off we have an image of sanity in some dude dressed up as Death thanking the President for all the over time.

Of course, in reality fewer Iraqis are dying now in the violence in Iraq than were dying because of torture, murder, genocide and simple starvation under Saddam Hussein.  So in order for this guy to be accurate he’d have to portray Death as picketing the President with a sign blasting him for the loss in hours.

But whatever.  Next up, Satan, er, Mr. President:

That button reads “Is It Fascism Yet?” No, I don’t know what it means either.

Code Pink was in attendance too, and their contribution were these shoes that represent children killed during the U.S. occupation:

By displaying these shoes and then calling for the end of the U.S. occupation of Iraq the implication from the group is that America is responsible for the deaths of these children.  Which ignores the fact that a) more kids were dying under Saddam than under the U.S. occupation and b) these kids probably all died because of terrorist/insurgency attacks on U.S. or Iraqi government targets.  If the terrorists and insurgents would lay down their arms and quit fighting these kids wouldn’t die. After all, if we Americans give up the fight the violence in Iraq would continue, and even get worse, as the terrorists fought to topple the democratically-elected Iraqi government.  If the terrorists gave up the fight in Iraq we’d have peace in that country.  So why doesn’t Code Pink call on the terrorists to give up the war rather than the Americans?

Any liberals out there got the answer for that one?  I’m guessing no.  Which just proves how all this left-wing wailing over Iraqi deaths is a means to an end.  Code Pink doesn’t care about Iraqi deaths.  Once the U.S. is out of Iraq all these liberals will shut up about the deaths, even after those deaths likely increase due to the power struggle to fill the vacuum left by the departure of our military.

Moving along, here’s some chick named Noura Erakat from the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, which is a group all about getting the Israelis to quit defending themselves so that the Palestinians can exercise their “equal rights” in driving the Jews into the sea.  What’s that got to do with Iraq?  Who knows.  But what’s an anti-war protest without some harpy screeching for the Jews to get off Allah’s land?

And speaking of what completes an anti-war protest, how about some clearly well-fed moonbats in ill-fitting Guantanamo Bay outfits?

And some weirdo with a George Bush mask playing with an inflatable ball?

Here’s another sign that’s interesting in the way the Code Pink shoes were interesting:

Again, given the message of the sign and the fact that it’s directed at America’s political leaders the clear implication here is that American troops are killing Iraqis.  But who is really killing Iraqis?  The American forces who are protecting the government the Iraqis themselves formed or the terrorist forces who are fighting to drive America out and topple that government?  If the terrorists weren’t attacking Iraqis wouldn’t be dying, so why is this guy’s message directed at the U.S. government?

Anyway, enough with in-depth analysis of shallow anti-war slogans.  Let’s just admire the classiness on display here:

Another person you won’t see interviewed on CNN.  Hope that was worth the trip pal.

Here’s another “9-11 was an inside job” nut, backed up by a “impeach Bush for war crimes” nut:

And here’s a liberal nut with a conspiracy theory I’d not heard of before:

Three nuclear wars?  We nuked our own troops?  I’m not even sure I want to know what this broad is smoking.

More 9-11 truth nuts:

It really is scary how many “9-11 was an inside job” whack jobs are out there.  That they’re able to walk around large public gatherings like this one and proclaim that 9/11 was an act of our own government without getting pelted by rotten vegetables is a testament to the sanity of most of the anti-war movement.

This guy feels the need to make terrible-looking ponchos out of perfectly good flags.  Oh, and apologize to the Iraqis for removing the dictator that was oppressing them and defending the government they voted into place:

The celebrity nuts were in attendance too.  Here’s the nuttiest guy in the House of Representatives, Dennis Kucinich…

...professional victim pimp Jesse Jackson…

...iconoclastic Hollywood liberals Tim Robbins, Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn (with Sarandon apparently getting a nice welcome from some of the “9/11 was an inside job, Bush is a murdering terrorist” folks):

...and, um, this guy…

...who is apparently famous among anti-war circles for setting a car on fire and burning himself after he learned that his son died in Iraq.  And not just any car either, but the car of the Marines who came to tell him his son died according to the caption for his photo:

Carlos Arredondo is an anti-war activist who lost his son in Iraq. In 2004, on his 44th birthday, representatives from the Marines notified him of his son’s death. In his grief he tried to set their car on fire and accidentily burned himself over a quarter of his body.

Clearly a stable, level-headed guy.  The sort of person we should all be listening to when it comes to foreign policy.  Yeah, I know.  His kid died in Iraq, and that’s awful.  But still, crazy is crazy.

In December of last year Carlos became a citizen of this country, according to his Wikipedia entry, with an assist to Ted Kennedy.  Thanks for that, Teddy.

That’s pretty much the best of the photos the United for Peace and Justice folks have uploaded so far.  You can see them all for yourself right here.

I should point out that I don’t believe all people who oppose the war in Iraq are crazy, terror apologists or socialists.  I think there are some valid reasons for having opposed the original invasion of Iraq, though none for pulling out of the country before our job there is complete.  I also think there are many extremely valid criticisms to be made of the way the President has handled this war.  My point in this post, and my previous post on this protest, is to point out that most of the folks that attended this event aren’t making those valid criticisms.  They have no valid reasons for opposing the war in Iraq.  They are motivated by hatred of our current President, and a knee-jerk ideological response to any use of America’s military might in the world.

These are not level-headed Americans making a stand, they are cretins and zealots inhabiting the political fringes and the fact that they get so much adoring attention from the media with little or no focus on their obvious faults and nuttiness is appalling.