End the war: Try again
The Nation
by Christopher Hayes
03/27/08
On the late afternoon of the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, a grim, surreal procession made its way up DC’s Capitol Hill. Down Independence Avenue alongside the House office buildings marched a single file of protesters, each clad in a black T-shirt, wearing a haunting white mask and holding a sign with the name of a civilian killed in Iraq. As they trudged up the Hill, a drummer rapped out a spare and mournful beat. Aside from several police escorts on bicycles, few were there to bear witness. Congress was in recess, the usual passel of commuters away or shuttered indoors, the streets empty under a misting gray sky. Like the real-life funerals for the Iraqi dead they represented, this re-creation, too, would pass with hardly a notice...
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080414/hayes
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=fifth+anniversary
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Christopher+Hayes
by Christopher Hayes
03/27/08
On the late afternoon of the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, a grim, surreal procession made its way up DC’s Capitol Hill. Down Independence Avenue alongside the House office buildings marched a single file of protesters, each clad in a black T-shirt, wearing a haunting white mask and holding a sign with the name of a civilian killed in Iraq. As they trudged up the Hill, a drummer rapped out a spare and mournful beat. Aside from several police escorts on bicycles, few were there to bear witness. Congress was in recess, the usual passel of commuters away or shuttered indoors, the streets empty under a misting gray sky. Like the real-life funerals for the Iraqi dead they represented, this re-creation, too, would pass with hardly a notice...
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080414/hayes
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=fifth+anniversary
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Christopher+Hayes
rudkla - 28. Mär, 10:06
