IVAW drama queens in Denver

Army Sergeant complains that the Denver Police are looking for potential “direct action” perpetrators. I guess this little monument to drama completely escaped the police;

Here are the anti-war heroes of the IVAW in Denver. All the Left loves them.

Michael Spinnato, a former Marine, said he realized that the war was wrong after returning from combat and attending college at the University of Massachusetts.

“There is no explanation why we are still there,” he said. “Bush and Cheney lied about weapons of mass destruction.”

See, that’s the problem – we need to keep returning vets out of UMASS. I’ll bet he didn’t think there was anything wrong with the war until he met some hairy-legged chic.

Code Pink shut down part of the 16th Street Mall area for about ten minutes until they were dispersed by police.

Coming the other way on the street were the Iraq Veterans Against the War. The group of Iraq veterans marched in the opposite direction on the sidewalk, chanting to applause from the spectators both on the sidewalk and dining on the patio of cafes on the street.

The Code Pink protesters stopped traffic while singing, “All we are saying, is give peace a chance,” echoing the famous Beatles song from nearly 40 years ago. The riot police facing the Code Pink protesters had non-violent weapons in their hands, but never pointed them anywhere besides the ground. Some of the Code Pink protesters took the statement “Make out not war” to heart during the singing.

The police seemed more amused than threatened by the non-violent protesters.

The Iraq Veterans for the War, on the other hand, stayed on the sidewalk while they showed their displeasure for the war in Iraq.

Of course, the odd YouTuber will call the police Stormtroopers and chastise them for wearing protective equipment like IVAW’s pet Rodneykingman;

If they really were storm troopers, rodney would be laying in the hospital right now wrapped in bandages and mumbling through the gauze “Damn!” And I’m pretty sure you’d get an idea what “Recreate ’68” really menat when you got shoved through a plate glass window.

Even Vets For Peace, those dinosaurs from the first peace movement are getting some face time;

There seems to be a lot of blogging action on the IVAW today, so I’ll update this as the week progresses.

UPDATED: LGF/Zombie now has pictures of yesterday’s festivities in Denver, although I don’t see any IVAW members.

Category: Antiwar crowd, Code Pink, Iraq Veterans Against the War, Liberals suck, Phony soldiers, Politics