Well, four years of war have come and gone and thousands of angry folk in Minneapolis marched and rallied about it this past weekend.
It was a good rally, the kind that really gets you fired up and full of piss and vinegar to go out there and do something. Which was nice after a long stretch of fairly lackluster "are-we-going-to-even-make-a-difference type protests that had been plaguing the movement for a while.
Most interesting fact learned at the rally: the local rep of Vets For Peace described the thorough pat-down that members of the military receive when they are used as props by government figures for photo ops. But the pat-down is not looking for partisan political signs or offensive imagery; it is instead searching to make certain the soldiers are carrying no weapons they could harm or kill the politicians with. You know, those politicians that support the troops, unlike those of us who want them to come home.
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