Gathering of Eagles

Mission Accomplished

Consider…ANSWER had a year to plan their well-publicized event and were hoping for around 100,000. They actually drew about 5,000-10,000, according to various news reports today. The Gathering of Eagles, on the other hand, had about six weeks to plan an unprecedented response - and with no advertising, no publicity, no celebrity or political endorsement, no news coverage, and no big money, we had about 30,000 boots on the ground!

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I admit watching some of the ANSWER Coalition speakers on C-Span.

Meh.

I think it was a mistake to start the march near the Vietnam Memorial. I'll take the ANSWER Coalition at their word that they intended the memorial no harm, but that was a tough sell to veterans after a "splinter group" painted the Capitol steps in January.

Veterans, Others Denounce Marchers

But the war protesters have gone too far, Lee and others said. At a Jan. 27 antiwar rally, some protesters spray-painted the pavement on a Capitol terrace. Others crowned the Lone Sailor statue at the Navy Memorial on Pennsylvania Avenue with a pink tiara that had "Women for Peace" written across it.

Word of those incidents ricocheted around the Internet.

You remember how the political right turned Saddam Hussein into Hitler during the run-up to the war? Is it any better to have the political left trying to turn President Bush into LBJ & Hitler simultaneously?

UPDATE:

NYT's DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK and SARAH ABRUZZESE have a better report than AP's LARRY MARGASAK and MATTHEW BARAKAT.

Michelle Malkin's Roundup ... Blogburst: Gathering of Eagles--30,000 strong