tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107591.post-1168989289258533472007-01-05T17:50:00.000-05:002007-01-16T18:14:49.273-05:00<center><img src="http://www.brucegoldfarb.com/images/aei1.jpg" /></center><br />What better way to spend a lunch hour watching a protest in front of the <a href="http://www.aei.org/" target="_blank">American Enterprise Institute</a>, around the corner from the office at M and 17th Street. At a confererence inside, hawks chicken and otherwise issued a report calling for the deployment of a "large and sustained surge" of U.S. troops to Iraq. Senators John McCain and Joe Lieberman were among the headliners appearing in support of the report.<br /><br /><center><img src="http://www.brucegoldfarb.com/images/aei2.jpg" /><br /></center><br />Outside, several hundred people at the protest organized by MoveOn. Must have been a few hundred people walking in a light drizzle. They chanted:<br /><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><blockquote><span style="font-style: italic;">John McCain, John McCain</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Escalation is insane</span><span style="font-style: italic;"></span></blockquote>and<br /><blockquote style="font-style: italic;">John and Joe, John and Joe<br />Escalation's not the way to go</blockquote>As people mill about, they were joined by a chorus of LaRouche supporters. Wait, what?<br /><br /><center><img src="http://www.brucegoldfarb.com/images/aei3.jpg" /></center><br />That's the National Geographic building across the street. And who should I run into but my friend, The Architect?<br /><br /><center><img src="http://www.brucegoldfarb.com/images/aei4.jpg" /></center>Citizen Xhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11764743098754133669noreply@blogger.com