This weekend's International ANSWER march from the White House to the Pentagon fell victim to rain and unseasonably cool weather. Less than one-thousand people showed up to the “Speak Truth to Power” event on June 5th. Those who braved the bad weather made up for in passion what the protest lacked in numbers.

“This is a war for imperialism,” boomed the public address system. “It's a war for Exxon, and CitiBank.” The protestors largely agreed.

“I'm here as a vampire giving the Nazi salute because George Bush believes in war,” explained David Barrows, who donned a George W. Bush mask at the White House rally. Bush “thinks war is what makes you valid. If you’re the war-master of the world you have the greatest respect and the greatest power.” Barrows believes Bush tricked the nation into war “to get his vice president the oil contracts, and Halliburton the contracts in Iraq.”

Clearly, the "fascist," "slime," and "reactionary" Ronald Reagan wasn't the only president they despised.

Protestors at the march held aloft signs displaying such slogans as “George W. Bush: A Real Amerikkkan Hero,” “Jail Bush,” and “Hitler Would Be Proud.” From the podium, anti-American screams of “torturers,” “murderers,” “war criminals,” and “terrorists” were matched by an audience echo. Some waved Iraqi flags, while others handed out Communist literature.

Did bin Laden orchestrate the 9/11 attacks? "I don't know," maintained a New York woman. "I don't know who the hell bin Laden was because he was friends with the Bush family, and there’s all this CIA stuff. No, I’m not convinced." "Afghanistan was not responsible for 9/11," she believes. "The people who were theoretically on that plane were mostly from Saudi Arabia." Although she can’t come to proclaim Osama bin Laden guilty, the seasoned protestor confessed: "I'd like to see [Bush] in handcuffs."

So what if Bush wins come November?

The masked Mr. Barrows is holding out hope for a Bush defeat, but contends: "America is pretty pathetic in terms of enlightenment." "If he gets reelected," Pennsylvanian Jennifer Huseman noted, "I’m not coming back into the country until he’s gone." "I think the only reason Republicans get elected," Jared Hermann believes, "is because people are ignorant." Even World War II veteran Joe Murphy admitted, "I've already told my wife that I plan on moving to Canada."

"I think [Bush is] running the entire country to suit himself and his rich friends," North Carolinian Cinda McGwynn opined. "America is trying to take control of so many different countries," Lisa Goldstein remarked, noting that it reminds her "of the way Hitler wanted to control the world." "I think he’s the most arrogant man I've ever come in contact with in public life," Jennifer Huseman commented. "I think that he's a religious fanatic, and that he's allowing his business interests—which is oil—and his religious fanaticism to influence his policy way too heavily."

There are scores of reasons to oppose the war in Iraq. Real reasons to question the war include the lack of a vital U.S. interest in Iraq, the nation-building component of the mission, the failure to find weapons of mass destruction or Iraqi links to 9/11, the distraction from the job of dismantling al Qaeda, and the dangerous precedent of pre-emptive war based on speculation and not fact. Imaginary reasons to oppose the war include world-domination conspiracy theories and the notion that the war was a massive oil grab. The International ANSWER protestors prefer the fairy-tale reasons, and thus discredit legitimate critics of the war in Iraq.

You can't pick your enemies. But if you could, George W. Bush couldn't do a better job of selecting his opponents than the ones currently assigned to him.

I am a 20 year vet former Army Ranger and now Army Jet Instructor Pilot. I think you and you friends are a bunch of people you have been nowhere and done nothing.. When you have done something for this country other than just being born here in the great USA. Shutup or move out the planes fly both ways .....

Anytime ANYONE of you ignorant people would like to sit down in front of me and debate. Let me know!!!!! all takers weclome......

P.S. If anyone one of you that stated you were going to move if GW won. Well lets see if you are big enough to back up your month ..SEE YA