In Denver, Colorado more than 3,000 people filled the Federal Building's plaza as part of the international day of protest called "Bring the Troops Home Now!" Great job to the main organizing group, MADCOW Coalition! As one of the marshals for the march portion of events I can attest to the fact that the crowd stretched for over eight street blocks! There was a few "professional" looking signs but, unlike pro-war rallies in which the vast majority of signs are professional looking, the vast majority are hand lettered and speak of the individual's view about needless deaths of Americans and innocent civilians by the lies that Bush and his minions have bellowed since they came to power by judicial fiat.

Again and again the corporate media has downplayed the numbers but do numbers really matter? As one protester mentioned to me that it is not the quantity of people but the quality of people who participate in showing the light of reason and moral dudgeon about the facts that Mr. Bush and his compatriots seem utterly incapable of seeing.