Problem is that there is no coverage of this kind of thing on the media. This is one of the great things about the internet. It came from a source who I think is trustworthy, a lady who writes for the papers in Chicago. She's a free-lance journalist.
The only way you can hear about something like this is if it comes at you through the net or someone you know. There is a virtual blackout on what really happens at these demonstrations and on what' s really going on in Iraq. The journalists are not independent of the Pentagon but are "embedded" with the U.S. military. Many of the journalists have been asked to carry weapons and participate. How can you have objective journalism under these conditions? In Vietnam, journalists were pretty much free to come and go although some were asked to carry weapons to protect themselves.
We haven't seen any pictures of the carnage in this war as of yet.
This era reminds me of the early fifties and McCarthy Committee investigations by the HUAC. What do the French say about the more things change the more they stay the same?