It was the 12th Anniversary of Shock & Awe, the U. S. attack on Iraq on Saturday the 21st of March but, it’s been 24 years since the U.S. has been dropping bombs on the country of Iraq. When Obama came into office he promised to end the war in Iraq and now he’s asking Congress to expand it. The pretext for bombing Iraq in 1990 was Kuwait, then it was Saddam Hussain’s WMD’s that cause millions of Iraqis to die from lack of medical care and food, which turned out to be complete hogwash. In 2003 it was the “attack” of 911, Bush & Cheney said we had to “keep America safe” from “terrorists”. Now, it’s “We have to stop ISIL”. The only reason ISIL exists is due to the fact that the U.S has been bombing the country of Iraq for the past 24 years, says Brian Becker speaking in front of the Whitehouse on a sunny, warm spring day in front of a few hundred demonstrators. Dropping More bombs is not going to put an end to ISIL,, the U.S. needs to “get the Hell out of Iraq”. Allow Iraq to be self determining and leave the people alone and let the Iraqi people do what they’ve done for thousands of years and control their own destiny. The Iraqi people need Rumsfeld, Buch, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, and Powell to be held accountable for their crimes, arrested, prosecuted and imprisoned for their crimes in Iraq and elsewhere. “That’s what we are demanding today.” Brian Becker concluded by asking demonstrators to pick up a makeshift Coffin, cardboard boxes covered with Iraqi flags that were taken along the march route and left and various stops along the way. Brian Becker is a co-director of the International Action Center (IAC), a steering-committee member of International ANSWER, and a former member of the Secretariat of the Marxist-Leninist Workers World Party (WWP). He was also a contributor to the WWP newspaper, Workers World. Through his association with these organizations, Becker became a prominent figure in the anti-war movement’s massive post-9/11 peace rallies. Spring Rising was put together by Anti War activist, Cindy Sheehan, the A.N.S.W.E.R Coalition and many more. 
Flag draped makeshift Coffins
