HERE’S ANOTHER REPORT FROM THE GROWING PRO-WAR MOVEMENT:

Cheering, chanting and waving flags, thousands jammed shoulder-to-shoulder into downtown Houston’s Jones Plaza on Saturday to hear politicians, soldiers and entertainers praise God, America and President Bush’s firm stand against Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. . . .

The only speaker who was opposed to military intervention in Iraq, U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Houston, was greeted with some boos as she stepped onto the stage midway through the two-hour rally. She and her party later were led from the plaza under protective police guard.

KPRC spokeswoman Melissa Brezner said 8,000 to 10,000 people attended the event. . . .

Michael Hambright, an ex-Marine and one of few blacks in the crowd, said he believed the rally achieved its goal by demonstrating public support for the troops.

He likened Saddam Hussein to Adolf Hitler in pre-World War II Europe, and said the United States has “given peace a chance.”

“Now,” he said, “I think it’s time for a different method.”

No Stalinists were involved in the event’s organization, so far as I can tell.

UPDATE: You can see pictures posted here and here. (There’s an alarming shortage of stilt-men, though). Laurence Simon has a blog account of the rally.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Reader Dave Schipani emails:

>From the newspaper article:

“Michael Hambright, an ex-Marine and one of few blacks in the crowd”

Hmm. I don’t recall any mainstream-media news reports pointing out the lily-white composition of the antiwar protests.

Well, to be fair, they didn’t really point out that they were organized by Stalinists, either. . . .