THEY WERE PLANNING ANTIWAR PROTESTS before there was even a war. And look who was doing the planning:

The organizers say the February rallies were first agreed upon at a small strategy session in Florence in November. But their roots go back to the days just after Sept. 11, 2001, when activists say they began meeting to map out opposition to what they anticipated would be the U.S. military response to the terrorist attacks on New York and the Pentagon.

In Britain, according to organizer John Rees, several hundred activists first got together the weekend after Sept. 11. Most were from the hard core of the British left — the Socialist Workers Party, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and the anti-capitalist organization Globalized Resistance, along with Labor Party legislators Jeremy Corbyn and George Galloway. Within weeks, they had combined with representatives from two more important elements — Britain’s growing Muslim community and its militant trade unions. By October they had a name: the Stop the War Coalition.

I guess “Communists and Islamists Who Hate America” was already taken. It’s pretty obvious who’s behind this, and how little the agenda really had to do with “peace,” isn’t it?

UPDATE: I wonder if any of these marchers will write something like this thirty years from now?