I DON’T KNOW HOW MANY PEOPLE showed up for this pro-liberation rally in Milwaukee (the report estimates 600-700, but that’s just an amateur eyeball estimate) but it was a lot more than showed up at Knoxville’s anti-war rally today. Here are some pictures.

UPDATE: And a crowd estimated at between 2,000 (authorities) and 5,000 (organizers) assembled in “>Omaha as well:

People waving flags and singing “God Bless America” covered a downtown Omaha hillside Saturday afternoon in a show of support for the U.S. military and President Bush.

Talk show host Gary Sadlemyer and other organizers from Omaha radio station KFAB stressed the rally was “pro-America,” not pro-war. But signs in the crowd and interviews with participants indicated strong support for using force if Bush deems it necessary. . . .

Bob Kerrey, a Vietnam veteran and former U.S. senator from Nebraska, spoke at the event. So did Omahan Charles Lane, one of the famed Tuskegee Airmen of World War II.

Kerrey, now president of the New School University in New York City, said war is likely, unless “dictator Saddam Hussein” does in the next 12 days what he has refused to do in the last 12 years – disarm.

If war becomes necessary, America will come together to support its troops, Kerrey said.

“It is not for oil,” he said. “It is not for property. It is not for glory. It is for the freedom of others who have suffered mightily.”

You don’t see a lot of university presidents taking that kind of position. My wife, an alumna of the New School, is proud of him.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Here’s more rally information, including plans for rallies in Atlanta and Philadelphia next weekend. Talk radio definitely seems to be providing the organizational infrastructure for these.