Anti-war protesters arrested at Pelosi’s office

From TheHill.com:
Four members of the anti-war group Code Pink were arrested outside the office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) Thursday afternoon, following an announcement that they would seek to take over the office.

The group’s members had planned to hold a symbolic “Pin the war on the Donkey” demonstration at Pelosi’s office to show their frustration with the Democratic leadership’s inaction on ending the war in Iraq.

However, Capitol Police prevented the taping of a drawn donkey to the wall.

Code Pink members were crying outside Pelosi’s office. When asked why, Rae Abileah, 24, said she was crying out of “outrage that this is all we can get from the Democrats,” referring to the Iraq supplemental funding bill, scheduled for a vote Friday.

“We’re just heartbroken that Nancy Pelosi has decided to keep funding George Bush’s war, and now the war belongs to the Democrats as well as the Republicans,” said Code Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin. “We thought we were going to get a change when they came into power.”

I have been saying this since the blog opened its doors following the 2006 mid-term elections. Anybody who thinks or thought, that once the Democrats took control of congress we would see an automatic withdrawal from Iraq, is crazy. Furthermore any one who says money is the answer to end this war is also crazy. The only answer to this war is success, and that may take longer than anybody expects however we must achieve it and I applaud the democratic leadership for standing strong against those in their party who would like to use the power of the purse to get the troops home, that would make America look more divided then ever.

What do you think?