I'm for putting the heat on all Members of Congress, 'Zak,' with special emphasis on any wavering supporters of Bush's 'surge,' Dems or GOP.

So, generally speaking, 'Right On!' to these protests. I especially liked the SDS kids in NYC going after the recruiters in NYC a few days ago, with a number of arrests ensuing.

But some aren't too nuanced in how they go about this, and like to use, even if they don't know it's origins, a favored tactic of the late 1920s-early 1930s 'third period' Comintern, ie, aim the main blow at the left and liberal 'conciliators' of 'the main social prop' (Bush's critics in Congress) of the imperialist enemy.

(You can read all about it in R Palme Dutt's 'Fascism and Social Revolution,' if you can find it.)

It didn't work too well back then (to say the least) in preventing Hitler's rise, but the American left was never too big on studying anything, let alone a bunch of old Comintern documents...