Protestors

Even though we couldn't read any of the signs, there were about 100 Japanese citizens and monks dressed in gold robes protesting outside the base yesterday. The one that was in English said "No More War".It got so bad that they completely blocked the main entrance to the base and had taken up one and a half lanes of the four lane highway right out side. I don't know if this was because of the recent anniversaries of the nuclear bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki or if it was for the on going war in Iraq. I didn't care to ask, but I thought, who protests out in the desert in front of the Al-Qaida? Whose holding signs telling them to stop bombing? Nobody wants to be at war, but don't both sides have to agree to stop?