Nice flash animation from MoveOn.

"As George Packer wrote in the New York Times Magazine on Sunday, "If you're a liberal ... why is there no anti-war movement that you'd want to join?"

One might have finally appeared Wednesday, when many of the pillars of progressive politics in America announced they were banding together to oppose a preemptive, unilateral war on Iraq. The Win Without War coalition includes the National Council of Churches, NOW, NAACP, the Sierra Club, MoveOn, Working Assets, Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities, Physicians for Social Responsibly and Veterans for Common Sense. Taken together, these groups represent a vast swath of America -- the National Council of Churches alone indirectly represents 50 million congregants -- and they aim to channel their millions of members into antiwar activism. "

A Salon update on the steadily coalescing anti-war movement - one that represents the more mainstream values on the left: that Saddam is a danger who must be disarmed, but only with multilateral support.  Now I'm sure those on the right will find some reason to pick them apart - because if they're against war, they must be either godless commies, closeted islamists or sausage-fingered anti-semites - but I suspect the right may have to face up to the fact that there is an emerging mainstream anti-war movement that must be reckoned with rather than ridiculed.  This is not the fringe, this is mainstream America.

Just thought I'd provide another pointer to the prolific bloggetry of my former college roomate, John-Paul Pagano.  At the urging of my lazy news-aggregating habit, he has implemented an XML feed, and added some extra fanciness to his blog, including some essays and comments!

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