Chuck, I think you just have mobilization envy. Anarchists alone couldn't have gotten that many people together-- Seattle was certainly less than 100,000 by most estimates I've seen. I agree with you in the sense that it is sad that it takes a popular-frontist Marcyite Stalinist group like the WWP to organize large protests. But what is equally sad is the fact that anarchists aid the bourgeoisie in creating a hole in serious, level-headed leadership for leftists. Is it any wonder that the so-called "anti-war movement" is now lead by Marcyite Stalinists?
Once again, I'd love to see Chuck doing more than criticizing what actually exists, taking the anarcho-punk "too cool for Foghat" approach. Why doesn't he do some serious analysis of why bourgeois anti-imperialism is, for so many now, the name of the game?
It was also funny to watch, from the other angle, as Dennis Perrin, a Democratic Party liberal from what I can see, criticized the march in a similar manner, though along more pragmatic lines: i.e., neither this march nor anything like it will stop the war. As usual, it takes the more conservative folks to point out the glaring holes in the left/liberal idealists' "logic," so strictly along those lines, he is actually correct, albeit for mistaken reasons.
Capitalism necessitates war; this war becomes more and more constant as the bourgeois desperately looks for ways to buttress itself. The only "way out," then, would be to depose the capitalist class itself. We can discuss and argue on how this can be done.
Apart from that there are several minimal programs which could hurt the war effort. For instance, in order to prevent further arms mobilization in Iraq is for workers in weapons factories to refuse to produce them, and transport and dock workers refusing to ship them. Additionally, the workers in the armed forces would have to refuse, along class lines, and along the fact that they too are going to be commodified as inexpensive weapons, to go abroad. But only when capitalist production grinds to a screeching halt will these wars be stopped.
For socialism, David