Peaceful but determined protestors meet heavy security when Bush comes to Kingsmill on the James to woo House Democrats.

It was noon on Feb. 3. Police stood between the demonstrators and the U.S. Presidential motorcade soon to exit from a private, mid-morning meeting between Bush and Democrats from the House of Representatives, whom demonstrators vowed to hold to their election-day mandate to defuse the war in Iraq.

"A patriot is mocked, scorned and hated; yet when his cause succeeds, all men will join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.� — Mark Twain