(CNSNews.com) - "Say No to Iraq Escalation!" That's what riled-up liberals will be shouting in Washington on Friday, outside the think tank where Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) will deliver speeches endorsing President Bush's reported plan to order extra troops to Iraq.

"Our plan is to rally outside and say, 'No' to escalation," MoveOn.org said in a message to supporters. The liberal advocacy group insists that the new Democrat-controlled Congress was elected with a grassroots mandate to get American troops out of Iraq.

President Bush is expected to announce next week that he will send more U.S. troops (15,000 to 20,000, according to some press reports) to calm the sectarian violence in Baghdad.

MoveOn's "peaceful picket" outside the American Enterprise Institute is talking place at noon, and the group promised that "colorful signs will be provided."

"It is important that while these senators (McCain and Lieberman) endorse escalation, there is a visible demonstration of public opposition to escalation," the news release said. "We have to send a signal that escalation should be off the table. This event will accomplish that -- and it will mark the beginning of a revived MoveOn campaign to end the war."

And finally this: "Media are coming, so the more people who attend the better."

Anti-war, anti-Bush activist Cindy Sheehan has led noisy protests against congressional Democrats for the past two days in Washington.

She and other anti-warriors insist they won't give Democrats a "free pass" when it comes to bringing the troops home now. They want the new Congress to stop funding for the war -- and they are demanding the impeachment of President Bush.

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