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| Surprise! There's gonna be an antiwar protest in Washington... |
| 2002-10-26 |
| Protesters hope as many as 100,000 people will converge on the U.S. capital on Saturday to demonstrate against a possible U.S. attack on Iraq. Demonstrators from as far as Chicago and Minnesota will come to Washington, many by bus, to gather by the Vietnam war memorial on the Mall and then march to the White House. Speakers will include civil rights leader Jesse Jackson. "This is going to be an ugly, unnecessary fight. Most of the world is saying no to it," Jackson told reporters. "Preemptive one-bullet diplomacy, we cannot resort to that." "We should just give them money. I have some friends who can handle the deal for you..." A tandem demonstration — expected to be equal in size to the gathering in the nation's capital — will take place in San Francisco on Saturday. In San Francisco, is it? Well, they've never done anything like that there before... Have they? "There is incredible momentum against (President George W. ) Bush, that will culminate in a massive outpouring that we hope will be big enough to challenge and stop war plans against Iraq," said Tony Murphy, one of the protest's organizers. "This has the potential to be as strong a movement as that against the Vietnam war in the 1960s," he said, "I mean, like, this could be really big! We could be on the teevee and everything!" Hours before the march in Washington was due to start, several thousand protesters were assembling on the National Mall. Some carried signs reading: "No Proof, No War," "Bush Sucks" and "Sacrifice Oil for Justice." How about "They only kill each other"? How about "We don't care what happens in an obscure country on the other side of the world"? How about "No Justice, No Peace, No Sense"? |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #4 How about "No 20,000$ payments for suicide bombers", "The UN is for cheese eating surender monkeys", or "Invade 3 countries and your out". I hope game 6 will keep as many San Franciscans off the streets as game 5 did. |
| Posted by: PJ 2002-10-26 20:54:56 |
| #3 Wait, here's more signs: "MAKE NUKES NOT WAR"."WE DEMAND PEACE IN OUR TIME"."NO PROOF, NO WAR, SO LET'S BOMB NORTH KOREA." |
| Posted by: El Id 2002-10-26 20:24:40 |
| #2 BBC site shows one zombie with a sign STOP BUSH & SADDAM - SUPPORT IRAQ OPPOSITION.In that spirit,here are some new slogans for the protesters:NO WAR - WE WANT A RECOUNT IN BAGHDAD.THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON POT.DICTATORS ARE PEOPLE TOO.SACRIFICE KURDS FOR JUSTICE.IRAQ WILL LICK BUSH;-) |
| Posted by: El Id 2002-10-26 19:19:03 |
| #1 So Jesse says "This is going to be an ugly, unnecessary fight", hmmm. I remember before US-Iraq war part One, Jesse and his peaceniks declaired with certainty that it would be a Viet-Nam style bloodbath trying to fight those tough, battle-hardened, veteran Republican Guards. And that going into Afghanistan would be insane - we'd have no chance against an enemy that had utterly defeated the entire Russian army. Sigh. I wonder how someone can be so wrong, so often, and still not learn a damn thing?!? |
| Posted by: Aracona 2002-10-26 14:30:27 |