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Title: Thousands march to Pentagon to protest Iraq war
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Published: Mar 17, 2007
Author: Caren Bohan
Post Date: 2007-03-17 15:28:05 by robin
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Views: 544
Comments: 19
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Thousands of anti-war demonstrators, some carrying yellow and black signs reading "U.S. out of Iraq now!" marched towards the Pentagon on Saturday, one of a number of protests held or planned around the country and the world. The march, on a cold and cloudy St. Patrick's Day, comes just before the fourth anniversary of the start of the Iraq war on Tuesday and 40 years after a similar protest at the Pentagon over the Vietnam Var. The march began near the Vietnam War Memorial, just a few blocks from the White House, and proceeded across the Potomac River towards the Pentagon. One sign near the front read, "The worst tyrants ever: Napoleon, Hitler and Bush." Frustration over the Iraq war cost President George W. Bush's Republicans control of Congress in elections last year and is the main reason his poll numbers are stuck near 30 percent, the lowest of his presidency. Bush also faces other problems, including complaints of poor health care for U.S. veterans, the perjury conviction of a former top aide to U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney and an uproar over the firing of U.S. prosecutors that has prompted calls for the ouster of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. Bush unveiled a plan in January to send 21,500 additional troops to Iraq, further stoking anger over the war. The number of extra troops being sent has climbed to around 30,000 with the addition of support troops. His plan aims to quell violence in Baghdad and the western province of Anbar. The march marked the latest protest in Washington against the war in which more than 3,200 U.S. troops have died. On January 27, tens of thousands of protesters gathered in front of the U.S. Capitol to pressure the U.S. government to get out of Iraq. Police reported that about two dozen protesters had been arrested late on Friday night in front of the White House. Bush had already left for the Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland, where he is spending the weekend. Several hundred supporters of the war held their own nearby counter-demonstration and carried signs stating: "Win the war or lose to jihad," "Our troops are shedding their blood to keep terrorists from America," and "St. Patrick: Drive the Democrats from our land." Organisers of the protest march said the turnout had been hurt by a winter snow storm on Friday that moved up the East Coast from Washington into New England, disrupting travel. Police in Los Angeles said they were expecting 5,000-10,000 protesters to turn out for an anti-war rally there, while other demonstrations were planned in Austin, Texas. Protests were also staged or planned in Australia, Britain, and Canada. Democrats in Congress are wrestling with legislation to set deadlines on the U.S. military presence in Iraq. A proposal to be debated soon in the House of Representatives would tie approval of $124 billion in emergency war funds to a troop pullout by September 2008. Warning that a U.S. withdrawal would worsen the violence in Iraq, Bush has labelled such proposals an attempt by lawmakers to "micromanage" the war and has threatened a veto. "The consequences of imposing such an artificial timetable would be disastrous," Bush said in his weekly radio address on Saturday. (Additional reporting by Nicola Groom in Los Angeles) Reuters (IDS)
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#1. To: robin (#0)
Scant or no coverage on the Jew tube I'll wager.
Interesting that when we had troops halfway around the globe fighting cxommunism in south east Asia, the jew tube couldn't cover the protests enough, but now that we have troops halfway across the globe destroying moslem countries, they can't ignore the protests enough.
Without question the combination of sound and moving imagery delivered by Jew tube or on a big screen are the most powerful thought control tools ever devised. Supplementation by print media, radio programming, billboard advertisements and heavily armed police state indoctrination camp instruction serves to buttress Jew tube/big screen thought control messages.
"This pro-war group, "Gathering of Eagles" (gotta love these group names - they reek of Madison Avenue) are a bunch of loser pro war fascists, who hate pacifists looking for diplomatic solutions rather than Shock and Awe. "Gathering of Eagles" are financed, mobilized and frothing at the mouth by the ultra fascist pro military industrial complex group America First Foundation Inc. (AFF). AFF should be renamed to reflect it's true mission. Anti-American - Fascism First Foundation would be closer to what they are trying to accomplish. AFF took a very active roll to mobilize, finance and provide travel to counter demonstration groups to disrupt Cindy Sheehan's gatherings down in Texas during the vacations of gwbu$$h. AFF mobilizes fascist pro war veterans groups if/when there is an anti Iraq/Iran protest in Washington DC by winding these pro war groups up and frothing at the mouth by fallaciously telling the pro war groups that the antiwar groups intended to vandalize and desecrate the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. The pro war fascist veterans groups much go to the nations capitol to defend the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial black granite and the names inscribed from the pinko commie pick axes, sledgehammers, and chisels."
The Gathering of Eagles is described as "an act of love by thousands of veterans (and friends) who choose to honor the sacrifice of the fallen by guarding the memorials from those who would desecrate them on March 17th in a so-called "peaceful" anti-war rally in Washington, D.C." It is also a call to action for every American Patriot to stand and say "No More!" and "Never Again!" to those who would spit on our veterans and troops, and ridicule their service to our nation. [...]In conjunction with the Gathering Of Eagles, Move America Forward is staging a cross country caravan, adding additional Patriots as the route winds from San Francisco to Washington, arriving in Washington D.C. thousands strong to merge with the Gathering Of Eagles. To learn more about how you can be part of this historic cross country trek for Freedom, and in honor of our military, please also see http://www.MoveAmericaForward.org. MoveAmericaForward is another not so subtle reference to the Kadima Party.
#15. To: Eoghan (#14)
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U.S. Marine Cpl. Cloy Richards (L) of the group Iraq Veterans Against the War stands near a flag-draped casket decorated with the boots, dog tags and a photo of Alexander Arrendondo, a fellow Marine who was killed in the war in Iraq, as protesters against the war in Iraq gather for the March on the Pentagon in Washington, March 17, 2007. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst (UNITED STATES)
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#4. To: Splitends (#1)
Scant or no coverage on the Jew tube I'll wager.
#9. To: Critter (#4)
#13. To: Splitends (#9)
http://winterpatriot.blogspot.com/2007/03/peaceful-protesters-threatened-and.html
#14. To: angle (#13)
The use of 'threats to war memorials' was a flop to 'rally the thousands' to DC...
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