Thousands join anti-war march to Pentagon
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WASHINGTON, March 17 Thousands joined a demonstration in Washington Saturday against the Iraq War while a much smaller group protested the protesters.The anti-war march from the Lincoln Memorial to the Pentagon followed the route of a 1967 march against the Vietnam War, the Washington Post reported. The crowd included families, high school students, veterans and veterans of the 1960s anti-war movement.It's something we are passionate about, said Kim Ashby, who came to Washington with other students from the Springside School in Philadelphia. We wanted people at our school to know that you are able to be an activist as a young person. You don't have to wait until college.The marchers took an hour to cross the bridge over the Potomac River to Virginia.Near Arlington National Cemetery, a group waiting for the march held up a banner that said: Go to hell traitors. You dishonor our dead on hallowed ground.While the march was largely peaceful and police kept the two groups separate, there were some arrests at the Pentagon when some protesters refused to return to the area set aside for the march.Counter-protesters guarded the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, saying they were afraid the anti-war group would try to vandalize it.Copyright 2007 by UPI
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protestors are trying to wake you from your determined ignorance
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Donemytime Mike ,
Sun, 18 Mar 2007 14:38:43 GMT
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War is a meaningless way to waste lives. Especially war begun under false pretenses, as this one was. Especially warring for a nation that tortures, banishes civil liberties and human rights, as this one does.
You have one life to live, and there is no heaven, especially for those who kill and rape, as American soldiers do.
I remind you that March 16th was the anniversary of My Lai, where soldiers ginned down 300 men, women, children, infants in a peasant village we invaded, just as we invaded Iraq.
No weapons of mass destruction except our own, no intent to develop nuclear weapons except our own, including our use of radioactive materials fo shell casings, mo relationship with Al-Quaeda - our own president has a far closer relationship, having been in business with the Bin Laden Family.
Could that have anything to do with the red herrings of war - invading two nations and threatening others with imminent invasion, rather than actually putting comparable effort into finding and prosecuting those who acted without the support of any nation's populace in their suicide attacks on NYC?
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Counter-counter-protestors
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Jimbo Jones ,
Sun, 18 Mar 2007 03:15:35 GMT
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A stark contrast from this article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/17/AR2007031701280.html
Which advocates for the "silent majority" of the counter-protestors. Last I checked, 30% isn't a majority. And if they're silent, why don't they STFU?
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