100,000 Rally against Iraq war

[WoodPeckr]

Huge rally against Iraq war

Saturday, September 24, 2005; Posted: 6:49 p.m. EDT (22:49 GMT)

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Crowds opposed to the war in Iraq surged past the White House on Saturday, shouting "Peace now" in the largest anti-war protest in the nation's capital since the U.S. invasion.

The rally stretched through the day and into the night, a marathon of music, speechmaking and dissent on the National Mall.

Police Chief Charles H. Ramsey, noting that organizers had hoped to draw 100,000 people, said, "I think they probably hit that."

Speakers from the stage attacked President Bush's policies head on, but he was not at the White House to hear it. He spent the day in Colorado and Texas, monitoring hurricane recovery.....

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/24/antiwar.ap/index.html

 

[Truncador]

It is a credit to the forces of social progress unleashed by the Administration that the dregs and beasts of the people, fully mobilized, number only one hundred thousand in a nation of three hundred millions. The primitive solidarities of the stupid herd, by and large, have been destroyed, freeing up its rabble and cattle to evolve into citizens and men, members of a glorious State rendered truly invincible by their incorporation. The seditionists and fifth-columnists dream of a united people smashing the State- only to find that the State is now the principle and embodiment of the unity of this people, which in turn is now and forever more the State's chief pillar of support, and never the battering-ram of demagogues and the forces of lawlessness.

 

[Ranger68]

Wow.
I've never laughed so hard in my life.
Trunc, do you ever get a bad taste from so much diarrhea in your mouth?

 

[Truncador]

Wow.
I've never laughed so hard in my life.

Well, at least you got something out of reading it then.

 

[Don]

Isn't the "war" over? How can you march against something that is already over? Shouldn't it be a rally against Iraqi Occupation?

 

[Mcluhan]

so much effort...so little value

Wow.
I've never laughed so hard in my life.
Trunc, do you ever get a bad taste from so much diarrhea in your mouth?

What did it say? It's like reading a bad music score.. I switched it off after the second sour note.

 

[Asterix]

What did it say? It's like reading a bad music score.. I switched it off after the second sour note.

Actually, it was more like listening to bad Wagner.

 

[WoodPeckr]

Isn't the "war" over? How can you march against something that is already over? Shouldn't it be a rally against Iraqi Occupation?

Does it look like the war is over???
Has peace, security and stability returned or has that feared regional civil war started?
From the recent Saudi rebuke of present Bush Iraqi war policy it looks like the Saudi's fear the ongoing Iraqi conflict will spill over into Saudi Arabia. It seems the kingdom of Saudi Arabia wants nothing to do with Team 'W's spreading of Democracy....in fact they fear it.

 

[Truncador]

It's like reading a bad music score.

Actually, it was more like listening to bad Wagner

Now I finally know why it's so hard to reason with liberals: they process words as musical notes. It's often been sugested that liberalism is a symptom of severe cognitive dysfunction, but even I never thought the underlying pathology was that severe.

 

[langeweile]

Now I finally know why it's so hard to reason with liberals: they process words as musical notes. It's often been sugested that liberalism is a symptom of severe cognitive dysfunction, but even I never thought the underlying pathology was that severe.

It so obvious even I get this one...

 

[Mcluhan]

All noise and distortion.. no music

It so obvious even I get this one...

That's because it was framed as hyperbole, the wavelength common to both of you.

 

[Ranger68]

Well, at least you got something out of reading it then.

Yeah. ...
Not really.

 

[Ranger68]

It so obvious even I get this one...

Hey, Lang, your ebonics is getting better.
Keep up the good work.

 

[WoodPeckr]

400 Support the Shrub in DC Counter Protest

So, where's the rally for those supporting the war.
POTUS43 has always been what
he is today. A wretched son with a famous name.

Here's 400 hearty GOPers who support our Shrub's Iraqi Debacle!

Hundreds Rally in D.C. for U.S. Troops

WASHINGTON - Support for U.S. troops fighting abroad mixed with anger toward anti-war demonstrators at home as hundreds of people, far fewer than organizers had expected, rallied Sunday on the National Mall just a day after tens of thousands protested against the war in
Iraq.

"No matter what your ideals are, our sons and daughters are fighting for our freedom," said Marilyn Faatz, who drove from New Jersey to attend the rally. "We are making a mockery out of this. And we need to stand united, but we are not."

About 400 people gathered near a stage on an eastern segment of the mall, a large patchwork American flag serving as a backdrop. Amid banners and signs proclaiming support for U.S. troops, several speakers hailed the effort to bring democracy to Iraq and
Afghanistan and denounced those who protest it.

Many demonstrators focused their ire at Cindy Sheehan, the California woman whose protest near
President Bush's Texas home last summer galvanized the anti-war movement. Sheehan was among the speakers at Saturday's rally near the Washington Monument on the western part of the mall, an event that attracted an estimated 100,000 people.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050925...bdgrv.s0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3ODdxdHBhBHNlYwM5NjQ-

Wonder if otb was there?......

 

[Asterix]

Here's 400 hearty GOPers who support our Shrub's Iraqi Debacle!

Rove must be slipping. You'd think he could have dug up a few more of the party faithful to flesh out the crowd.