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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rollcast... who wrote (2662)	1/21/2003 2:01:59 AM
From: Rainy_Day_Woman	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 25898

you know I read this thread and I am struck, shocked, by the numbers of America haters like America is the WORST country in the world it amazes me they post under the very democracy and freedoms America provides them they live under one of the very highest standards of living in the world some of my family stayed in communist Europe - letters 'snuck' out, whispers when they wanted to talk bout the regime, poor standard of living, poor wage, poor medical care, struggling for food - mail and packages robbed - no voting, no say I can honestly say some people here have no clue

To: Rollcast... who wrote (2662)	1/21/2003 3:48:46 AM
From: XBrit	Respond to of 25898

<<The corps of protestors here, just like everywhere else, are the same quasi rads that will protest any action the US has taken or will take>> Message 18462728

To: Rollcast... who wrote (2662)	1/21/2003 5:49:42 AM
From: Mao II	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

You are flat out wrong. From AP: Iraq War Protest in Washington, D.C. Draws Huge Crowd Mon Jan 20, 9:39 AM ET Add World - OneWorld.net to My Yahoo! Alison Raphael,OneWorld U.S. WASHINGTON, D.C., Jan 19 (OW-US) - A crowd estimated at over 100,000 turned out on the streets of Washington, D.C. Saturday to take part in the largest of a series of rallies held in United States and European cities against the prospect of a war with Iraq. • Global Exchange • Antiwar.com • Independent Media Center • OneWorld on Iraq Supported by Cable & Wireless Bearing signs and shouting slogans near the U.S. Capitol, the demonstrators--including families, war veterans, students, and the elderly--listened to prominent activists invoke the legacy of murdered civil-rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, whose birthday will be celebrated Monday. If Dr. King were here today, said Reverend Al Sharpton, he'd be saying "Give peace a chance." Actress Jessica Lange reminded the crowd of the words of former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, who once said "We will not learn how to live in peace by killing each other's children." "As a parent," added Lange, "I am determined not to pass on a legacy of bloodshed to my children." The Washington protest coincided with peace rallies in a number of other major cities in the U.S.--including San Francisco, California, and Portland, Oregon--and Europe, indicating a growing tide of opposition to a U.S.-led offensive against Iraq. While U.S. polls released Saturday by Time and Newsweek found that President George W. Bush (news - web sites)'s approval rating has dropped into the low 50s for the first time since the September 11 2001 attacks, a public opinion survey in France, where protests were also mounted, revealed that 82 percent of the population is against an attack. U.S. officials have insisted that no decision has yet been made on military action against Iraq. Nor has Washington decided whether to ask the United Nations (news - web sites) Security Council for explicit authorization for such action. Under a Council resolution authorizing weapons inspections and approved unanimously November 8, Washington agreed to meet with the Council before taking action. The build-up of tens of thousands of U.S. troops in the Gulf region during recent weeks prompted a wide range of concerns among protesters. While some carried colorful signs reading "No Blood for Oil"--reflecting the widely held view that Iraq has been targeted in large part because of its considerable oil reserves--others were worried about the prospect of a national draft. "This war could affect me personally," said St. Mary's College sophomore Bennett Shields. "I don't want to get drafted and fight for a cause I don't believe in. It's things like this posturing against Iraq that make people fly planes into U.S. buildings." Also among the protesters were Mexican farm workers protesting the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and veterans of the Vietnam and previous Gulf conflicts. Roger Park-Cunningham, a New York-based social worker for war veterans and a veteran himself, said he was in Washington "To stop this war before it begins because I see from my work that war never ends." The demonstration, which included a three-hour rally at the Capitol followed by a march on the Navy Yard, was the first of several events planned for the weekend. Youth and students were to rally in front of the White House Sunday, and the D.C.-based religious coalition Black Voices for Peace is sponsoring events in support of peace and racial and economic justice. Further protests are planned for January 28, to coincide with the State of the Union address. Estimates of the size of the Capitol crowd varied widely, but Washington, D.C. police chief Terence W. Gainer acknowledged that the protest was larger than a similar anti-war mobilization last October, and called the turn-out "impressive." This weekend's protests come in advance of a formal report to the Security Council on the findings of a UN inspection team which has resumed a search, aborted in 1998, for evidence of programs to develop weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear capability. In an interim statement issued January 9, after six weeks of searches, chief arms inspector Hans Blix announced that there had been no evidence of a "smoking gun". M2