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Politics : Attack Iraq? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (3664)	2/12/2003 1:19:37 PM
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LOL You didn't hear about their cousin... Lo Bin lien? Message 18568597

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (3664)	2/12/2003 1:21:17 PM
From: sandintoes	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8683

Scum bags... Millions Expected for Global Iraq Peace Protests By Jeremy Lovell LONDON (Reuters) - Millions of people are expected to march for peace in Iraq Saturday in what organizers say could be the world's biggest anti-war protest. From Antarctica to Reykjavik, demonstrations against the looming war in Iraq are planned in more than 350 town and cities by people from all walks of life and all ethnic groups. London is expecting at least 500,000 marchers in what the organizers say will be a major blow to hawkish Prime Minister Tony Blair (news - web sites) -- President Bush (news - web sites)'s strongest supporter in his campaign to force Iraqi disarmament. "We expect Saturday's demonstration to be the biggest ever in British political history," Andrew Murray, head of the British Stop The War coalition, said Wednesday. "The British population do not consent to this war." Organizers in Rome are expecting more than 500,000 people to march through the city as the anti-war demonstration brings together trade unionists, center-left political parties, anti-globalization groups and ordinary citizens. In Russia a series of demonstrations are planned on Saturday, as they are across the United States and Australia. Organizers of a peace march in San Francisco say they expect more than 100,000 to converge on the city Sunday. In South Africa, where President Thabo Mbeki and former president Nelson Mandela have both spoken out strongly against any Iraq war, a series of demonstrations are planned. Even in traditionally neutral Switzerland a series of protests are planned under the slogan "No to war in Iraq -- No blood for oil!" In Dublin, anti-war demonstration organizers expect upwards of 20,000 people to take part in a march through the city. WORLD PEACE MOVEMENT But the event in London, which organizers pledge will be peaceful despite fears it could be disrupted by anti-Israeli demonstrators, will be pivotal in the world peace movement. Jeremy Corbyn, prominent maverick in Blair's ruling Labor Party, said the key speaker at the rally would be American anti-war campaigner Jesse Jackson. "He is coming specially because opinion polls show that if Britain backs out of the war the American public will also stop supporting it," he told a news conference. Blair, who has unflinchingly supported Bush since the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington, has seen his popularity plunge in successive opinion polls. As London and Washington have poured troops and armor into the Gulf, insisting that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) was concealing weapons of mass destruction, they have been suffered a series of blunders over dubious intelligence reports. Iraq insists it has no banned arms. Britain's Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament has already filed legal papers threatening to take Blair and Defense Secretary Geoff Hoon to the International Criminal Court in the Hague (news - web sites) for crimes against humanity if the war goes ahead. The Washington/London war axis is also facing mounting resistance from fellow United Nations (news - web sites) Security Council permanent members Russia, France and China who argue there is no proof of the weapons allegations. They also want more time for U.N. weapons inspectors whose chief Hans Blix is due to give a new progress report to the U.N. on February 14 -- the traditionally romantic Valentine's Day (news - web sites). story.news.yahoo.com