March 20th Iraq Occupation Protests

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Posted by Matt on Mar-21-2004 04:06:

March 20th Iraq Occupation Protests

Any participants in here?

I was @ the Toronto event which gathered about 8000 in the pouring rain

Heard there was a million marchers in Rome.

Posted by arctic on Mar-21-2004 04:09:

Apparently abut 6000 showed down here (not sure if that was Sydney or Melbourne though). Not huge amount, but considering the amount of publicity it received it was a decent turnout.

Posted by Matt on Mar-21-2004 04:16:

quote:
Originally posted by arctic
Apparently abut 6000 showed down here (not sure if that was Sydney or Melbourne though). Not huge amount, but considering the amount of publicity it received it was a decent turnout.

yeah, it's much more difficult to stage a huge protest like the ones that took place last year, because ending the occupation of Iraq is much more complicated than simply protesting a war like we were February, 2003.

I was just there marching for peace, and it was a great time.

Posted by Palestinian on Mar-21-2004 04:54:

I was at the Toronto one too

Posted by imokruok on Mar-21-2004 05:49:

Rome was the largest, but 1m protesters it was not. The highest legitimate count was 250,000.

Posted by DrUg_Tit0 on Mar-21-2004 11:56:

There were about 10000 protestors here. Quite a lot, but that was because the government is deciding on whether to send our own troops to Iraq or not.

Posted by imokruok on Mar-22-2004 00:54:

Since there's already a March 20th thread, I'll just add the picture here. When conservatives talk about "treasonous" protests, it's perhaps an embellished claim, but always includes some element of truth. This was taken at the San Francisco protest. I don't swear here much, but if this guy had balls, I'd rip them off and stuff them down his fucking throat.

Posted by Matt on Mar-22-2004 01:05:

http://www.pulse24.com/News/Top_Sto...20-008/page.asp

News report from Toronto protest

LOL @ the pro-war protester they interviewed

Posted by rizo on Mar-22-2004 07:24:

quote:
Originally posted by imokruok
Since there's already a March 20th thread, I'll just add the picture here. When conservatives talk about "treasonous" protests, it's perhaps an embellished claim, but always includes some element of truth. This was taken at the San Francisco protest. I don't swear here much, but if this guy had balls, I'd rip them off and stuff them down his fucking throat.

I guess you'll punch the original creator where he got the idea from: http://www.macalester.edu/~wpi/alex.htm

Posted by Ondrayce on Mar-22-2004 08:31:

quote:
Originally posted by Mosaic
http://www.pulse24.com/News/Top_Sto...20-008/page.asp

News report from Toronto protest

LOL @ the pro-war protester they interviewed

I liked the little kid. He seemed really angry too. "SHAME ON BUSH!!!" lol

Posted by DaveSZ on Mar-22-2004 15:16:

quote:
Originally posted by imokruok
Since there's already a March 20th thread, I'll just add the picture here. When conservatives talk about "treasonous" protests, it's perhaps an embellished claim, but always includes some element of truth. This was taken at the San Francisco protest. I don't swear here much, but if this guy had balls, I'd rip them off and stuff them down his fucking throat.

Same (sentiment) here, but...

Iraq still had nothing to do with those towers falling though, and we were misled by our leadership about the urgency of the threat that Saddam posed.

Posted by Yoepus on Mar-22-2004 17:01:

quote:
Originally posted by DaveSZ
Same (sentiment) here, but...

Iraq still had nothing to do with those towers falling though, and we were misled by our leadership about the urgency of the threat that Saddam posed.

But were our leaders misled too?

I think thats the greater travesty.
People being misled, happens all the time. Leaders, thats dangerous.

I'm pissed Conda, and Tenet still have their jobs