Posted on 09/24/2005 2:42:31 PM PDT by Cincinna
Opponents of the war in Iraq marched Saturday in a clamorous day of protest, song and remembrance of the dead, some showing surprisingly diverse political views even as they spoke with one loud voice in wanting U.S. troops home.
The surging crowd, shouting "Bush out now" and "Peace now," marched in front of the White House and then to the Washington Monument in an 11-hour marathon of dissent.
They were young people with green hair, nuns whose anti-war activism dates to Vietnam, parents mourning their children in uniform lost in Iraq, and uncountable families motivated for the first time to protest.
President Bush himself was out of town, monitoring hurricane recovery efforts from Colorado and Texas. The protesters shouted for his impeachment.
"Bush Lied, Thousands Died," said one sign. "End the Occupation," said another.
Police Chief Charles H. Ramsey, noting that organizers had hoped to draw 100,000 people, said, "I think they probably did
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You're right. Sounds like it was a bunch of radical lefties yapping about their individual "causes".
from Gateway Pundit:
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2005/09/waiting-on-ramsey-clark.html
Waiting on Ramsey Clark!
Well, the Jew-hater just got off stage on CSPAN. (I thought this was an Anti-Iraq War Rally? Hmm...)
...The announcer just asked for Barbara to meet her friend at the "Socialist Liberation Tent"...
Alexis Deveaux is reading her poetry, now. "Even the fish will chant, beware of the chickens who come home to roost (?)..."
Gloria la Riva the Leader of the "Cuban 5" Freedom Movement is now celebrating the Atlanta Court's reversal of their sentences because there was too much Anti-Castro bias in Florida where they were sentenced.
MAS Freedom Foundation speaker (Mahdi Bray) is now up, representing the Muslim American Society and Freedom Foundation. Esam Omeish the president of the MAS group is now up.
A woman was on stage a bit ago talking about her meeting with Hugo Chavez in New York City last week and what a rush that was.
Next Arab speaker is from the National Council of Arab Americans (check out the link I've added and look whose book they are promoting!) says he lives in a society of fear, blah, blah,...
I thought this was going to be an Anti-Iraq War Rally but it's just a hodgepodge of extreme leftist groups taking turns at a microphone.
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Go here and rate the story as low as possible
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9463993/
My eyes! My eyes! You should have posted a warning with your MSNBC link. That is a scarey pic that pops up!
100,000? I have yet to see a photo that even looks like 1,000! Farrakhan math tutoring in action.....
The Commie MSM needs to give up on this one. Americans aren't buying the DNC's, "I'm a Republican who voted for Bush" BS anymore.
I just gave it 1/2 a star. The photo of the "Raging Grannies" was too much for me.
We are being hampered in conducting a successful foreign policy, one that will protect our country and the rest of the World from radical Islam. We are being hampered by leftist fools such as these who insist they are right and everyone else is wrong, who insist that they are the only persons in the World with a moral position. I have listened to these fools for forty years now. I sincerely wish they would get wise to the fact that they are not as smart or as moral as they think they are.
FSTV (Flaming Sedition TV/Foreign Subversion TV) is covering another demonstration over by the Washington Monument. This one is called "Operation Ceasefire." Steve Earle, the moonbat entertainer, is performing (and very badly, I might add). The audience seems to be the same motley collection of old hippies, fat ugly white women, angry blacks who don't know what they're angry about, people of indeterminate sexual identification, and college students looking to score drugs that were at the earlier demonstration, the one that petered out due to lack of interest.
Somebody named Amy Goodman (or something like that) was interviewing some fool with an Afro who looks like he just woke up from his 1970's nap. She mentioned a crowd of "hundreds of thousands," but if there were that many I didn't see them in the camera shots. Looks like about the same number as the earlier demonstration.
Wile E. Coyote ordered something from Acme, and as usual it didn't work the way he thought it would.
I would pray that these fools keep using Galloway as a hero. It's like when they were singing the praises of Chairman Mao 35 years ago. They take some idiot who happens to be the enemy of their enemy, and then put them on a pedastal. Then when we knock them off the pedastal, the liberals are exposed.
In other news, that same boy cried wolf again today.
Bin Ladin sends his best to his allies.
Bin Ladin sends his best to his allies.
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That includes Clinton.
It's Saturday afternoon. No one is watching C-Span except Freepers.
Nothing surprisingly diverse about the Anti-America protesters, they all hate America.
Or, I support the troops but oppose the war crapola.
The usual collection of Marxists, unwashed hippies, conspiracy theorists, and anti-American fifth columnists.
If that crowd numbered 100K, they counted it three times!
TRANSLATION: "They were all hate-spewing, conspiracy mongering, left-wing nutcases, but we in the MSM will be pretending they 'looked like America'."
It's the same old, same old. Green hair and Aging Commies.
I'll bet a good number of them have been turning out at demonstrations for the last forty years.
Some of us freepers don't even watch C-span, when they are showing the "enemy of Americans" on their station...
That Ramsey guy must have taken math classes in the public schools...
It's like P.T. Barnum said ..... a new sucker is born every day.
Why doesn't the MSM call it what it is? An ANSWER rally orchestrated by a bunch of jew-haters (plus a few confused hippies).
My own little review: I jogged all over the place today and saw most of the crowd milling about around the white house and wash monument. Been in town for some years and of all the anti war protests, this was the most diverse and peacefull group I've seen. Not all green hairs this time, but lots of mom and pops with their kids at this one. This was almost like a july 4th celebration on the Mall with many carrying the US flag. This protest has grabbed a wide range of folks this time.
A "bazaar of causes" eh? The MSM will subject themselves to muttering opaque analogies, senseless sentences, ANYTHING but clearly stating what ACTUALLY links the disparate groups in this coalition: Stalinist or Maoist totalitarian extremism and support for war-mongering, terroristic left-wing insurgencies and left-wing dictatorships world-wide.
For all of you liberal boobs complaining about the war in IRAQ..now hear this: These people signed up to go ..there is no draft and they volunteered to fight in the War on Terror.
Stop trying to emotionalize everything.
"Not all green hairs this time, but lots of mom and pops with their kids at this one. This was almost like a july 4th celebration on the Mall with many carrying the US flag."
So there were some seemingly normal people interspersed with the moonbats. Even normal people will slow down to stare at a wreck.
The thing to remember about these Al Qaeda Support Group rallies is that they would still be held EVEN IF THERE WAS NO WAR IN IRAQ. This is nothing but sore loser, DNC garbage being staged by their useful idiots. It’s tough when you can’t win elections. The DNC knows that they can throw a couple of "celebrities" into the mix at these Al Qaeda pep rallies and their useful idiots will stay happy and motivated.
More pictures!
An embaressment of Castro & Omar beards, male
ponytails, and long haired hippie creatures,
letting their *freak* flags fly....;oD
I had to ask myself "why"?
Somebody needs to buy these stuck in the 60's fools
a clue...Now that would be a program worth paying for.
HAH!
Nice picture! Their all assh**les. I for one am in Jacksonville, North Carolina as I type waiting to go to dinner with a bunch of Marines who arrived back to the States today!
"...nuns whose anti-war activism dates to Vietnam..."
Oh please! Is that supposed to give credibility to this cause? A few lesbians out of step with their country AND their church's teachings, have had nothing better to do for the last 40 years.
I,m glad that President Bush was out in Texas being Presidential and taking care of Hurricane Relief.
Although I did drop in to C-SPAN a couple of times, I watched a great Presidents Cup golf tournament, it's all tied up going into the final day. Tomorrow it's 12 against 12 for all the glory. [:>)
Much better viewing BTW.
Perhaps you saw a lot of people attending the book faire too?
The "postie" lie in the story is the one that went "for the first time" ~ all these people were long-time, die-hard, anti-American Islamofascists and Stalinists.
Sorry it's so blurry, I was shaking
Just got back!
What a time!!!!!
You're quick!!!
BTW, loved the bullhorn/mp3!
Here's an overhead shot from Reuters AlertNet. Anyone care to guess?
Gee! Didn't that place burn down?
:o)
Tell us about the bullhorm!
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