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Anti-Bush Protestors Wave Osama Bin Laden Pictures In Argentina
Agencia EFE ^ | Nov. 4, 2005 | Staff

Posted on 11/04/2005 8:47:22 AM PST by Kitten Festival

Mar del Plata, Argentina, Nov 4 (EFE).- A Nobel laureate and a leftist Bolivian presidential candidate - but not, as had been promised, an Argentine soccer icon - led a march of thousands of anti-U.S. protesters through the streets of this seaside resort city Friday, hours before the inauguration of the Summit of the Americas.

Retired athlete Diego Maradona, who had vowed to lead the demonstration to "repudiate" the presence of U.S. President George W. Bush, was in town but did not join the vanguard of the marchers. The explanation provided was that the former captain of the national soccer team was too besieged by admirers to be able to walk unmolested with the throng. The main personalities at the procession's head were Evo Morales, the Socialist, and Indian, front-runner in the Bolivian presidential election set for next month, and Argentina's Adolfo Perez Esquivel, a human rights activist and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1980. Also in the forefront of the demonstration were Argentine and other Latin American labor leaders, as well as representatives of leftist grassroots organizations from throughout the hemisphere. Many wore t-shirts with a stop sign reading "Stop Bush," or one displaying portraits of Che Guevara or Fidel Castro. A few sporting the portrait of Osama bin Laden were also in evidence.

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To: ncountylee

You bet! The coup was led by Abu Bakr and his followers, wounded their president, and held him hostage. They eventually were surrounded and surrendered.


21 posted on 11/04/2005 10:10:45 AM PST by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: Kitten Festival
Ya know, all these protests are going to have the effect of driving the US into isolationism. It's one thing to disagree with our policies, it's another to burn our flag and rally around Osama's picture.

The next time there's an earthquake, ecomomic collapse, or something, America should say, sorry, we can't help.

22 posted on 11/04/2005 10:12:27 AM PST by A Ruckus of Dogs
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To: Kitten Festival
Anti-imperialist sentiment is growing," said Morales. "Not only on the part of social and popular movements, but also among personalities, athletes and artists. And not only in Argentina, but in all of Latin America,"

Since when did the US have any colonies in South America? Shouldn't they be yelling their complaints at Spain?

23 posted on 11/04/2005 10:15:36 AM PST by A Ruckus of Dogs
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To: EagleUSA

At least FTAA isn't likely to go through any time soon while big Hugo and little Hugo are down there agitating.


24 posted on 11/04/2005 10:20:53 AM PST by Great Caesars Ghost (The Fault, dear Brutus, lies not in the Stars, but in ourselves..)
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To: A Ruckus of Dogs
Argentina had a brief war with England back in the 1980s when they tried to take the Falklands (colonized by the British after the Monroe Doctrine was proclaimed, but only marginally "America")...that didn't go so well for them.

The U.S. violated its own proclamation (that it would not interfere with existing colonies) by taking Cuba and Puerto Rico away from Spain in 1898. Cuba would certainly be better off if it still belonged to Spain.

25 posted on 11/04/2005 10:26:57 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: SolidSupplySide

You mean Cindy Sh#thead, don't you? =)


26 posted on 11/04/2005 10:42:43 AM PST by Levante
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To: A Ruckus of Dogs

I think it was here on FR where I first read "When another country has a crisis and picks up the phone and dials 911, the phone rings here in America".

"Ring, ring, ring........sorry, the number you have dialed had been disconnected and there is no new number, Please try again..."


27 posted on 11/04/2005 10:45:47 AM PST by panaxanax
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To: Kitten Festival

From the land that gave us Che Guevara.


28 posted on 11/04/2005 10:47:39 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: GVgirl

I met an al-Qaida guy in Panama City, Panama, in late 2000. I had just got out of Indonesia and headed to the local mosque for the heck of it since I knew my mosques, and sure enough, this bonafide member of al-Qaida was there, telling me about his mission to set up a madrassa in CHILE. He was an ex-Sandinista who had lost his other religion, communism, and had picked up Islamofascism as his substitute. Totally sick but true.


29 posted on 11/04/2005 11:17:34 AM PST by Kitten Festival
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To: GVgirl

Yes, in 1997! Isn't that crazy? Most people hadn't even heard of Osama back then. But I knew exactly who he was even at the time. It made me very uncomfortable as an American tourist, because even in 1997 Osama was known to have been behind various bombings of Americans. Although lots of Americans didn't yet know his name, he was already a popular figure among the radical anti-American leftists of Mexico and Latin America. I guess they saw him as a revolutionary like Che. Needless to say, it didn't make me feel very welcome to walk through the streets of Mexico with peddlers hawking posters of somebody famous for having blown up Americans at the Khobar towers and other places.


30 posted on 11/04/2005 11:27:46 AM PST by burrian
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To: Kitten Festival

Ahh, Maradona. Coked-up soccer icon who has somehow discovered his Islamic and Marxist roots. After scamming millions of dollars from the corrupt capitalist system, of course.


31 posted on 11/04/2005 11:31:10 AM PST by livius
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To: Kitten Festival
I remember reading not too long ago that there were people there so poor that they fed their families by living near the garbage dump. And they are so moronic that they can't recognize a helping hand when we are kind enough to offer it.

Screw em all. And I know a family in Argentina, and have been there to visit them. beautiful country, but moronic inhabitants.

32 posted on 11/04/2005 11:45:02 AM PST by CharlieOK1 (Ideally pacifism would be great, but only if you've got an army of non-pacifists to protect you)
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To: EagleUSA
ain't Socialism grand

33 posted on 11/04/2005 11:50:20 AM PST by CharlieOK1 (Ideally pacifism would be great, but only if you've got an army of non-pacifists to protect you)
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To: Kitten Festival
an ex-Sandinista who had lost his other religion, communism, and had picked up Islamofascism as his substitute

Birds of a feather.

34 posted on 11/04/2005 12:02:00 PM PST by GVnana
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To: Kitten Festival
A few sporting the portrait of Osama bin Laden were also in evidence.

Does anyone think George Soros and Moveon.org might be sponsoring some of this? Who paid Mother Sheehan's way down to S. America, or is she still spending Casey's insurance money?

35 posted on 11/04/2005 2:37:35 PM PST by p23185
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To: CharlieOK1
ain't Socialism grand

I hope that Hell has an extra hot seat waiting for each and every socialist that has ever walked this earth.

These A$$holes that walk around with their 'Capitalism Kills' patches don't think twice about how it is socialist policies that cause people to starve and die. What do THEIR stupid govt farm subsidies do to Africa.
36 posted on 11/04/2005 3:27:20 PM PST by proud_yank (Socialism is economic oppression)
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To: GVgirl

Zackly. I known long known this. Scratch a Sandinista, find a binladenite and vice versa.


37 posted on 11/04/2005 7:47:14 PM PST by Kitten Festival
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To: Levante
You mean Cindy Sh#thead, don't you? =)

Stop - I don't want to hear about the "motha" anymore. She is not news; she is part of the Sheehan/Wilson/Flame/Soros/Lyn Stewart/Err America cabal to take out GW and his admin.

38 posted on 11/04/2005 9:00:56 PM PST by p23185 (Why isn't attempting to take down a sitting Pres & his Admin considered Sedition?)
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To: ASA Vet

Elvis Bin Laden, LOL


39 posted on 11/05/2005 7:18:45 AM PST by Petey139
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To: ASA Vet

that's Dennis Rodman


40 posted on 11/05/2005 1:22:29 PM PST by pleikumud
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