Posted on 03/19/2011 4:44:44 PM PDT by Libloather
Anti-war protesters arrested near White House
By ERIC TUCKER
Associated Press
Updated: Mar 19, 2011 6:46 PM EDT
WASHINGTON (AP) - More than 100 anti-war protesters, including the man who leaked the Pentagon Papers, were arrested outside the White House on Saturday in demonstrations marking the eighth anniversary of the U.S.-led war in Iraq.
The protesters, some shouting anti-war slogans and singing "We Shall Not Be Moved," were arrested after ignoring orders to move away from the gates of the White House. The demonstrators cheered loudly as Daniel Ellsberg, the former military analyst who in 1971 leaked the Pentagon's secret history of the Vietnam War that was later published in major newspapers, was arrested and led away by police.
In New York City, about 80 protesters gathered near the U.S. military recruiting center in Times Square, chanting "No to war" and carrying banners that read, "I am not paying for war" and "Butter not guns."
Similar protests marking the start of the Iraq war were also planned Saturday in Chicago, San Francisco and other cities.
The demonstration in Washington on Saturday merged varied causes, including protesters demanding a U.S. military withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan as well as those supporting Bradley Manning, the jailed Army private suspected of giving classified documents to the website Wikileaks.
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There was little talk of the U.S. missile strikes against Moammar Gadhafi's forces in Libya on Saturday, part of an international effort to protect rebel forces.
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I’ll say this for them...at least they seem to have conviction.
“...demonstrations marking the eighth anniversary of the U.S.-led war in Iraq.”
Oh! The irony.
Here’s a fun way to tweak those with “anti-war conviction”: ask them if they would support a US-led war against Israel.
Wait. WHAT war are they protesting? Oh yeah, the evil George Bush war of 8 years ago.
Not TODAY’s angelic Obama war.
Ok....
Free Mumia
Are those fools still harping on the Iraq war..GET OVER IT!! How about we send those leftist freaks to Iraq and let the Iraqi’s have fun with them. No mention of Obama ordering strikes on Libya, I guess that is cool with them as long as its a Dem ordering it
I was watching the videos and some idiots were actually walking around with signs saying “Indict Bush.” DUH!
I was hoping to see a following phrase saying "and was subsequently shot while trying to escape".
You misspelled "Fry".
Libya has been very painful for O. I think he realizes that there are far more similarities between Gadhafi and Saddam than there are differences. Losing Calypso Louie will seriously limit O’s options for poll watchers. Now Code Pink is bailing. Har Har Har
Did anyone clue these tools in to the fact that their savior ordered an unprovoked attack against Libya today?
"Hey man, it's not cool to protest Obama's wars."
I was in Vietnam when the dirtbag Ellberg leaked the `Pentagon papers’ and suddenly we were being fired upon with heatseekers and the `ragtag communist peasant army’ began sporting tanks and APCs (FWIW I flew Hueys).
At the time I wanted his sorry traitor @ss dead. Now I’d be content for some sixtysomething vet like me to beat the snot out of him. Won’t these evil b@stards ever go away?
MARCH 19, 2011
OBAMA: ‘Today we are part of a broad coalition. We are answering the calls of a threatened people. And we are acting in the interests of the United States and the world’...
MARCH 19, 2003
BUSH: ‘American and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm Iraq, to free its people and to defend the world from grave danger...
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