Women Bare All in Australian Anti-War Protest

Yahoo News ^ | Sat Feb 8, 2:52 AM ET | Editorial Staff

[vannrox]

SYDNEY (Reuters) - More than 700 women posed nude on Saturday to protest against Australia's likely involvement in a potential war against Iraq.

Lying naked end to end on a grassy knoll in the Australian beach town of Byron Bay, they formed a heart around the words "No War" for an aerial photograph.

Australia has sent troops and approved fighter jet deployments to join U.S. and British forces in the Gulf preparing for a possible war in Iraq, but has yet to publicly commit itself to joining any military action in Iraq, whether U.N.-approved or U.S.-led.

The women, ranging in age from about 20 to 60, gathered on a hillside in the beachside artists' haven in the far north of New South Wales state.

One middle-aged woman had the words "Bare it all for the boys Down Under" written down her back.

"I really realize now when I look up here and see all these women, they're desperate to let our prime minister hear how very very angry they are at what he's doing and how much they disagree with what's happening," organizer Grace Knight told Australian Broadcasting Corp Radio.

"If you just look over there, that's a lot of women who don't agree with what's going on," she said.

A local police spokesman said the protest was on private property and not visible to the public.

Knight said aerial photos would be distributed to garner publicity for the women's stance that Prime Minister John Howard should recall Australian troops already deployed in the Middle East.

The pre-deployment of troops has opened a sharp political divide. On Wednesday, the opposition-controlled Senate passed a symbolic vote of no confidence in Howard.

The Australian protest echoed a similar one in New York where nude women formed the words "No Bush" to demonstrate against U.S. President George Bush's hardline stance against Iraq.

There were smaller anti-war protests elsewhere on Saturday in New South Wales and adjoining Queensland state.

Howard left Sydney on Saturday on a week-long trip in which he plans to meet with Bush as well as U.N., British and Indonesian leaders.

[vannrox]

Hum...Alot of anti-war women like to take off their clothes. Are they trying to horrify us, or are they trying to get our attention?

[1Old Pro]

The Australian protest echoed a similar one in New York where nude women formed the words "No Bush" to demonstrate against U.S. President George Bush's hardline stance against Iraq.

There's a message in there somewhere.

[duckman]

Is there a blow up of this for further inspection? They my all look like Helen Thomas.

[DB]

And all the while there is no talk of taking Saddam to the "World Court" to be tried for mass murder...

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Wow, hold me beer'n watch this, mate!

[Search4Truth]

LOL

[Luna]

I'm rolling my eyes right now. I have no words for these women. Their idiocy has left orbit and is now hurtling through space and time to make a mark against humanity by any aliens who are watching this on their super-duper high tech monitors.

Or, maybe these women are aliens who think they can make a difference by appearing as nekkid women. Or should that be "wimyn?", "wimmin?"

Ick.

[BufordP]

They wouldn't be treating us to all this nudity if it wasn't for the war. Leave it to liberals to frustrate their own cause.

"Will disrobe for war"

[skinkinthegrass]

The Horror..."my eyes, my eyes"... I shouldn't have looked... :)

[lady lawyer]

I think these broads are just exhibitionists, looking for an excuse. What a bunch of losers.

[mhking]

"Hold muh beer 'n watch this!" PING....

If you want on or off this list, please let me know!

[prognostigaator]

....."Are they trying to horrify us, or are they trying to get our attention?"

True blondes have more fun-
Some gals in there are not true blondes......

[Emeraldgold]

If that all it takes to get woman to strip then I'm happy to be pro-war. I think I should make a t-shirt with "I'm Pro-war," on it maybe one of the woman protesters will see it and go buff.

[bullpup]

When the Muslims finish taking over their country....they won't have to disrobe for war....

First they will have a lot of help....and the survivors had better not even bare their ankle...

[irish_lad]

I want to be a peacenik for 24 hours.

[Corin Stormhands]

Yeah, it makes a lot of sense.

"If you men don't stop fighting, all the women are gonna take their clothes off..."

8 bazillion 13-year-old boys just tried to register for the draft.

[Cyclops08]

I'm overwhemed by the futility of this action.
Really, what does making anti-war slogans out of hordes of naked women hope to accomplish? Has the build up to war slowed down one bit? Does Saddam feel any safer? Are the powers behind the war worried about naked women forming letters?

>>>Most people just laugh at this. The anti-war message is lost! Not that I want to help the left, but there has got to be a better way to "spead" their message.

The futility of this event is dramatic. The left is completely out of ideas. All I hear is false, unsupportable assertions from the Left. They are truely out of ideas.

[Hank Rearden]

Why doesn't anybody ever bring a telephoto lens to these things? To protect our retinas?

[AdA$tra]

Sometimes I hate living in Kansas where people are boring.

These women's American couterparts spelled "NO BUSH" when they did it. In the picture I saw there was too much bush, and much of it in the wrong places.

[Smedley]

I think these broads are just exhibitionists, looking for an excuse. What a bunch of losers.

In a related story, the number of men exposing themselves to women in Perth doubled recently.