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Saturday, March 19, 2005
Protests In Europe
[Media Source*] I will be updating about Terri's fight for life but will highlight some interesting things going around the world.
It looks like some Europeans, despite the success of the Iraqi elections (as Omar and Mohammed could tell you) still consider Iraq a type of "Vietnam."
(From Yahoo News)
"George Bush...Uncle Sam. Iraq will be your Vietnam," chanted 45,000 protesters winding through central London as they put down a black cardboard coffin with the slogan "100,000 dead" scrawled on the lid outside the U.S. Embassy.
The protesters, marking the second anniversary of the invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein, called on Bush and his ally, British Prime Minister Tony Blair (news - web sites), to pull their troops out of Iraq and restore sovereignty to its people.
Obviously these people are ignoring the success of Iraq as the bloggers who live there could probably give you a better story than the media, although it's absence in the news (the frequency that is) now-a-days is probably a result of it's success. Some pictures of the protests below.
Photo's from Yahoo News.
A demonstrator wears a mask depicting U.S. President George W. Bush during an anti-war demonstration in central London to mark the second anniversary of the start of war in Iraq, March 19, 2005. (Stephen Hird/Reuters)
Steve Liechty, from Durham, N.C., carries a mock coffin during an anti-war march, Saturday, March 19, 2005, in Fayetteville, N.C., as thousands of anti-war protesters took to the streets around the U.S. to commemorate the second anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. (AP Photo/The Fayetteville Observer, Marc Hall)
These protests were smaller than last years and it seems that Bush's victory in 2004 as well as the election in Iraq have taken the "steam out of the anti-war movement," [public defender Michael Letwin, 48]."
They can protest all they want to but all I know is that an evil dictator has been put behind bars, many Iraqi bloggers can now voice their opinion where as before they were brutally oppressed (as this picture can probably tell you).
unfortunately Protest Warrior wasn't their to heckle them with the facts as that would have made a great video. Enough of Iraq (for now)...and more about Terri.
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