War protesters will light bridges(free ad alert)

The Oregonian ^ | September 23, 2005 | Mike Francis

[crazyhorse691]

War protesters in Portland are organizing a Saturday night candlelight vigil on Portland's bridges that they say will be "quiet, reflective, (but) not necessarily silent." The event, planned for 7:30 p.m. on the sidewalks of the Burnside, Morrison and Hawthorne bridges, is intended as a call to bring U.S. soldiers home from Iraq.

It is timed to coincide with a national protest this weekend. Busloads of war protesters are heading to Washington, D.C., to join what they are calling "a national mobilization" against the war.

Among them will be Portland's Lynn Bradach, whose son, Travis Bradach-Nall, was killed in Iraq in 2003. She and Michelle DeFord of Salem, whose son, David Johnson, was killed last year in Iraq, joined Cindy Sheehan last month in Crawford, Texas, to protest the U.S.-led war in Iraq. Sheehan of Vacaville, Calif., whose son, Casey Sheehan, was killed in Iraq, is one of the leaders of this weekend's protest in Washington.

The protest in Washington can "force change to happen," Sheehan told reporters Wednesday. "We will end this war."

Another group, Oregonians Against the War, said it would join the march in Washington, then participate in a day of intensive lobbying and "in acts of civil disobedience" Monday.

Information about the Washington protest is available at www.unitedforpeace.org.

-- Mike Francis

[crazyhorse691]

The Oregonian is giving free ad space to the antiwar floozies. The exact same article appeared in yesterdays Oregonian. I have alerted the paper to this "mistake", but, I don't think a correction will be forthcoming soon.

[CONSERVE]

Man if only someone had one of those boats with a watercannon.

[TheDon]

Stories like this warm the hearts of terrorists everywhere!

[rocksblues]

Another group, Oregonians Against the War, said it would join the march in Washington, then participate in a day of intensive lobbying and "in acts of civil disobedience" Monday.

I don't know much about the police in Oregon but I would take this as a challenge.

[sgtbono2002]

I say bring the soldiers home too. As soon as their job is done.

[JamminJAY]

Sheehan told reporters Wednesday. "We will end this war."

This is wonderful! Way to go cindy!
Are you and your followers donning your pink uniforms to go hunt OBL in the Afgan hills?

Remember cindy to ask him Why?
Why?
Why?
Why?
Why?
Why?
Why?.....
Sooner or later he will shoot himself. I know I couldn't last long.

Jammer

[Loyal Buckeye]

Bridges won't be the only things they light.

[M1911A1]

First thing I thought of was those wonderful "insurgent" friends of these peacenick knuckleheads hanging the charred remains of those security contractors off that bridge in Iraq.

[Cheburashka]

I'm glad I'm not there.

The temptation to walk across the bridge with a fire extinguisher and spray each one would be terrible.

Of course it would be wrong.

[FDNYRHEROES]

But, won't all those candles add to global warming?

[TaxRelief]

War protesters in Portland are organizing a Saturday night candlelight vigil on Portland's bridges that they say will be "quiet, reflective, (but) not necessarily silent.

It's nothing a few 500,000 candlepower spotlights from Target can't fix. LOL