Posted on 04/04/2009 8:18:23 AM PDT by boughtwithaprice
STRASBOURG, France - Black-clad protesters attacked police and set a customs station ablaze Saturday on a bridge linking France and Germany that served hours earlier as the backdrop for a show of unity by NATO leaders.
AP photographers saw other protesters storm a nearby Ibis hotel, setting fires and pilfering alcohol from its bar.
Stacks of old tires were also set ablaze, unleashing thick plumes of black smoke that could be seen from across the river. Near the bonfire was a sign welcoming visitors to Strasbourg.
First lady Michelle Obama and other spouses canceled a visit to a cancer hospital out of concern for security, the French president's office said. Some 1,000 protesters were staked out near the hospital they were to visit.
Some of the protesters say they want an end to war and call NATO a tool of Western imperialism. Others simply appear bent on causing chaos.
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It’s Bush’s fault!
Drunk and black-clad anarchist is no way to go through life son.
I wonder how many of those yutes speak Russian and think rather highly of Vladimir Putin.
“Some of the protesters say they want an end to war and call NATO a tool of Western imperialism.”
When Islam takes replaces so-called ‘western imperialism’,there will be no alcohol to loot.
If one loots anything else, it’s off with your hands.
The pipple just wanted to throw flowers and candy at omarosa.
Showing more spunk than most NATO troops ... sign ‘em up. You, you, and you .. you are drafted.
They are all on welfare no doubt because of the generosity of the evil western empire. They are spoiled, brain washed ingrates.
Peace Now!/
So, where these people “wowed” by Obama or not?
Their parents, I’m sure, are just bursting with pride. /s
STK
Can you say Visigoth?
that’s not protest, that’s terrorism.
so pathetic. we have witnessed over the last 20 years, the bigest land grab in human history as 10% of the land mass of Earth has been quietly renamed from a “union of socialist republics”, to “russian federation”, and now just “russia” - the biggest contiguous empire man has ever known, and yet they get away with calling America imperialist.
Yep, that’s a good thought. One of the mistakes that we made in Iraq is thinking that everybody, especially Saddam’s military, would be ecstatic when Saddam was gone and do anything for us. (I’m not trying to trash the war in Iraq or say we shouldn’t be there.) On the same note, there’s probably East Germans who want things to go back to the old USSR regime.
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