"Gangster" according to Goebbels.
Posted on 02/23/2005 4:57:43 PM PST by The Loan Arranger
MAINZ, Germany (Reuters) - About 12,000 protesters, many carrying banners reading "Bush go home," "No. 1 Terrorist" and "Warmonger," marched through the German city of Mainz on Wednesday, but were mostly kept away from the visiting U.S. president.
The official rally, which was twice as big as expected, never got within earshot of President Bush, but a small group of protestors rushed toward his car as he left to visit a U.S. base in nearby Wiesbaden. Police wrestled several demonstrators to the ground and led them away in handcuffs, a Reuters witness said.
Bush was visiting Germany for the first time since the 2003 Iraq war, which Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and most Germans opposed.
"I'm disgusted by the war in Iraq Bush started that has cost thousands of civilian lives," said Thomas Odenweller, 49, a computer technician. "Now he's trying to normalize relations with Europe. It must be stopped."
Ignoring snow and freezing temperatures, the demonstrators held banners chastising Bush in English with slogans such as: "You can bomb the world to pieces but not into peace." Many had pre-printed posters reading: "Bush, No. 1 Terrorist."
Before the march, which Mainz police said was one of the largest ever in the city of about 300,000, one speaker told the crowd: "Mr. Bush, please leave our country. You started an illegal war against Iraq."
German police confiscated one poster that read: "We had our Hitler, now you have yours."
Some protesters praised Schroeder for his anti-war stance.
"Schroeder's opposition to the Iraq war made me so proud to be German," said Helmut Bach, 50, a pilot who marched with his 20-year-old daughter. "That's why I voted for him."
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FReeper calls Reuters "#1 crap media outlet."
Ahhhhh..I see Rooters is at it again!
I'm sure there are (at least) tens of thousands of American citizens - ultra-leftists, Islamists, etc. - who consider Bush the #1 terrorist as well.
I wonder if the protesters realize how happy President Bush is to see that Germany still respects the right of dissent. While dictators and their supporters see dissent as a sign of weakness, the US views it as a sign of a strength.
Can you imagine these folks in Syria, Iran or NK protesting against the gov't?
I don't even care what our domestic whack-jobs think.
When have the Germans ever protested the killings carried out by Saddam Hussein against his own people, or the murders carried out by real terrorists all over the world?
Hell, most Americans seem to be disgusted also.; but, for some reason, seem to be waiting for these political freaks to destroy themselves.
And this is different than protesters signs in America, how? A bitter socialist in America is the same thing as a bitter sicialist in Europe. Not newsworthy if you ask me.
they haven't a clue what's going on.
they benefitted from our defense, free market economy, and democracy.
I actually EXPECTED this kind of stupid, counterintuitive rhetoric during Bush's trip. These days, it seems like the more outrageous, idiotic, and contradictory the charge, the more likely it is that you'll hear it, especially in the brain-dead dustbins of Europe.
You know, we could have held off on D-Day until we had a pile of nukes.
None of this would have gone on today FUR SHUR.
The EU is fast becoming an enemy. It is time to treat them as such. Germany and France. Worlds No. 1 COWARDS and BACKSTABBERS
Those protestors only know their own selfish greed. They don't know nor do they care about the blood that was shed in the past. They only know me, my, I, mine, yada, yada, yada. They are T-R-A-S-H
I enjoy seeing the Germans lecture the U.S. on international relations. How many wars have the Germans started?
"Gangster" according to Goebbels.
I would hate to have a couple of Reuters-selected Americans be spokespeople for the entire USA.
This is only one little tiny bit of the story. Of course Roto-Reuters writes sensationalistically - it picks sides - and this is the expected side they would pick to write on. Simple. Just to bug you & me.
When it comes to tracking & evicting the mooslim Gastarbeiten and Terroristen, the Germans pick the US and UK for allies; Reuters has no say there. Reuters just doesn't report that - and its editors probably steam about it in the privacy of their journalistic parties.
http://www.udo-leuschner.de/nachruestung/850506.htm
Babelfish sez it's:
"6. May 1985: In new city at the crying race young people demonstrate against the simultaneous appearance of US president Reagan on the neighbouring "Hambacher lock". As a US president kostuemierter and made up actors what the demonstrators would gladly have heard of the genuine president actor, says and receives appropriate applause in its speech on the market place of new city." (Really, that's what Babelfish says this is!)
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