Posted on 06/26/2005 2:33:25 PM PDT by MRMEAN
WASHINGTON — Banging drums, singing songs and waving giant puppets, several thousand anti-war demonstrators marched Sunday to call for peace following the terrorist attacks.
"Now is when you should question the president," said Scott Morschhauser, 37, who came from Bettendorf, Iowa with a large American flag, its field of stars replaced with a peace symbol. "At times of emergency the decisions made have repercussions 10 or 20 years from now."
The peace rally and march had a festive atmosphere, with families spreading out picnic blankets in a park and performers leading the crowd in songs with lyrics such as "No more killing, no more war, no more violence anymore."
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"In 1998, the al-Shifa (Health) pharmaceutical factory in Khartoum, Sudan, was destroyed in cruise missile strikes launched by the United States in retaliation for the August 7 truck bomb attacks on its embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi."
The libs always forget that we took out the facility because Clinton learned that Iraqi scientists were aiding AL Queda in making chemical weapons.
Somehow, it's everybody else's responsibility to talk, and their responsibility to sit around, pout and be reactionary!
Well, at least I know better. They can not be convinced otherwise, so just leave them alone to hang out with the puppets. Of all stripes. And yes, that would be a curse.
We believe that as people living
in the United States it is our
responsibility to resist the injustices
done by our government,
in our names
Not in our name
will you wage endless war
and concluding
Another world is possible
and we pledge to make it real.
Signatories
NION's web site lists a broad array of signatories to the pledge, listing only those who signed before July 17, 2002. Among those are:
James Abourezk, former U.S. Senator Dr. Patch Adams Robert Altman, film director Laurie Anderson, performance artist John Perry Barlow, co-founder, Electronic Frontier Foundation Medea Benjamin Noam Chomsky Deepak Chopra Ramsey Clark, former U.S. Attorney General and founder of ANSWER John Cusack, actor Angela Davis Ossie Davis Zack de la Rocha of Rage Against the Machine Ruby Dee Mos Def Ani DiFranco Diane DiPrima Carl Dix, Revolutionary Communist Party Bernadine Dohrn Michael Eric Dyson Steve Earle Barbara Ehrenreich Daniel Ellsberg Brian Eno Eve Ensler Lawrence Ferlinghetti Fifty-three Maryknoll priests and brothers Jane Fonda Michael Franti of Spearhead Terry Gilliam The Guerrilla Girls Tom Hayden bell hooks Rev. Jesse Jackson Mumia Abu-Jamal Fredric Jameson Jim Jarmusch Chalmers Johnson, author of Blowback Casey Kasem Barbara Kingsolver Tony Kushner Spike Lee Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor, Tikkun Phil Lesh of the Grateful Dead Jim McDermott, U.S. representative Cynthia McKinney, former U.S. representative David McReynolds W.S. Merwin Toni Morrison Walter Mosley Odetta Claes Oldenburg Ozomatli Grace Paley Michael Parenti Harold Prince Bonnie Raitt Adrienne Rich Edward Said Luc Sante Susan Sarandon John Sayles Pete and Toshi Seeger Frank Serpico Richard Serra Rev. Al Sharpton Wallace Shawn Martin Sheen Russell Simmons Art Spiegelman Gloria Steinem Oliver Stone William & Rose Styron Studs Terkel Gore Vidal Kurt Vonnegut Alice Walker Wavy Gravy Cornel West Howard Zinn
I thought we took it out to deflect attention from Clinton's Impeachment.
That pretty much clears up and supports what Rove was talking about. According to our little liberal friends the rag-heads are just a bunch of victims who only need a hand out from Uncle Sam to get better.
This would be a good thread to post every transcripts, photo, article, letters and so far to document how Liberals REALLY responded to 9-11.
NION, endorsed by a cop-killer (Mumia Abu Jamal) does not want the US to wage war against (Muslim, just like the cop-killer) terrorists who want to destroy our nation. That should prove once for all whose side they are on, and IMO these lefty kooks only want to destroy America.
The point of this and other posts is that there was opposition to going to war - even against the despicable Taliban and its guest, Osama bin Laden. These people won't fight, even when we are attacked. This indicates to me that they are against defending the U.S. and its people. They are much more in love with their own pacifism, if you can call it that, than they are with their country.
Well, if the Islamists win and have their way, these folks will be among the first to go.
You are right. It is almost certainly true that we cannot end terrorism as a weapon any time in the near future. But the Left does not care - they sympathize with the terrorists. Why? Because the Left blames their actions on Us. As in the "US". It is an article of faith within the fever swamps of the religious Left that we - the United States in particular and the West in general - are responsible for creating terrorism against us and our allies. To the Worldwide Left, we are the Enemy of their "God" - the God of Progress. And the enemy of their enemy is natually their friend. Hence the activities of some Americans that border on treason.
The peace rally and march had a festive atmosphere, with families spreading out picnic blankets in a park and performers leading the crowd in songs with lyrics such as "No more killing, no more war, no more violence anymore."
Wait until oil hits a $100 a barrel.
Hey, with a list like that, who needs terrorists?
I lived near a family which, after 9/11, flew a United Nations flag outside of their home. < \ sigh >
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