[Oldeconomybuyer]

Mon Feb 10, 4:22 AM ET

[CARepubGal]

I see pollution emitting from the KumBaYah Bus! The Horror!

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Lookit at blue mist! Jeepers, these buses would be hauled off the road anywhere in the US. I think air-breathing citizens of London should pony up money to have them junked before they come back.

[kcvl]

The group of about 60 volunteers includes Britons, Americans, Spaniards, Brazilians, Australians and Israelis, ranging in age from 20 to 60.

The activists planned to drive day and night through Europe and Turkey, arriving at the Iraqi border by February 4 or 5, where they will be given entry visas by Iraqi officials, volunteer Sue Darling said.

On February 15, the caravan is expected to be joined by a bigger convoy of perhaps hundreds of volunteers, a participant told CNN.

"What we are intending to do is to make it politically impossible for President Bush and Tony Blair to have this war," said Joe Letts, owner of two of the buses and a driver.

Letts, a father of four, said the anti-war coalition asked for his help in planning the route to Baghdad. Letts then offered to lend his buses and himself to the cause.

The top levels of the buses have been converted to accommodate cots for the two-week journey. Letts' buses are red, but the third bus and the taxi have been painted white.

A white flag intended to symbolize peace was placed on the taxi's roof.

"We will run the risk of being maimed or killed, but it is simply the same risk that innocent Iraqis will themselves face," O'Keefe was quoted as saying in a December online interview.

"I would rather die in defense of justice and peace than 'prosper' in complicity with mass murder and war," he said.

O'Keefe renounced his American citizenship in 1999. Darling, 60, said she is a former British diplomat to the United Nations.

[turbojugend]

"They're the sons and daughters of well-off bankers / Tom Robinson's army of trendy wankers / Flared blue jeans and anoraks / With yellow streaks running down their backs." -The Business

I hope these silly hippies are nothing more than red and yellow streaks in a few weeks' time.