Millions join anti-war protests worldwide

BBC ^ | 02/15/03

[txradioguy]

Ummm...well..since you put it that way! LOL!

[johniegrad]

No hard feelings. If you had looked at my post carefully, though, you would have seen that I reported myself and pinged the Admin Moderator to my post. We're going to be dealing with these disruptors all weekend with the marches and all and I decided to let him know where I stood in no uncertain terms. It violates the posting guidelines, I turned myself in, and so did you. No big deal, no hard feelings, and no need to explain yourself to me. Thanks for doing it anyway though.

[old school]

"America-Love it or Leave it!" We don't want to be like everyone else! Get it?

[dandelion]

Look at the numbers, not the photos: even according to BBC, in most nations the numbers are in the low thousands, woefully short of the HUNDREDS of thousands they had hoped to bring out. With few exceptions, this "global protest" is a dismal failure, and only the leftist press can save it.

The press today will use vague counts and packed photos to make us think that there were many more than were actually present at these events, and we must get the word out on the actual numbers if we are to present it fairly.

(Nelson) HA-ha...

[Indy Pendance]

First, really, change your profile. Second, welcome to Free Republic. You seem open to conservative ideas. We are not radicals as some would suggest. Sure, there are a few, but isn't that with any group?

These anti-american protests are coordinated by a world wide effort sponsered by communists groups, and I have a good suspision, by radical islamist groups. Do some research. Follow the money.

[Indy Pendance]

The busses should be there shortly....... (like they always say)

[Steel Wolf]

You said it. There is a reason that people line up at U.S. embassies the world over to get out of where they are, and it's not just to get rich.

We have it good as gold in terms of freedom and truth yet we don't realize that most of the world languishes under government controlled media, lies and corruption that dwarfs anything you'd find on CNN or from Clintonesque scandals.

[B Knotts]

43. Stalin Society, United Kingdom

Yep. They don't even try to hide it. These people aren't merely socialists, or even communists; they're STALINISTS, which explains perfectly their support for a third-rate dictator and butcher like Saddam.

By and large, they are NOT anti-war. They are anti-Bush, anti-US and pro-Saddam.

[Dr.Deth]

"No Bushery"

Sounds like a slogan that French women should apply to their own persons, before worrying about America.

[Indy Pendance]

If you start following those links, you'd be amazed what's really going on. I have it bookmarked on my profile if you want to copy it. Sure, there are some saps that think this protest is about the war, it's not. It's a method to solidify and strengthen the commies.

[pgkdan]

. Being shut out of the global economy would be a death blow.

Of course it would...for the global economy!!! Grow a pair and face the world for what it is. America is the only Super Power in the world. Period. We are the moral, cultural, political and military superstars of the world.

How do you think these world wide marches happened to take place around the world, almost simultaneoulsy? Do you think it's a co-incidence? Do think that average citizens all over the world climbed out of bed and felt they just had to go out into the garage, make a vile anti-Amierican sign and then converge in some place where thousands of other average citizens with their own hateful signs also just happened to be? Or do you think this may have been orchestrated by someone. For every asshole out there with a sign there's 100 who feel the other way and 100 who don't care.

[Indy Pendance]

It's called pre-emptive strike. If we don't do anything, think of the alternatives. What will happen if we just let the terrorists win? Saddam has weapons, he's used them in the past, on his own people, he will use them in the future. I don't know about you, but I sure don't want a chemical or bilolgical weapon released in the US because we 'gave peace a chance'.

[glennaro]

These people don't "think", they "feel". Thus, all the logic, all the reason, all the facts in the history of mankind will not touch them ... until, for some, they become a victim of the barbarians.

GWB is in a quandry. While the U.N., the protesters and our own citizens who hate or who are ashamed of our country hold a strong hand today, we own the deck. Question is, do our leaders have the intestinal fortitude to do what's right?

[dandelion]

Look at the REAL numbers - according to AP breaking news:

"The British capital had one of the largest marches for peace on a day of global protest - at least a million people, organizers claimed, although initial police estimates were about half that."

These protesters, heavily funded by global interest, are still not able to pull in the numbers they had paid for. They are LYING about the number they have pulled together, and only diligence will reveal the truth about these protests. Yes, some of them will be large gatherings - but it doesn't really matter. Europe will sink even further into irrelevence, thanks to paid holidays like this one.

They are not the majority in THIS country, and they know it. So do we. That is all that matters.

[zeaal]

Gore wakes up every morning with a fun little dance in his step. He goes downstairs to breakfast with Tipper singing, "I am NOT the President, I am NOT the President, hoo-rah for me, hoo-rah for me, I am NOT the President!" Al Gore is wildly happy that he is NOT the President right now. Otherwise, the signs at the anti-war protest (assuming Gore would know how to handle the Iraqi situation) would read DOWN With GORE!

[niteowl77]

I just don't feel like taking on the entire world and becoming a universally hated pariah. Being shut out of the global economy would be a death blow.

You don't FEEL like it?!! Screw that pablum, Ickey, because you are in this up to your ever-lovin' ass, whether you like it or not. The global left has been marching on this nation since 1917, and these "spontaneous" eruptions of duplicitous anti-Americanism (disguised as concern for Iraqi children) really ought to be slapping you awake in a big way. The U.N. has been exposed as a global fraternity for oppressive hegemonies, yet we are supposed to quake because the useful idiots who bow to the powder blue idol can organize protests of people who have nothing better to do today? The world - or at least part of it - is taking you, me and every American on... if you think we would be less of a pariah if we would just bend over this time and give the world a jar of Vaseline and an apology for being so naughty to Saddam, you don't know jack about human nature and how the mean old world has, does, and always will operate.

What's the global economy without the United States? Are the French going to sell a lot of wine to Chileans? Think anyone in Zimbabwe under the rank of Deputy Mugabe Rumpswab will be buying Mercedes Benzes? Maybe the Belgians can get nations to buy back their own cacao in individually wrapped form after all the middlemen take their cut. Do you think the ChiComs will sell a lot of die-cast junk to Uzbekistan toy collectors? Death blow... get real. A lot of what is going on right now will be bitter medicine in the short term, but it is medicine, nonetheless. All this can do is make us stronger and let us know who not to go to the dance with.

I am getting real tired of the Chicken Littles on this forum (and in this nation) who have nothing better to do than project the image of a quivering, effeminate Uncle Sam. That kind of crap is going to make the bad guys bolder, and it can get Americans killed. The activists and so-called "journalists" who keep plugging way at our resolve are going to be just as guilty as any Al Qaida infiltrator as far as damage to our nation is concerned. If keyboard pundits sitting on their loathsome, spotty bottoms can't muster an ounce of courage while our sons, daughters, parents and servicepeople of all types are going toe-to-toe with some of the worst characters and weapons this young century can offer, then we are not just gutless, we are beneath contempt.

[Rockiesrider]

"Shows it's really anti W, anti capitalism, anti American.....not anti war."

I think the Beltway Boys gave real insite into the anti-war movement in Europe when they suggested that at the heart of all this was an anti-jewish belief. I is my belief that the regiem change in Iraq is prompted by the desire of "W" to quell the arms suppliers of Isamic zealots in perpetual war with Israel. In the belief that reducing the support for them will bring a reasonable approach to lasting negotiations over Palistine.
The Europeans and their Jewish hate could care less about Israel and its existance. Thus has little support for Bushes grand plan. Interesting that the very same hate that created the Israeli state almost 60 years ago, continues today to work for is demise. Even more curious is the fact that the anti-jewish position is taken by the antiwar Democrats. The very party that claims to be in their best interest. Wake up American Jews, your real friend is George "W" and the Republicans.

[Indy Pendance]

DOWN With GORE!

*slap*

Sorry, just had to wake you up. Here, have a coffee....