'LARGEST' ANTI-WAR PROTESTS IN HISTORY OF EUROPE

Washington Post ^ | February 15, 2003 | Robert Barr

[notyourregularhandle]

Millions of protesters - many of them marching in the capitals of America's traditional allies - demonstrated Saturday against U.S. plans to attack Iraq.

In a global outpouring of anti-war sentiment, Rome claimed the biggest turnout - 1 million according to police, while organizers claimed three times that figure.

In London, at least 750,000 people joined in the city's biggest demonstration ever, police said. Berlin had up to half a million on the streets, and Paris was estimated to have had up to 100,000.

[dfwgator]

No matter what the US does, we are always going to piss some people off. Do you want to see some really big protests? Just have the US announce that we are pulling all of our troops out of every country and from now on each country is responsible for their own security.

[Jeff Chandler]

Is the whole world screwed in the head except America???

 

Wouldn't be the first time.

[wimpycat]

Is the whole world screwed in the head except America???

If you look at how most other countries are run, the answer is pretty much "yes". Socialized healthcare, welfare, labor unions, heavy, heavy taxation, high unemployment, heavily subsidized industries, discouragement of entrepreneurship, and no money for defense.

[jla]

Do 750,000 people equal one Texan?

[FreedomCalls]

...i said we must LISTEN...these allies, can soon become our enemies...

Listen to whom? These people at the protest:

Or their leaders who are behind us? Their leaders are the democratically elected representatives. These people are from the unemployed, welfare-sucking, lunatic fringe.

You aren't hearing from the huge population that was not at the rallies, the ones who support us, because quiet support will not get TV ratings whereas showing a freakshow is a money maker during the February rating sweeps period.

[notyourregularhandle]

WHY aren't the rest protesting? GET EM OUT THERE! I guarantee I would be out there with signs saying, "INVADE IRAQ NOW" AND "NUKE THE F OUT OF IRAQ"...but I'm not, because i'm not so sure Iraq should be nuked or invaded RIGHT NOW...I can see where this is leading...Our President and Tony Blair are going to be portrayed like war psyco's by our beloved media, everyone who was raised by their hippy fathers and mothers are going to joing the bandwagon, and for the second time in a decade we will lose our first conservative president...IT SUCKS...IRAQ AND IT'S PITTLY LITTLE CORNY COUNTRY ISN'T WORTH IT!!! </soapbox>

[wimpycat]

Don't let them intimidate you. That's exactly what they want...to cow us into doing what THEY want us to do, not what we KNOW is RIGHT. They envy us our power and influence. They don't have our best interests at heart...they want our power to serve THEIR interests.

[coloradan]

'LARGEST' ANTI-WAR PROTESTS IN HISTORY OF EUROPE

This title is a blatant lie!! There have been many far larger anti-war protests in Europe, even in this century. For example, there was the Maginot protest Line, a human chain of anti-war protestors along nearly the entire French border. IIRC they were protesting the imminent invasion of France by Germany.

(What? You're saying they weren't protesting?)

[Psycho_Bunny]

Hundreds of thousands of protestors pack in front of a stage in London's Hyde Park, Saturday, Feb. 15, 2003, for a rally against a possible war with Iraq. (AP Photo/Andrew Parsons)

 

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[oregon conservative]

So should we stop this dictator or not? If the Allies had not finally stopped Hitler in WWII all these peace lovers would be dead, not born or slaves of a Nazi world. As it was, the peace movement of the 1930's cost millions more lives than just dealing with Hitler and Germany in the first place. So I say this peace crowd mentality will kill more people in the long run, as history clearly tells us, if they get their way. The enemy is Islam and this peace crowd will not get a pass for helping the Islamics now, with these pro Iraq protests, in future terrorist attacks.

[notyourregularhandle]

No matter what the US does, we are always going to piss some people off. Do you want to see some really big protests? Just have the US announce that we are pulling all of our troops out of every country and from now on each country is responsible for their own security.

Yes, you have a VERY BIG point here... I agree... We are the 'bully' and we're damned if we do and damned if we don't...

I'm pretty young, so I wasn't present for the last anti war protests (thank God!), but doesn't this seem like a little much? (today's anti war protests) compared to back then...???

[RightWhale]

Is the whole world screwed in the head except America???

No, not at all. Many of those countries in Eastern Europe with recent memories of living under foreign domination, first of Germany, then of Russia, have a clear idea of what this is about.

[MarineDad]

Definitely some people to be taken seriously. Ahuh.

[LaGrone]

We just need to do what is right for us to protect each and every citizen of the U.S.; yes even these protesting idiots. In this case the world benefits also. In the long run of history the war with Iraq will prove correct.

As for the commies, they will forever protest what a Republican President does.

[dfwgator]

Where were these people when Clinton was bombing Yugoslavia??? What threat was Yugoslavia to the US??? Wasn't Milosevic elected by his own people (unlike Saddam)?
Where were they?? This has nothing to do about Saddam, or anti-war, it is anti-Bush, and anti-Republican, nothing more, nothing less.

[PhiKapMom]

To put this in perspective --

Great Britain has 60 million people so .0125% turned out for the rally -- a little over 1%.

France has 59 million people plus so .0016949% turned out for their rally which is way less than 1%.

Taking just those two countries, I cannot see where the demonstrators should have an affect on world leaders except for France where they only turned out 100,000.

[Zeroisanumber]

How many million in Europe, DIDN'T protest?

It takes quite a bit to get millions of people motivated to stage a protest. That, coupled with consistent anti-war polling, tells me that the war is not very popular in Europe.

The political cost of going it alone will be *ahem* costly to say the least. I would rather not go to Iraq than go without the allies.

[FreedomCalls]

Meanwhile, over at the Iraqi Parliament, the delegates express their glee over the "useful idiots" in the West.

[notyourregularhandle]

So should we stop this dictator or not?

My God, YES! I want nothing more for that a**hole to be stopped... (not EXILED...STOPPED) but the question remains...who, when, and how...

My views aren't unreasonable guys...does this ring a bell? FLASHBACK TO FOUR MONTHS AGO..."It's a matter of weeks" "It's a matter of weeks."...Our President is holding back, and I respect him for that...I'm also making the point that because we're surrounded by the blood thirsty liberal media, the longer he does, (while calling for war) the better the chance that we will loose him as our president in 2004...