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Guest · Posted: Sun Jan 19, 2003 8:25 am Post subject: A WORLD AGAINST WAR

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=370714

Guest · Posted: Sun Jan 19, 2003 9:21 am Post subject: Thousands Oppose a Rush to War

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12152-2003Jan18.html

Thousands Oppose a Rush to War

Chill Doesn't Cool Fury Over U.S. Stand on Iraq By Manny Fernandez and Justin Blum
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, January 19, 2003; Page A01 Tens of thousands of antiwar demonstrators converged on Washington yesterday, making a thunderous presence in the bitter cold and assembling in the shadow of the Capitol dome to oppose a U.S. military strike against Iraq.

Throughout a morning rally on the Mall and an afternoon march to the Washington Navy Yard in Southeast, activists criticized the Bush administration for rushing into a war that they claimed would kill thousands of Iraqi civilians, spell disaster for the national economy and set a dangerous and unjustified first-strike precedent for U.S. foreign policy.

They delivered that message on a day when being outdoors tested everyone's endurance. Men, women and children fought off temperatures no higher than 24 degrees in ski masks and goggles, stashes of hot soup in containers in their backpacks. Many sneaked away momentarily to warm up on an idling bus or to grab a cup of coffee.

"The world is cold, but our hearts are warm," Jesse Jackson told the crowd to applause. He was one of many speakers, who included civil rights leader Al Sharpton from New York, actress Jessica Lange and Rep. John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.).

Organizers of the demonstration, the activist coalition International ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism), said the protest was larger than one they sponsored in Washington in October. District police officials suggested then that about 100,000 attended, and although some organizers agreed, they have since put the number closer to 200,000. This time, they said, the turnout was 500,000. Police Chief Charles H. Ramsey would not provide an estimate but said it was bigger than October's. "It's one of the biggest ones we've had, certainly in recent times," he said.

Local and federal police presence was light, and Ramsey said there were only a couple of minor incidents. A U.S. Capitol Police spokeswoman reported two arrests, one for disorderly conduct and one for writing graffiti on a Library of Congress building.

D.C. Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department officials said three people were taken to hospitals, including a woman who had a seizure. The health problems were not believed serious and were not weather-related, officials said.

Thousands attended similar rallies in cities including San Francisco and Tampa as well as in other countries. Organizers selected yesterday for protests partly because of the approaching Jan. 27 deadline for the first major report by weapons inspectors in Iraq, a date many activists said could trigger war. The events were also meant to mark the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, and many speakers invoked his legacy.

Regardless of the exact number, the crowd yesterday on the Mall was the largest antiwar demonstration here since the Vietnam era. For the 11 a.m. rally, much of four long blocks of the Mall was packed, shoulder-to-shoulder in many sections from Third to Seventh streets SW between Madison and Jefferson drives. The first marchers stepped off about 1:30 p.m., and when many had begun reaching the Navy Yard more than two dozen blocks away about an hour later, others were still leaving the rally site.

Those who hoped that President Bush and much of Congress would witness the thousands in the streets of Washington were out of luck; the president was at Camp David, and most members of Congress were away for the weekend.

It hardly mattered to some. Marchers spoke of a surging grass-roots political power.

"The antiwar movement is now at a whole new level," said Tony Murphy, a spokesman for International ANSWER, which was formed three days after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks as a response to the Bush administration's war on terrorism at home and abroad. "Now we're talking about a force that can really stop the war. It's not just a hopeful attitude. It's a real sense that it's possible," he said.

The demonstration drew people of all walks of life, from both coasts and all points in between, as scores of college students, 30-something families and senior citizens traveled to Washington by charter bus, car caravan, plane, train and -- in the case of one determined Iowa State University student -- foot.

On the snow-covered grass of the Mall and in the narrow streets along the march through Southeast Washington, handwritten signs and banners bobbed, distilling the day: "War is not a Christian belief," "No blood for oil," "Freezing out here for peace."

"We want peace," said Mari Anderson, 59, of Titusville, Fla., a chemical specialist at a power plant who drove 14 hours to Washington with a friend and walked along Pennsylvania Avenue NW yesterday morning to join the throngs rallying on the Mall. "We want diplomatic solutions. Saddam Hussein hasn't done anything to us in 11 years."

Alex Maertens, 30, of Southeast Washington, made time in her day to join the protest. "I don't like having to march with people who are sentimental fools, but I happen to think that this war is an immense mistake," said Maertens, a toxicologist studying at Johns Hopkins University. "The burden of proof is on us, and that case has not been established."

Marching with a packed crowd along Independence Avenue SE was Nancy Paton, 49, who came to Washington with her 23-year-old daughter on one of four busloads from her Westland, Mich., interfaith church. Paton said she had never been part of a political protest before. "I kind of felt powerless to do anything about this proposed war on Iraq," she said, adding that she was moved to join the protest because the war "is more about oil than terrorism. After this war in Afghanistan, it seems like Bush just wants to keep going."

Through the day, the debate over whether the United States should use military force against Hussein spilled onto the sidewalks and street corners of the city's center and outside the gates of the Navy Yard. Counter-protesters, some organized and others not, offered their opinion of the antiwar activists.

"You guys should go get a job," said a man traveling in a black sport utility vehicle that pulled over briefly to heckle protesters on Pennsylvania Avenue NW. Later in the day, on the Pennsylvania Avenue SE march route, a group of people sharing a bottle of champagne on a second-floor balcony displayed a sign reading, "Hippies Go Home." Protesters responded, "We are home."

When the march approached Eighth and I streets SE outside the U.S. Marine Corps barracks, about 50 counter-protesters -- including veterans -- continued their rally, chanting "Swim to Cuba" and "We gave peace a chance; We got 9/11." In return, the protesters shouted, "We don't want your oil war." The march stopped for 10 minutes, and Ramsey walked up and down the lines of officers separating the marchers and the counter-protesters.

Exchanges proved far more civil elsewhere.

On a Blue Line Metro train headed for the Mall, one goateed, middle-aged man loudly lectured other protesters -- and everyone else within earshot -- about the history of Iraq and how the United States was complicit in every development there in the past 50 years. Some fellow riders listened intently and thanked him as he left the train at Smithsonian Station.

Activists cited a number of reasons why -- in the middle of a numbingly cold Washington winter, for a $35 to $110 seat on a packed bus spending anywhere from a couple to more than 24 hours on the road -- they came to the capital. Some said they were pacifists opposed to war no matter the circumstance. Others said they were moved to action because they felt the Bush administration was rushing into an unjustified war with Iraq and that they viewed the march as a kind of election in which to cast a vote through their presence.

"I am here to tell people who might have questions about the war that they're not alone," said Brian Harrison, 21, a Texas college student who took a 27-hour, charter-bus ride from Houston to join the demonstration. "So many people are so riled up about the war that they're willing to travel great distances to physically testify their opposition."

The cold, though, was never far from the minds of the protesters, including Harrison, who said he had never seen snow on the ground. "I've actually never been this cold before," he said.

But Shelby Berkowitz, 32, a graduate student in psychology from Lansing, Mich., asked, "What's the suffering from standing out in the cold compared to the suffering inflicted by U.S. policies in the world?"

Antiwar demonstrations are scheduled to continue today in Washington. Youths and students who took part in yesterday's march plan their own demonstration, with an 11 a.m. rally and march from the Department of Justice to the White House.

Civil disobedience is planned at the White House by D.C. Iraq Pledge of Resistance and United for Peace. After an 11:30 a.m. rally at Farragut Square, hundreds will risk arrest to show their opposition to war, organizers said.

At the end of yesterday's march about 5 p.m., protesters said they were pleased and hoped that the Bush administration would hear their message. "It turned out very well despite the weather," said Jon Mays, 32, an engineer from Clinton. "It made me proud that we have people that are coming together for one cause."

Staff writers David A. Fahrenthold, Avram Goldstein, Hamil R. Harris, Chris L. Jenkins, Carol Morello and Monte Reel and the Associated Press contributed to this report.

Guest · Posted: Sun Jan 19, 2003 7:35 pm Post subject:

200,000 thousand? And that is the organizers' number.

Wow.

The population of the DC area is over 4,000,000.

And you had to go across the country and even farther to get 200,000.

"British Parliament member Jeremy Corbyn traveled to Washington for the rally. " -- CNN

"The rally is one of dozens organized in 25 countries by the group Act Now to Stop War and End Racism (ANSWER). The group said it had organized transportation from more than 200 cities in 45 states for the rallies in Washington and San Francisco." -- CNN

"In Lansing, Mich., several hundred people met at a church before marching 20 blocks... " --AP. Population of Lansing: 127,716

"In Des Moines, Iowa, about 125 protesters marched two miles ..." -- AP. Population of Des Moines: 198,682. 15,713 of them are foreign born.

"In Portland, Ore., police said at least 20,000 people marched through downtown." -- AP. Population of Portland: 538,180.

"Tens of thousands also demonstrated in San Francisco" -- AP. Population of San Francisco: 728,921 (1992); Population of UC Berkeley: 33,145

"About 400 people, many of them elderly, gathered in downtown Venice, Fla..." -- AP. Population of Venice area: 150,000

"But 5,000 people marched through downtown Tokyo..." -- AP. Population of Tokyo: 8,200,000

"60 protesters in Hong Kong shouted, "War, no," " -- AP. Population of Hong Kong: 7,303,334

"More than 400 New Zealanders demonstrated in Christchurch..." -- AP. Population of New Zealand: 3,908,037

"In Moscow, a few hundred people agitated outside the U.S. Embassy." -- AP. Population of Moscow: 8,700,000

Guest · Posted: Sun Jan 19, 2003 8:17 pm Post subject:

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Support Ebbs for U.S. War Plans By Karen DeYoung:

http://www.warwithoutend.co.uk/middle-east-and-asia/2003/01/19/support-ebbs-for-u-s-war-plans-by-karen-deyoung.php

Guest · Posted: Sun Jan 19, 2003 8:55 pm Post subject:

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The Zionist Wolf of the White House Pushing US to War

Paul Wolfowitz, an Israeli citizen?
Date: 1/19/03 1:58:38 PM Pacific Standard Time
From: BGJDAVID

Note that Paul Wolfowitz has a sister married to an Israeli. I assume they
are living there. Cozy, eh?

I wonder if Wolfowitz has Israeli citizenship. Anyone?

http://www.hoffman-info.com/inferno.html

Last week we were told that it was President Bush who put forth the new,
pivotal National Military Defense Strategy. But Bush's keynote defense
doctrine was lifted almost verbatim from a 1992 directive by Paul Wolfowitz

The Wolf of the White House

by Michael A. Hoffman II

The New York Times Magazine has confirmed what many have suspected, that
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is a figurehead and that the man actually
responsible for setting America's military policy is the "Israel-centric"
Paul Wolfowitz, the fanatical Zionist, architect of the bombing of civilians
in Afghanistan, and the main administration advocate of war on Iraq. In the
waning days of the Ford administration, the C.I.A. director at that time,
George Bush Sr., appointed Wolfowitz to serve on an intelligence panel
(Wolfowitz first infiltrated the Federal government under Nixon):

"Student deferments kept him out of the military draft during the Vietnam
War...In the first days after Sept. 11, when Secretary of State Powell and
others within the administration contended it was too early to put Iraq on
the agenda -- that there was a war to win in Afghanistan first and that
there was no evidence Iraq was complicit in the attacks on the Pentagon and
the twin towers -- Wolfowitz argued that Iraq was at the heart of the
threat...

"...leaving aside the offensive suggestion of dual loyalty...you hear from
some of Wolfowitz's critics, always off the record...that Israel exercises a
powerful gravitational pull on the man...as a teenager he spent his father's
sabbatical semester in Israel...his sister is married to an Israeli...he is
friendly with Israel's generals and diplomats...he is something of a hero to
the heavily Jewish neoconservative movement...

"Charles Fairbanks... a Johns Hopkins political scientist who has known
Wolfowitz since college...(and) who...worked for Wolfowitz in the
policy-planning office of the State Department, recalls him as...ardent on
the subject of certain regimes he regarded as outside the norms of civilized
behavior, including the radical Baath party of Iraq and Muammar el-Qaddafi's
Libya. 'I once presented talking points on Libya, which I considered very
tough. He said: 'You don't understand. I really want to destroy Qaddafi, not
just constrain him." (End quote from the NY Times magazine).

Wolfowitz is an ally of Israeli war criminals and Likud party leaders Ariel
Sharon and Binyamin Netanyahu, both of whom subscribe to the Zionist
"Masada" complex, the mystical suicide course charted by racist "settler"
rabbis who place seizure of the whole of Palestine on the highest level of
priority, above all other geo-political considerations. This crazed policy
orientation would destroy the Israeli state were it not for unlimited
American taxpayer subsidies in the form of arms and cash.

When this Masada complex becomes prevalent within the host state itself--the
U.S.--then the same deterioration of the Israeli economy and government is
bound to occur in America, because no state can govern on the basis of
mystical suicide without imploding under the weight of its own violence,
corruption and irrationality. In a sense, Wolfowitz and his numerous
co-conspirators, such as the equally rabid Richard Perle, are the
gravediggers of not only the Zionist entity but of the U.S. itself. After a
brief spasm of planetary dominion, the U.S. is beginning to sink inexorably
as the crazed Likud philosophy of mystical rabbinic governance gains a
stranglehold in Washington D.C.

The rule of thumb is as follows: Judaism and Zionism = delusion. The more
American officials are influenced by Judaism and Zionism, or actually are
agents of Judaism and Zionism, the more delusional they will become. Any
healthy criticism of this process will be treated as "offensive" to the
sensibilities of the Holy People and therefore career-destroying and
virtually illegal (a form of terrorism).

Last week we were told that it was President Bush who put forth the new,
pivotal National Military Defense Strategy. However, as revealed in the
Sept. 22, 2002 "New York Times Magazine," George W. Bush's keynote defense
doctrine was lifted almost verbatim from a 1992 directive by Wolfowitz:

"...the new worldview evolving in the Bush administration...
interventionist...less sensitive to alliance diplomacy -- is one created
more at the Pentagon than the State Department and one to which Wolfowitz
has brought intellectual weight.... This Defense Department tends to define
leadership as... including a willingness to act unilaterally if need be and
to employ muscle. Rumsfeld and Cheney, who have been friends since the Nixon
administration, are visceral advocates of this more assertive view, but
Wolfowitz is its theorist -- its Kissinger, as one admirer put it.

"In 1992, in what would turn out to be the last year of the first Bush
administration, Wolfowitz, then under-secretary for policy in Cheney's
Defense Department, presided over the writing of a new 'Defense Planning
Guidance,' a broad directive to military leaders on what to prepare for. An
early draft proposed that with the demise of the Soviet Union the United
States doctrine should be to assure that no new superpower arose to rival
America's benign domination of the globe. The U.S. would defend its unique
status both by being militarily powerful beyond challenge and by being such
a constructive force that no one would want to challenge us. We would
participate in coalitions, but they would be 'ad hoc.'

"The U.S. would be 'postured to act independently when collective action
cannot be orchestrated.' The guidance envisioned pre-emptive attacks against
states bent on acquiring nuclear, biological or chemical weapons. It was
accompanied by illustrative scenarios of hypothetical wars for which the
military should be prepared. One of them was another war against Iraq, where
Saddam had already rebounded from his gulf-war defeat and was busily
crushing domestic unrest...That now seems to have become the Bush
doctrine..." End quote from "The Sunshine Warrior" by Bill Keller, NY Times
Magazine, Sept. 22, 2002.

Guest

Subj: 500,000 March on Washington Against War W...
Date: 1/19/03 6:38:47 PM Pacific Standard Time

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> 500,000 Anti-War Protesters Demonstrate in Washington
> 200,00 March in San Francisco
> Hundreds of Thousands More Demonstrate Around the World
> To Oppose U.S. War With Iraq
>
> Half a million people marched through the streets of
> Washington Saturday and 200,000 demonstrated in San
> Francisco in the largest U.S. demonstrations yet against
> war with Iraq.
>
> Sponsored by the International A.N.S.W.E.R. (Act Now to
> Stop War & End Racism) Coalition, the protests were
> endorsed by thousands of organizations. Similar
> demonstrations were held in at least 30 other countries.
>
> "Today's demonstrations shattered the myth of consensus
> for war," said Mara Verheyden-Hilliard of the Partnership
> for Civil Justice, one of the groups in A.N.S.W.E.R.
> "Throughout the whole world, demonstrations today showed
> the kind of people's power it's going to take to stop the
> war in its tracks."
>
> January 18 was a day of global protest based in the U.S.,
> with coordinated demonstrations held in more than 30
> countries -- including Japan, Ireland, Egypt, Spain,
> Argentina, South Africa, Jordan, Belgium, Syria, Hong
> Kong, Russia, Germany and Britain.
>
> Announcing a week of anti-war protest for the week of
> February 13-21 -- and culminating with a Student and Youth
> Day of Action on the anniversary of the assassination of
> Malcolm X -- organizers of the January 18 demonstration
> joined the call of the European movement to make Februrary
> 15 the next step in the worldwide anti-war movement.
>
> The morning of the demonstration, train and subway
> stations in D.C. were jammed as hundreds of buses --
> including 20 from New York's 1199/SEIU Health and Hospital
> Workers Union, 20 from Winston-Salem South Carolina, eight
> from Rochester and six from the Chicago Teachers Union --
> arrived in the city for the massive protest.
>
> The rally featured such speakers as former U.S. Attorney
> General Ramsey Clark, civil rights activist Mahdi Bray,
> actors Jessica Lange and Tyne Daly, Representative John
> Conyers, Reverend Jesse Jackson, former Congresswoman
> Cynthia McKinney, author and Vietnam vet Ron Kovic, singer
> Patti Smith, Reverend Herbert Daughtry, and Elizabeth
> McAllister.
>
> The program -- with musical performances by British pop
> group Chumbawumba, singer Patti Smith, and a capella duet
> Pam Parker and Lucy Murphy -- was opened by Moonanum James
> of United American Indians of New England.
>
> Speakers included A.N.S.W.E.R. leaders Elias Rashmawi,
> Free Palestine Alliance; Peta Lindsay, A.N.S.W.E.R. Youth
> & Student Coordinator; Larry Holmes and Brian Becker,
> International Action Center; Mara Verheyden-Hilliard,
> Partnership for Civil Justice; Marie Hilao Enriquez,
> BAYAN; Macrina Cardenas, Mexico Solidarity Network; Chuck
> Kaufman, Nicaragua Solidarity Network; Yoomi Jeong, Korea
> Truth Commission; Cheri Honkala, Kensington Welfare Rights
> Union; and Ismail Kamal, Muslim Students Association
> National. Reverend Lucius Walker read an anti-war
> statement from Rep. Charles Rangel.
>
> Also addressing the rally were representatives of groups
> such as New York City Labor Against the War, Maryland and
> D.C. AFL-CIO, Colombia Trade Unionists in Exile, Queers
> for Peace and Justice, United for Peace and Justice, Not
> In Our Name, and representatives of the Committee for the
> Rescue and Development of Vieques. Speakers reminded the
> crowd that the fight against war and racism included the
> struggles to free political prisoners Mumia Abu Jamal,
> Leonard Peltier, Jamil Al Amin, and the Cuban Five.
>
> end
>
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Guest · Posted: Mon Jan 20, 2003 4:53 am Post subject:

Ya, ya, ya. So we heard.

0.25% of the US population objected to a war that hasn't happened.

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How the Press Downplayed the Protests:

http://www.counterpunch.org/madsen01182003.html

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