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    Anyone Else March for Peace Today ?

    I joined a couple of hundred Calgarians in a pro-peace rally this afternoon. I ended up marching under the Communist Party banner (they had the bongos). Today is the first anniversary of the unprovolked American invasion of Iraq.

    Hopefully others at OT will also be doing their bit to protest US imperialism.

    Az asked me almost exactly one year ago to qualify my comments that the US had not won and would not win the war in Iraq. At the time I said " Ask me again next year. "

    When I have more time, I'll respond.
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    I've been too busy sleeping.

    Though I did take a picture of yesterday's pathetic campus rally.
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    • #3
      Az asked me almost exactly one year ago to qualify my comments that the US had not won and would not win the war in Iraq. At the time I said " Ask me again next year. "


      Yet, we've won the war. And are slowly winning the peace.
      “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
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      • #4
        Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
        Az asked me almost exactly one year ago to qualify my comments that the US had not won and would not win the war in Iraq. At the time I said " Ask me again next year. "


        Yet, we've won the war. And are slowly winning the peace.
        Hahahahahahahahahaha !!!!

        There's nothing wrong with the dream, my friend, the problem lies with the dreamer.

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        • #5
          Laughing at the truth... wouldn't expect any less from a dirty commie .
          “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
          - John 13:34-35 (NRSV)

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          • #6
            I didn't. w00t!
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            • #7
              I'm not a commie, though I have voted communist a couple of times.

              There seemed to be a lack of NDP there, or I probably would have marched with them.

              ... especially if they had bongos.
              There's nothing wrong with the dream, my friend, the problem lies with the dreamer.

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              • #8
                Re: Anyone Else March for Peace Today ?

                Originally posted by Uncle Sparky
                Today is the first anniversary of the unprovolked American invasion of Iraq.
                "Unprovolked?" I don't remember anything about a polka.

                I saw the newsclips of all the protests today and started laughing. What was the point? Congratulations you demonstrated you are against the war. Its not like we didn't already know that.

                Oh, your AGAINST the war! I thought the first 212 times you said that you were just kidding. My bad, your serious, your against the war. Now that you've wasted a whole day standing outside I guess we believe you now.

                I just don't see how these protests accomplished anything.

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                • #9
                  Yet, we've won the war. And are slowly winning the peace.
                  Most Iraqis would appear to agree with this.

                  [Ask all]
                  Q2 - Compared to a year ago, I mean before the war in Spring 2003, are things
                  overall in your life much better now, somewhat better, about the same,
                  somewhat worse or much worse?

                  Base = All respondents
                  %
                  Much better now 21.9
                  Somewhat better 34.6
                  About the same 23.3
                  Somewhat worse 12.7
                  Much worse 5.9
                  Difficult to say 1.6
                  Total 100.0


                  [Ask all]
                  Q3 - What is your expectation for how things overall in your life will be in a year
                  from now? Will they be much better, somewhat better, about the same,
                  somewhat worse or much worse?

                  Base = All respondents
                  %
                  Much better 36.7
                  Somewhat better 34.3
                  About the same 9.4
                  Somewhat worse 3.2
                  Much worse 3.4
                  Difficult to say 12.8
                  Total 100.0
                  These are from a BBC opinion poll that was released a few days ago:

                  http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/15_03_04_iraqsurvey.pdf


                  Warning: it's 27 pages of statistics. It's not all as rosy as we might hope for but it looks promising.

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                  • #10
                    Sorry can't march today. I'm busy working for imperialism. I don't entirely agreee with unprovoked. I personally think that 92 would have been the optimum time to remove Saddam. If you want to protest against imperialism why don't you protest against your mother countries imperialism. Tony Blair was at least as responsible as our President if not more for the recent war.
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                    • #11
                      These peace marches are retarded

                      What exactly is the point of them?

                      I can see the point a year ago, but NOW?

                      I saw alot of the people at the LA march and they were just a bunch of born again hippies in their 50s trying to relive the old days. I'm sure they make the excursion every now and then to try and rekindle the fire.

                      What exactly do the protesters want the Coalition to do? Leave? Brilliant.

                      Then what?

                      Look at Iraq a year from now. Things will have gotten better. Things have gotten better. And things will continue to get better. After June when power is retuned to Iraq, the acceleration of rebuilding will be more rapid.

                      But these peace marches are retarded.
                      Last edited by Ted Striker; March 20, 2004, 20:43.
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                      • #12
                        Cool. So you guys marching are for the imprisonment of Iraqis and for the murder of Iraqis? Just wonderful. I hope you put your heads down in shame while you march because your stupidity. "Peace" marches? How can anybody call them "peace" marches? They are pro-Saddam marches and are stupid and incidentally only protest Bush because the people protesting hate Bush. That's the only reason. None of the people in the marches give a damn about the Iraqi people.
                        For there is [another] kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions -- indifference, inaction, and decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. - Bobby Kennedy (Mindless Menance of Violence)

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                        • #13
                          It's not all as rosy as we might hope for but it looks promising.


                          Indeed... we can't be disuaded from our mission, bow to pressure and leave before the infrastructure is in place to put Iraq on its way.
                          “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
                          - John 13:34-35 (NRSV)

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                          • #14
                            The left want us to withdraw from Iraq now if we did at this point there would be a very strong chance of either thuggish Hussein-type Baathists or Islamic Fundamentalists would take power. Not exactly good for the Iraqi people, but it would hurt the US which seems to be the left's main goal nowadays.
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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by Giancarlo
                              Cool. So you guys marching are for the imprisonment of Iraqis and for the murder of Iraqis? Just wonderful. I hope you put your heads down in shame while you march because your stupidity. "Peace" marches? How can anybody call them "peace" marches? They are pro-Saddam marches and are stupid and incidentally only protest Bush because the people protesting hate Bush. That's the only reason. None of the people in the marches give a damn about the Iraqi people.
                              Why can't they be for peace and also hate bush but not be pro-saddam. I think they are called peace marches because they are for the absence of people shooting at eachother. How come you are not over in Iraq since you're so gung-ho?
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                              What can make a nigga wanna loose all faith in/Anything that he can't feel through his chest wit sensation

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