Looks up, sees it is MPSIMS. Ignores previous post.
I can’t attend big crowd events these days due to a back injury but the Melbourne one looked amazing on the television. Some people who went said at times it was hard to breathe and that they were aware of how easily it could have gone wrong, but it didn’t.
Y’know, if Bluesman had done so in the proper forum, or in a thread devoted to such questions, or if he had shown the slightest scrap of factual evidence why we should believe him about anything (like, say, his credentials for making such a statement) instead of simply kvetching that there are apparently at least several million people in Western democracies who vehemently diagree with him, then I (and maybe even some of the other posters) might bother listening.
Since this is not the case, however, I hope nobody else will hijack this thread any further. If you think we’re patsies, fine, that’s your prerogative, but this is not the place for it.
Dunno how it went.
I’m for the war.
Heh. I saw one or two Palestinian flags… as well as flags from Haiti, Cameroon, India, Israel, the US, Argentina, Venezuela, Italy… oooh and one or two Canadian and Quebec ones 
No protests here. Probably because there is nothing of interest in Michigan to bomb ( the lions do that enough…[size-1]rimshot [/size]
I am envious of anyone who had something to march on.
I did, however, put a ‘V’ hand symbol on the back of my van that says, “Groovy”. That should bring Saddam to his knees.
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That has to be one of the biggest, if not the biggest, protest that Canada has ever had.
I heckled them.
The one in Auckland was neat - lots of people. My old high school had a banner up - good to see. I know that lots of Aucklanders wont do a thing to make the Dubya pause, but hopefully our polititians will see the way public sentiment falls, and not fall to the ‘diplomatic arm-twisting’ of Washington.
We had one women here in town climb a billboard right off of a major highway and put up a giant sign that read “Frodo has failed - Bush has the ring”.
I’m not sure what to make of that.
It was a “Hooters” board no less.
It’s either very thoughtful - or unintentionally very funny.
Canada has protests now? Whoa.
I posted my report from NYC here. Great job everyone!
The cold’s not much of an excuse for not protesting. We had a high of just above 20F today in New York and that didn’t deter more than half a million people.
I was sent this picture a couple of weeks ago. 
matt_mcl, weren’t there more than 100,000 protesting the FTAA in Quebec in April 2001?
I just heard on the radio news that they have around 250,000 at the Sydney rally. Coooool.
There are also protests in Brisbane and Adelaide today, so it will be interesting to see how many in total for Aus-wide over the weekend.
Are you hearing us Johnnie???
Not to my knowledge. The cites I heard ranged from 20,000 to 50,000. (Eh, I was there as well )
Nevell Chamberlain must be a personal hero to all you folks.
Yea, it’s something to be real proud of alright. :rolleyes:
There was a march in northern michigan, maybe 100 people tops.
Michael Moore (Bowling For Columbine) was there.
NEWS UPDATE: 300,000 in Sydney. WHOOOOOO HOOOOOO
Are ya hearing us NOW John Howard???
Why don’t you guys call it the “Let Saddam Have Nukes So He Can Wipe Out Israel and Invade Kuwait and Saudi Arabia” rally, since that’s ultimately what you’re supporting?
Kyla, the rally in San Francisco is tomorrow (Sunday Feb 16). Today was
::GASP!!:: Why, a comparison of people against war with Iraq to Neville Chamberlain? This totally original concept shakes my ideals to the core! Oh, if only SOME thoughtful conservative had made this comparison before, I would have seen the fallacy of peace and not marched, but now I fear it is too late…
Seriously, if I hear that one more time, I’m going to become upset.
LC