{"article":{"id":38662,"heading":"Dumbass Protestors -- Yes, You!","author":"Jeff Marzola","created":"2003-03-23 03:38:16","modified":"2013-11-10 23:49:13","last_modified":"Mon, 11 Nov 2013 06:49:13","article":"

Very simply:

None of you are going to shut down shit. Sit in all the doorways and streets you want -- the police will just haul you away like bags of garbage.

By blocking traffic and committing similar acts of “civil disobedience” you are only acting out against other little people who are just as powerless as you are to do anything about what our government does. If you really want to start a revolution, then why not arm yourselves, go to Washington, and put foot to ass?

Oh, but you're not ready to take it that far, are you? You're content to stay home and throw your mass, public tantrums and pat yourselves on the back afterward b\/c it makes you feel good -- being there with all those other people, working towards a common goal and all. And, really, that's great. But you're going to need to do a whole lot more than what you're doing now, along with a lot more people -- more than you have now -- before bringing as little as one city to its knees.

You're nothing but knats on a water buffalo’s ass.

And you are only tolerated. You are merely allowed to be on the streets with your signs and slogans. If it were any different and we truly lived in the police state some of you claim we do, the great majority of you would be too scared to say anything that might remotely be considered subversive.

\"Shut down San Fran, etc...\" Fucking laughable!

Yeah, good luck with that.

<\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"You're just fooling yourselves. All of you.","numcomment":39,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2003\/03\/38662.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":38669,"heading":"hahahahaha","article":"i love it when dumbfuck rednecks post shit like this. it means that these protests are really pissing off the right people.\r\n\r\ni am not interested in appeasing you or you're lapdog support for the rich plutocracy that runs this government. You're part of a TINY minority compared to the 30 million people worldwide that have protested this war.\r\n\r\ngo listen to whatever corporate media outlet that spoon feeds you your steady diet of lies.\r\n\r\n\r\n","author":"working class joe","parent_id":38662,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-23 03:53:23","modified":"2003-03-23 03:53:23","fileurl":""},{"id":38683,"heading":"FUCK INDYMEDIA!","article":"No this dude prolly just to poor and has too many responsibilities, prolly doesn't wear cool hip colorful clothing, doesn't listen to crappy vegan punk, and dosent have 5000 ft of cloth or poster paper laying around.\r\nThe "sheeple"are the true master's of the universe, their uncaring eyes shall forever see the truth.","author":"Rant","parent_id":38662,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-23 04:06:38","modified":"2003-03-23 04:06:38","fileurl":""},{"id":38686,"heading":"Haha","article":"30 million protesters worldwide??\r\n\r\nHmm.... 30 million people out of 6.5 Billion....\r\n\r\nLets see if we can figure something out....\r\n\r\n30 million people would equal .0046% of the world population? Yeah, we're definitely in the minority! HAHAHAHAHA\r\n\r\nI'm going to be dancing in the streets when Bush wins in 2004, and the Republicans take even more seats in the house and senate! There's a backlash in the country against the democratic party, and the greens\/independents won't get any help either. People in my town have been out every single day in the hundreds holding pro-war signs, support Bush, support your troops... We get nothing but honks. Even my college is pro-war. My Air Force ROTC unit gets more people to show up for our counter rallies against people of your ilk. Last weekend we outnumbered you people 3 to 1.... \r\n\r\nI'm glad that to see that protesters are ignorant enough to believe that .0046% of the world population is a majority!\r\n","author":"Joe from NY","parent_id":38662,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-23 04:10:28","modified":"2003-03-23 04:10:28","fileurl":""},{"id":38694,"heading":"Mr.","article":"Let's get some facts straight:\r\nSaddam has slaughtered close to a million of his own people.\r\nMost of his people and even his own army go hungry while he craps on gold toilets.\r\nNo one has freedom of speech in Iraq. Speak out against him and he cuts your tongue out in front of your family.\r\nHe funds terrorism towards the U.S.\r\n\r\n... and we're listening to Hollywood protesters that make a living tell lies very well and the vast majority haven't graduated from college?\r\n\r\nMaybe it's time for the left to shut up and think for a change.","author":"Common Sense","parent_id":38662,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-23 04:27:47","modified":"2003-03-23 04:27:47","fileurl":""},{"id":38697,"heading":"Judging by all the Trolls...","article":"...it means the Protests are getting traction. The one thing that really drives them berserk is that they get bigger each time. As more people wake up to how their country is being hijacked by a monied Cabal whose only interests are more money and more power more people will take part.\r\n\r\nKeep pushing it is having an effect otherwise the Freeper Brownshirts would barely notice. They certainly would not be piling in.\r\n\r\nAs a foot note at the protest in my locale I saw quite a few people dressed comfortably Middle Class carrying signs and taking part in the protests.\r\n\r\nKeep Pushing.","author":"Diogenes","parent_id":38662,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-23 04:34:27","modified":"2003-03-23 04:34:27","fileurl":""},{"id":38701,"heading":"Ignorant Warmongers!","article":"Sadly, these war-loving racist fools have their heads so far up Bush's ass and lapping up the shit he keeps pumping in their heads that they can't open their eyes and minds wide enough to go search for the truth. \r\nInstead of making such idiotic comments to us intelligent \u201clefties", why don't you go read up on the history of the world or even travel the world and learn about other cultures and people. Don't stay so close-minded. Don't teach your children to discriminate and be racist just because your parents were. Stop the vicious cycle! I have hope for you. It's never too late to educate yourselves and find peace within yourselves so that you may spread it to the rest.\r\n\r\n"To announce that there must be no\r\ncriticism of the President or\r\nthat we are to stand by the President\r\nright or wrong is not only\r\nunpatriotic and servile\r\nbut it is morally treasonable to the\r\nAmerican public."\r\n\r\n-Theodore Roosevelt, 1918\r\n\r\n","author":"Rich & Educated Peacemonger","parent_id":38662,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-23 04:39:49","modified":"2013-11-10 23:49:13","fileurl":""},{"id":38704,"heading":"Nah Vasili","article":"It means people are getting tired of you commie assholes spinning your wheels and kicking up a bunch of dust.\r\n\r\nWhen the war is over this bump in your little movement will flatten out and you communist vampira will crawl back into your caves.","author":"Odoul","parent_id":38662,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-23 04:44:56","modified":"2003-03-23 04:44:56","fileurl":""},{"id":38705,"heading":"Ranting may feel good","article":"But it doesn't pay the bills, does it? And believe me, the bills are coming due. Peak oil, meaning its all downhill from there, will occur around 2010 or so. Natural gas is in the same ballpark. Coal? I don't think so. And this is going to happen no matter who is in charge of the cash register. \r\n\r\nBush, Cheney, et al, are simply cashing in while they can, and they got you all fooled into thinking its "patriotic." \r\n\r\nNow, you could take another tack, say start electing people with actual brains who will do things like actually prepare for such eventualities in concert with the rest of the human race. . .No? I didn't actually think so. I fear its genetic in your case.\r\n\r\nIt seems that most of you are classic cases of the "flying leap" school of thought: you've just jumped off a skyscraper, and you are exhilirated by the rush of air! You think, "Who could not like this? It's actually fun! Nothing to be afraid of!" And you will keep thinking this ,up until you actually impact the ground.\r\n\r\nWell, as they say, better luck next time. . .","author":"Point","parent_id":38662,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-23 04:48:43","modified":"2003-03-23 04:48:43","fileurl":""},{"id":38706,"heading":"Go have another Beer Troll","article":"Dissent from a morally indefensible action is a high form of Patriotism.\r\n\r\n"Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn\u2019t. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and inexcusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may." - Mark Twain\r\n","author":"Diogenes","parent_id":38662,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-23 04:50:37","modified":"2013-11-10 23:49:13","fileurl":""},{"id":38709,"heading":"Capitolist Pigs","article":"Jeff: I bet you watch Pat Robertson on CBC don't you? Is that your news source? In case your ignorant pea brain hasn't figured it out, CNN and all the other local and national mass media outlets flat out lie. It was reported that only 55,000 people attended Seattle's F15 rally when in reality, over 100,000 showed up. So you are either in denial that more people are against this war or you are completely saturated by the very media you race home every day to plop your fat in front of right? The one that lies... I suppose you have also conveniently forgotten that 12 years of sanctions to Iraq to right? what the hell is your problem? You like to drive. \r\n\r\nI'm glad we are pissing you off. And don't worry, the more that go to jail, the more that will come out of the woodwork. \r\n\r\nI guarantee we'll continue to piss greedy asshole's like you off.. ","author":"Juan","parent_id":38662,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-23 05:01:06","modified":"2003-03-23 05:01:06","fileurl":""},{"id":38711,"heading":"Why Even Respond to Uneducated Followers of Bush?","article":"Remember, the pro-death folks that are trying to push our buttons are ignorant of what real life is... if anything, we should feel bad that they will never experience what it means to be truly alive because they are stuck with a narrow vision of fascistic nationalism. They have been taught what to think for so many years that there is no truth that can shake them. They can change, but unfortunately, with the amount of brainwashing they have undergone, it is very difficult. Hopefully, one day they will be able to think independently and critically. Until then, speak truth to power.","author":"Mike","parent_id":38662,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-23 05:04:43","modified":"2003-03-23 05:04:43","fileurl":""},{"id":38713,"heading":"Ahhh... another day, another idiot.","article":"It amazes me that someone could really be so blind to reality. How much TV do you watch? Do you like the propaganda? Is it fun to be so dumb? Even watching something as common as CNN, you can see the propaganda, the lies, the bullshit. Maybe there are more people blind to the war than protestors, that just means that there are more idiots, and more blindness.\r\n\r\nHere we are, at war with Al Qaeda... no wait I mean Osama Bin Laden... no wait.. Saddam Hussein.... no wait, the real problem here is Iraq (they finally decided). How did it come to this? Why are so many blind to reality?\r\n\r\nTHIS IS EA|XACTLY WHAT THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT HAS DONE!!! DON'T YOU SEE?\r\n\r\nAnd to the first commenter, this "Anti-Protestor" mongul.... I am not mad at you. I feel sorry for you.... so so sorry that everyday you go home and are blind to the truths, to reality. Have you even read about capitalism? Do you know what it is? Do you see what it has done to the world?\r\n\r\nAll because we want oil, and power, power to have weapons that 'no one else is allowed to have'. \r\nWe threatened the countries who said we were wrong.\r\nWe took away VALUABLE programs that keep America strong.\r\nWe are wasting away, as a nation, all due to the interests of the BUSH ADMINISTRATION.\r\nI am young, and I never claimed to know it all, but I do know one thing------- THIS WAR IS WRONG, AND SOME ACTION IS BETTER THAN NONE.\r\nHow effective would 'kicking everyones ass' be?\r\n\r\nIDIOT.\r\n\r\n","author":"Queen of the Hill","parent_id":38662,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-23 05:12:56","modified":"2003-03-23 05:12:56","fileurl":""},{"id":38716,"heading":"How many pro-war activitsts do you have running around?","article":"Well we have the 300,000ish 'activists' stationed in iraq, a couple thousand people at the helm of our government, another couple thousand people at the helm of our media, and we'll be real generous and assume that you freeper assholes number in a hundred thousand.\r\n\r\nThats still not even half a million people actually speaking or acting on the behalf of war. We outnumber you guys 60 to one. In reality what i've seen more often is closer to a hundred to one or more. You guys want this war so much, you say you speak for the majority, well lets see it. You can't produce though, because in reality you speak for the uninformed, and if you bring them to our rallies we will inform them and you will lose them, and you know it. \r\n\r\nSilent majority, please... More like violent minority. You think that if you bitch loudly enough in large enough groups at individual people you can control them. And maybe you can control one of us, or two of us, or three hundred thousand of us. But eventually we will realize that the public scorn that many of the uninformed have tried to avoid only comes from one or two, who are usually assholes anyways and always have been.\r\n\r\nTo any who would complain of being kept in traffic for an extra half hour, consider the idea of an incoming air raid on Main Street, USA. Then complain about traffic a little more and see how much sympathy you get.\r\n\r\nThe next time you get trapped at an intersection, get out of your car and join in. Or turn up the radio and jam out for a little while. Smoke a joint. Park your car sideways in traffic. Ladies, get naked. Delay, annoy, or heckle the police when they attempt to rob you of your civil liberties. Practice disarming agressors armed with tonfas. Practice juggling tonfas whilst smoking said joint :-) \r\n\r\nWhats the hurry anyways... does it defy your programming? \r\n\r\nNnnnnNNNooooo!!! Must...go home... and... stay home..must...be afraid... must.. WEAPONS OF MASSDESTRUCTION TERROR PEACE TERROR WAR TERROR WEAPONS OF WAR WEAPONS OF PEACE MASS WAR TERROR WEAPONS OF MASS TERROR WAR TERROR WAR Welcome to CNN.....\r\n\r\nwarhol would have had a field day with this crap...","author":"Pissed Off in Ohio","parent_id":38662,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-23 05:16:16","modified":"2003-03-23 05:16:16","fileurl":""},{"id":38717,"heading":"Back to School","article":"I am not a 'typical protestor' I grew up in suburbia, and I liked it, I like having nice stuff, nice cars, and money. However, I refuse to agree with this war. Why? BECAUSE I AM NOT BLIND.\r\n\r\nThank you.","author":"Seattletie","parent_id":38662,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-23 05:16:17","modified":"2003-03-23 05:16:17","fileurl":""},{"id":38719,"heading":"Rational","article":"I'm disappointed in the level of discourse I've read here. Saddam Hussein is an evil dictator who was installed by the Soviet Union and then supported by the US, starting with the Iran\/Iraq War of the 1980s. What George Bush is doing is in violation of International Law and of UN laws. Iraq is not a threat to the US. Iraq did not play a role in the 9\/11 incident. Iraq has the 2nd largest oil reserves in the world, after Saudi Arabia. Bush, Cheney, Powell, Rice & comapny are deeply invested in the oil industry. That Bush is willing to bomb a tiny, unarmed, 3rd world country into oblivion, at the cost of countless innocent civilian lives is a crime. In fact, if any other country had done what Bush is doing now - that is: invading a country with a leader they don't like, the perpetrators would be charged with war crimes. Read a little history and this will become obvious to you. Meanwhile the Israeli army killed a US citizen while demolishing a Palestinian home and we hear not a peep. If Saddam had done such a thing, imagine the reaction. Not that I place the life of a US citizen over the lives of the thousands of Palestinians who have been murdered by the Israeli government. I merely wish to illustrate the hypocracy of the situation.\r\n\r\nTo date Hussein has had the opportunity to use the many weapons of mass destruction Bush claims hes has, yet we've seen nothing. In fact the US, instead of taking out Iraqui chemical weapons plants has ignored them and focused instead on the oil fields. If they thought there really were WMDs, they would have focused on them first. Clearly their actions, even at this early date show the interest is in the oil.\r\n\r\nThe US funds and supports murderous dictators all over the planet and has done so for one hundred years. Where was the outrage over the El Salvadoran governments death squads, or Fernando Marcos murderous regime. What about the Shah Pahlavei's SAVAK police, which won the distinction in the 1970s ove being the worst human rights abuser in the world. The list is long and a matter of record, for those who care to or are capable of looking it up.\r\n\r\nShame on the US government for it despicable and cowardly acts of terrorism and parasitism. Truly, when you say "God Bless America," you should be asking for forgiveness for the crimes your country has foisted upon the world.","author":"Discourse","parent_id":38662,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-23 05:20:00","modified":"2003-03-23 05:20:00","fileurl":""},{"id":38722,"heading":"Then how do you account for the Pro war un-Crowd.","article":"I have yet to have you refute any of the substantive arguments on a factual basis.\r\n\r\nBA - 300,000 Trolls spewing hot air is just a lot of hot air.","author":"Diogenes","parent_id":38662,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-23 05:24:30","modified":"2003-03-23 05:24:30","fileurl":""},{"id":38724,"heading":"HIT THE STREETS!","article":"The people are in the streets all over the world! And we are going to KEEP HITTING THE STREETS so long as this IMPERIALIST war goes on.\r\n\r\nRight-wing piss ants and Neanderthal flag waving war mongers can dump all the French wine into gutters that they want... but they can't get MILLIONS to support their stupid pro-war positions.\r\n\r\nRight-wing loudmouths who love Bush SHOULD JOIN THE ARMY or SHUT THE HELL UP! You drive around in your goddamn SUV's and mouth off about how much you love America... you're just a bunch of sad, spoiled, fat and lazy pigs who let others fight for you.\r\n\r\nI dare you to organize a demonstration of support for your "great leader's" miserable oil war! When you get your 30 people together to stand around on some corner with your pathetic "We Love Bush" signs... remember the antiwar forces who march in the tens of thousands!","author":"red rocker","parent_id":38662,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-23 05:26:54","modified":"2003-03-23 05:26:54","fileurl":""},{"id":38816,"heading":"The war is going well","article":"8000 Iraqi troops surrendered just a while ago. Looks like Dubya called it right, this war is going to save many, many lives in the long run.\r\n\r\nThe UN killed over a million people with their bullshit incompetence, believing that they could actually deal with this evil tyrant.\r\n\r\nThank God for the US. (From a non- American).\r\n ","author":"Bernard","parent_id":38662,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-23 09:18:11","modified":"2003-03-23 09:18:11","fileurl":""},{"id":38829,"heading":"Resist","article":"WHEN Bush and Blair begin their illegal and immoral attack on a country that offers us no threat, we all have a choice.\r\n\r\nWe can wring our hands and say there is nothing we can do in the face of such powerful piracy - or we can reclaim the democracy that has been so corrupted by an elected dictatorship (in Bush's case, unelected).\r\n\r\nThere is only one responsible way to achieve the second goal. The polite term is civil disobedience. The street term is rebellion.\r\n\r\nIn 1946, Justice Robert Jackson, the chief prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials of the Nazi leadership, said that the "very essence" of international justice "is that individuals have international duties which transcend national obligations of obedience imposed by the state".\r\n\r\nJohn Pilger","author":"andrew","parent_id":38662,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-23 09:46:53","modified":"2003-03-23 09:46:53","fileurl":""},{"id":38906,"heading":"Liberation [BOOM]","article":"Stop it BA, people are being killed. Your\r\ncheerleading is sickening.","author":"Sheepdog","parent_id":38662,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-23 15:00:15","modified":"2003-03-23 15:00:15","fileurl":""},{"id":38911,"heading":"Well Gee","article":"Thank you for this further pronouncement.\r\nI laugh. Ha Ha.\r\nI have things to do today.\r\nentertain yourself, by for now.","author":"The Nemisis of BA's stupidity and lame script","parent_id":38662,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-23 15:12:58","modified":"2003-03-23 15:12:58","fileurl":""},{"id":38912,"heading":"Atta Boy BA....","article":"...stay on message - even if it is vacuous and empty. The only clebration the Iraqi's are likely to indulge in is that they survived the rain of Bombs. As for being grateful to see their country trashed with Depleted Uranium and H.E. - you must have been smoking your "Happy Pipe".\r\nThe ugly reality is that this is not about liberating the Iraqi people. It is about liberating the Iraqi Oil Fields for U.S. and British Oil Companies, taking out a potential adversary of Israel and a complete sell out of what this country once stood for.","author":"Diogenes","parent_id":38662,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-23 15:15:55","modified":"2003-03-23 15:15:55","fileurl":""},{"id":38917,"heading":"C'mon Diogenous, get real","article":"Diogenous - this is playing out much like Afghanistan. The US Military is getting the job done with minimum civilian damage. It's going very well.\r\n\r\nYou had the same lame arguments when we were going into Afghanistan. Now, more than a year later, that country has made substantial progress. Hamid Karzai is an excellent leader. What a change from the Taliban. Yes, there are still those warlords and those poppies to be dealt with, but there is steady and major progress in Afghanistan. I suppose you are 'in-denial' on that subject as well.\r\n\r\nIt's time for left-wing anti war protesters to fold up their tents and go home. Their hollow arguments (no war for oil, etc.) never did ring true. They sound even sillier now that Iraq is being liberated.","author":"Bush Admirer","parent_id":38662,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-23 15:45:36","modified":"2003-03-23 15:45:36","fileurl":""},{"id":38928,"heading":"Great leader, "Bush Admirer"","article":"I don't think anyone would claim that Karzai had control over anything but the Kabul area. I mean, I guess you could say he's a great leader for a city...that's cool, that's cool. He's a regular Willie Brown. Good luck to him and his fantasy world (while he is protected by the US military from getting killed by his subjects)...hahahha.","author":"Mike","parent_id":38662,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-23 16:14:56","modified":"2003-03-23 16:14:56","fileurl":""},{"id":38929,"heading":"Mike","article":"So Mike, if I understand your point you think Afghanistan was better off under the Taliban, and that Karzai isn't making any difference.\r\n\r\nYou must be in denial along with Diogenes.","author":"Bush Admirer","parent_id":38662,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-23 16:19:42","modified":"2003-03-23 16:19:42","fileurl":""},{"id":38934,"heading":"Ms.","article":"Denial?\r\n\r\nIt's time for this country to turn off their TV sets and use their brains.\r\n\r\nWe are not in Afghanistan for justice or to free the women supressed by the Taliban. We are not in Iraq to eliminate a terrorist threat. It is George Dub-ya's agenda of distraction that has our troops placed in this region. It is because Bush can not risk anyone scratching below the thin veneer that we are destined to do his evil bidding. To fight the real battle our troops would need to be engaged in Saudi Arabia however this route leads to his bank account. \r\n\r\nDo people not remember that just prior to Afghanistan being washed in blood, the plans of Bush's oil buddies to build a U.S. Corporate oil pipline were rejected by the Afghan Taliban. The moslem extremists weren't so bad when their country was being sized up for exploitation.\r\n\r\nPeople need to think. It is not too difficult to put the peices together, but it begins with turning off CNN. \r\n\r\nSaudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran and Palestine are all connected. It is time for this to be recognized and it is time for the Bush factor to be exposed and dealt with.\r\n\r\nBlind allegiance to this administration must come to an end. It is for the future of this planet and it's people that this is so imperitive. \r\n","author":"G. Loop","parent_id":38662,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-23 16:33:32","modified":"2003-03-23 16:33:32","fileurl":""},{"id":38940,"heading":"--> G. Loop","article":"I love it when you lefties try to package up and sell that kind of horse manure. \r\n\r\nIt makes you 'self-discrediting' \r\n\r\nThanks for falling on your own sword.","author":"Bush Admirer","parent_id":38662,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-23 16:52:00","modified":"2003-03-23 16:52:00","fileurl":""},{"id":38950,"heading":"oneangrybroad","article":"You might be right, protesting may not change anything. But at least the voices of dissent are heard. We are the only country where it is claimed that most of our population supports this war. The poll says 65%, although not one person I know was asked. In England, 2 million protestors turned out in Feb.; Jakarta, Islamabad, Cairo etc. are very vocal and Saudi Arabia is threatening to kill Americans and Brits. Brazil thinks Bush is a lunatic (to a man\/woman). The rest of the world is against this inane shit...or does that not matter to bullies like you. I do not know about you and where you live, but in my neighborhood, a "tagger" can be labelled a terrorist and denied all civil rights in jail, including making a phone call.\r\n\r\nIf there were chemical weapons, idiot, why would we bomb them, unleashing them on everyone? Why haven't they been found? Why is the US and Britian talking about how best to run Iraq after the war and are jealously guarding what they will take as spoils of war? Is this "liberation" for the people? Or is that not important? Maybe you think we know how to rule them better than they do? I am assuming you are white, because you do sound like what the third world nationa are referring to as "devil" Americans.\r\n\r\n","author":"wanda joyce","parent_id":38662,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-23 17:31:43","modified":"2003-03-23 17:31:43","fileurl":""},{"id":38952,"heading":"Wanda","article":"You can get a breakdown on how Americans view the war by visiting this site:\r\nhttp:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/specialReports\/pollSummaries\/sr030224.asp\r\n\r\nBush approval ratings are now at 67%\r\nhttp:\/\/www.pollingreport.com\/BushJob.htm\r\n\r\nGW Bush is really looking like a great President at this juncture. What a huge uplift from his mediocre predecessor.\r\n\r\nAnd thanks to the anti-war left leaning liberal crowd for completely discrediting themselves in the eyes of the American public. Innacurate and non-starter slogans like 'No War for Oil' have really helped out in that regard. Thank you so much for that.","author":"Bush Admirer","parent_id":38662,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-23 17:44:11","modified":"2003-03-23 17:44:11","fileurl":""},{"id":39009,"heading":"I agree with Bush Admirer","article":""GW Bush is really looking like a great President at this juncture. What a huge uplift from his mediocre predecessor"\r\n\r\nAbsolutely right. He has shown real leadership and courage in doing what needed to be done.","author":"Bernard","parent_id":38662,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-23 20:03:07","modified":"2003-03-23 20:03:07","fileurl":""},{"id":39057,"heading":"Yeah, He is looking almost as great as Hitler.","article":"With the lies and contortions this administration has gone through one would think the White House Communications is Run By Joseph Goebbles.\r\n\r\nOf Course that makes sense because the policies of conquer and plunder are no different than the Third Reich.","author":"Sorry I supported Him","parent_id":38662,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-23 23:01:46","modified":"2003-03-23 23:01:46","fileurl":""},{"id":39059,"heading":"Just answer the question","article":"The anti war people are mad that we are at war, but for months I heard many people ask many protesters how they would have gotten Saddam out of Iraq. Every single time they attacked the president. Either his charater or intelligence. Please, other than waiting, how would you have settled the problem. He had 12 years to come correct but never did. In the mean time his countrymen were starving and dying. \r\n\r\nIn addition can you explain how the American Devils can liberate cities only to be met with people dancing in the streets? ","author":"Fred","parent_id":38662,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-23 23:02:58","modified":"2003-03-23 23:02:58","fileurl":""},{"id":39069,"heading":"Feet-shooters","article":"What true anti-war believer would dilute his message with more divisive themes promoted in signs calling for the dismantling of Israel, the impeachment of the president and the overthrow of capitalism?\n\nYou people are simply harnessing the peace effort, hijacking the efforts of the truly peaceful for your own anti-Bush ends. If it weren't happening before my eyes, I'd say it was a right-wing conspiracy to taint the anti-war movement before the eyes of the public.\n\nBut it's a sad reality. An increasing number of the signs I see have nothing to do with war. Funded by communists, the leaders of anti-war groups like ANSWER are disenfranchising everyone who opposes the war but who doesn't buy in to the socialist agrenda.\n\nThanks to such irrelevant extremism, the anti-war movement has splintered, and a new Gallup poll says that 70% of the public supports Bush.\n\nGet a clue: if you want to convince people, stick to your message. Bush is not Hitler and nobody in Washington is Nazi. ","author":"John Gilbert","parent_id":38662,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-23 23:48:26","modified":"2003-03-23 23:48:26","fileurl":""},{"id":39074,"heading":"Thank you Fred","article":"Thank you Fred. You've hit a home run with that post.\r\n\r\nThese weenies acknowledge that there is a problem but they have no solution.\r\n\r\nThey simply advocate backing off and leaving Saddam in place. That clearly makes them Saddam Supporters.\r\n\r\nIf you're a Saddam Supporter, then you're also a 'Mass Murderer Supporter." These anti-war street rabble protesters are exactly that.","author":"Bush Admirer","parent_id":38662,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-23 23:54:24","modified":"2003-03-23 23:54:24","fileurl":""},{"id":39075,"heading":"feet shooters","article":"thank you. I do not agree with the anti war protesters but they are all over the map with their thoughts. They, and the pro war forces, can not stay on task. The protesters are not anti american, the pro war people are not nazis.","author":"fred","parent_id":38662,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-23 23:54:36","modified":"2003-03-23 23:54:36","fileurl":""}]}