Moonbat Global Anti-War Protest Underwhelming
Via AP
Anti-war protesters marched in Australia, Asia, Turkey and Europe on Saturday in demonstrations that marked the third anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq with a demand that coalition troops pull out.Around 500 protesters marched through central Sydney, chanting “End the war now” and “Troops out of Iraq.” Many campaigners waved placards branding President Bush the “World’s No. 1 Terrorist” or expressing concerns that Iran could be the next country to face invasion.
“Iraq is a quagmire and has been a humanitarian disaster for the Iraqis,” said Jean Parker, a member of the Australian branch of the Stop the War Coalition, which organized the march. “There is no way forward without ending the occupation.”
Opposition to the war is still evident in Australia, which has some 1,300 troops in and around Iraq. Visiting Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was heckled by campaigners in Sydney this week, who said she had “blood on her hands.”
But Saturday’s protest was small compared to the mass demonstrations that swept across the country in the buildup to the invasion – the largest Australia had seen since joining U.S. forces in the Vietnam War.
The turnout also was lower than protesters had hoped in Britain, whose government has been the United States’ strongest supporter in the war.
Authorities shut down streets in the heart of London’s shopping and theater district for the demonstration, which organizers had predicted would attract up to 100,000 people, but police estimated the crowd was about 15,000 people.
Some protesters carried posters calling Bush a terrorist and other placards pictured Prime Minister Tony Blair, saying “Blair must go!” Britain has about 8,000 soldiers in Iraq but plans to pull out 800 by May.
All Things Conservative notices the protests were more anti-America than anti-war.
Indeed, the protests would have probably been even smaller if it were simply pacifist dreamers gathering. Without the hatred of America to fuel these moonbats, many wouldn’t have put the hash pipe down and gotten off their couch. If these folks were truly anti-war, they would be protesting the hate filled extremist terrorists that want to impose tyranny on the world under the banner of Islam. Instead, we can see their true motives, and if they were smart they would realize why they can’t gather any significant support for their cause. We all want peace, but we have to look at where the root causes are that are keeping us from getting there. If you ponder it, we are always at some kind of war. War and peace and like yin and yang, and more often the only way we can achieve peace is through war with those that destroy it. Appeasement will never get us there.
Gateway Pundit how small the turnout was across the world too. He breaks it down protest by protest. Quite pathetic, even for rabid moonbats.
USS Neverdock notices that both leaders of this movement are communists.
Right Thinking From the Left Coast finds one moonbat that doesn’t know the difference between a Mercedes symbol and a peace symbol.
Others: Blogs For Bush
Opinipundit
Michelle Malkin
Liberty Just In Case has pictures from protests in Reno.
Kender has reports from Oregon.
All Things Beautiful has a great post and roundup.
Expose The Left
Michelle Malkin has photos of one of the rallys she attended.
Junkyard Blog is putting together a video.
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Posted by Jay on March 18, 2006 4:19 pm
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Jay: “If these folks were truly anti-war, they would be protesting the hate filled extremist terrorists that want to impose tyranny on the world under the banner of Islam.”
Jay, this would require thinking on their part wouldn’t it? That alone would seem to preclude their ability to protest the hate filled estremist terrorists of any stripe.
My fiance and I noticed a tiny bunch of scraggly, aging activists standing with their signs on the outskirts of Philly yesterday. We also noticed, standing across the road from them, a man holding a sign alerting motorists to the clearance sale at Strawbridges.
We concluded that the guy holding the sale sign was (a) providing much more of a community service than the protestors, and (b) more likely to be able to explain his sign and justify why he was holding it. (Certainly, he would never have mistaken the peace and Mercedes symbols.) Advertising a sale is more logical and useful than exhorting drivers-by to “honk for peace.”
“It is a principle incorporated into the settled policy of America, that as peace is better than war, war is better than tribute.”
Letter to the Dey of Algiers, August, 1816 from James Madison
I doubt the so called peace activist understand what Madison was writing about.