Re: 150,000 Americans March Against Iraq War

"Faris Jawad" <ana_faris_bila_jawad@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> 150,000 Americans March Against Iraq War
>
> WASHINGTON, September 25, 2005 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) - Tens of
> thousands of American demonstrators took to the streets in several major
> cities on Saturday, September 24, protesting the US-led invasion of Iraq
> and demanding the withdrawal of American troops.
>
> "We need a people's movement to end this war," Cindy Sheehan, an anti-war
> mom whose son was killed in fighting in Iraq, told more than 100,000
> protestors, who stretched for several blocks around the White House,
> Agence France Presse (AFP) reported.
>
> Camping out in Crawford, Texas, during much of August while US President
> George W. Bush was vacationing in his ranch, Sheehan's rallies drew crowds
> that sometimes numbered in the hundreds as she demanded a meeting with
> Bush.
>
> "Bring the troops home now," chanted the protestors, flying a sea of signs
> and banners rebuking the Bush administration.
>
> Washington rally drew several prominent figures in including Rev. Jesse
> Jackson and actor Martin Sheen.
>
> More than 15,000 protesters gathered in Los Angeles and thousands others
> marched in San Francisco and Seattle, demanding an end to military action
> in Iraq nearly 30 months after the invasion-turned-occupation.
>
> Also Saturday, tens of thousands of people marched through London to
> demand the withdrawal of British troops from Iraq and protest the recent
> anti-terror measures in the country.
>
> War Criminals
>
> Featured speakers in Washington rally included outspoken British MP George
> Galloway, who received the biggest crowd response.
>
> "There is an absolute need for your country and my country to stand
> shoulder to shoulder against the war criminals Tony Blair and George W.
> Bush," he said.
>
> Galloway stressed that Bush and Blair had failed to justify the Iraq
> invasion.
>
> "This is not a clash of civilizations, not a war between people of the
> West and East, not a war between Christianity and Islam; George Bush does
> not represent any civilization," he said to cheers from the crowd.
>
> Galloway drew international attention for a fiery condemnation of the US
> policy he made to the Senate earlier this year.
>
> Anti-War Soldiers
>
> Also among the anti-war demonstrators in Washington were some 40 US
> soldiers who recently returned from Iraq.
>
> "This is all new to me. I've never participated in something like this,"
> said John McNamara, 25, who served six months as an army truck driver in
> Iraq.
>
> The anti-war soldiers held up signs saying "Bring Them Home Now!" and
> wearing their desert camouflage uniforms.
>
> "I took part in some destruction in the Middle East and I feel bad about
> that," said McNamara, who flew from Los Angeles for the event.
>
> "Being here won't make up for it but it might make me feel a little better
> about it."
>
> Turning Against
>
> On Washington's National Mall, the protestors set up a faux military
> cemetery of hundreds of small, white crosses in neat lines, Reuters said.
>
> And in Los Angeles, 60 mock coffins draped in American flags were laid out
> in rows on a downtown street.
>
> "This is what we are losing every day," said Vickie Castro, of Riverside,
> California, standing in front of the coffins with a picture of her son,
> Cpl. Jonathan Castro, who was killed in action in Mosul, Iraq, in 2004.
>
> Anti-war protestors were buoyed by recent opinion polls that show a
> growing majority disapprove of Bush's handling of the Iraq war.
>
> A Gallup poll this week showed 55 percent favor speeding up plans to
> withdraw troops from Iraq.
>
> A New York Times/CBS poll one week ago said support for the Iraq war has
> fallen to 44 percent, the lowest ever over the past two years.
>
> "I believe momentum is building, I can see it with my eyes. But I also
> read the polls," said Sheehan.
>
> "You know what I would have said? 'What noble cause did my son die for?'"
> asked the anti-war mom, wearing a yellow T-shirt emblazoned with a peace
> symbol.
>
> http://islamonline.net/English/News/2005-09/25/article02.shtml

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