Pacifists Protest Possible War Against Iran

[Purveyor]

By Agence France-Presse
Saturday, February 4, 2012 21:42 EST

Hundreds of protesters demonstrated Saturday in New York and pacifist groups took to the streets in dozens of other US and Canadian cities in a “Day of Mass Action” against a possible war with Iran.

About 500 protesters gathered in Manhattan’s Times Square and marched to the headquarters of the US mission to the United Nations and to the Israeli consulate.

“No war, no sanctions, no intervention, no assassinations,” read a banner leading the march.

The demonstrations came as Europe and the United States slapped tough new sanctions on Iran, and Israel this week launched new threats of military intervention if the Islamic republic fails to rein in its suspected nuclear development program.

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[T S Justly]

1. Here's a non pacifist who supports them. K&R (nt)

[Bucky]

5. Here's another. We won the Cold War by not fighting.

If we corral Iran and just keep pumping materialistic American culture into the region, they'll get in line eventually.

[liberalmike27]

2. As Long as Americans are Conned

Into joining up to go fight "for our country," (corporations really) and they've got a ready supply of brainwashed people to do it, we're going to have wars.

The only real way to strangle it, is to try to convince soldiers to not go back, to not join. But the media spends considerable time to brainwash people into the military, painting it as a good thing. I wish I could be more proud of our country, I mean about more than some guy pushing a button and killing a wedding party in some forsaken foreign land. But I find less and less to be excited about, though I know we do actually do good things, rather than just waging wars for corporate gain.

It's like everything else--when we stop participating in the economy, maybe we can make some headway. As long as everyone upgrades to the next new thing each time it comes out, as long as we buy the Apple products produced in sweat-shops, they'll keep making them there. Our spending is about the only power we have, or "not" spending.

[BeFree]

3. Sounds like a Job for Occupy

Not only should we work to curtail war, we should work to cut the defense spending.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

4. "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent." Isaac Asimov