Washington Post: Iraq War Opponents Stage Protest Near Fort Bragg

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(excellent coverage in WP...big two page spread with photos on page A13 in the paper copy, which is the middle when you unfold the paper...followed by ANOTHER two page spread of the 70 Virginia troops killed in Iraq/Afganistan...and on the FRONT PAGE...a huge very sad photo and article, showing a soldiers parents/family mourning at Arlington National Cemetary clutching the American Flag)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50251-2005Mar19.html


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FAYETTEVILLE, N.C., March 19 -- Here at the heart of one of the nation's most deeply rooted military communities, nearly 3,000 peace activists, war veterans and their family members gathered Saturday to call for an end to the Iraq conflict on the second anniversary of the day it began

Among the dozens of speakers who declared their opposition to the war, the loudest applause and only standing ovation were for Michael Hoffman, who served as a Marine artilleryman during the invasion of Iraq and who last July founded a group called Iraq Veterans Against the War.

"Two years ago today, many of us standing on this stage were ready to wage destruction on Iraq," said Hoffman, 25, wearing the top of his desert camouflage uniform and a pin that said: "Bush lied." "We know that the only solution to the problem that we have created is to end the occupation now," he said.

"There is nothing more important today than building links and giving aid and comfort to the members of the armed forces who are turning against the war in greater numbers," said Thomas Barton, a union organizer from New York and the editor of GI Special, an antiwar e-mail bulletin. "The rebellion in the armed forces of the United States will stop the war," he said.

[Cha]

1. This is huge considering this is

what the fascists want stifled!

[SaveAmerica]

2. It is excellent coverage, so glad to see it in the Washington Post

but I have a problem with the caption under the picture. It says

A pro-military demonstrator blocks the camera of an antiwar protester at a rally in Fayetteville, N.C., a few miles from Fort Bragg. (Photos Logan Mock-bunting -- Getty Images)

http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/images/I50403-2005Mar19

Maybe they didn't know what to call the few dozen across the street, but it makes it seem like the anti-war demonstrators are anti-military, which is farthest from the truth. The look on the lady's face in the picture is so hateful.

[ngGale]

7. The opposition was from the...

Free Republic, bunch of paid off freepers. Read about it in TO - Will has some good coverage.

[The Kicker]

3. Kick

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[CC]

4. kick

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[SoCalDem]

5. Somehow, I doubt that the loved ones really notice what the bearers

of bad news are wearing..They could be wearing a bikini and flipflops, and the weight of the news that a son/husband/daughter/wife is dead, would not change..:(

[KeepItReal]

6. "Bush Lied" - nuff said

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