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Online protest against Bush, Blair
by watcher Monday, Mar. 31, 2003 at 1:37 AM

A cyber protest against the White House and 10 Downing continues. Check out the tools available and lend a hand.

The electrohippies Iraq action continues. Check their website for details and protest tools you can use.

Also check the WarTools site at http://www.kbiz.ca/wartools/ for another tool you can use in this and future online protests.

WarTools was recently launched and received over 2 million hits the first day. The following day brought a complaint from Free Republic (one of many sites on the WarTools "blacklist") that their server had received almost 12,000 search requests, or 25% of all searches that day.

See also http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=306333&group=webcast

www.fraw.org.uk/ehippies/iraq/update.html

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by . Monday, Mar. 31, 2003 at 1:51 AM

Jesus...do you realize what you are doing? You are silencing any and all opposition with any means. Doesn't that seem really really backward? Oh, I forgot, the liberal left and the conservative right are the same crowd now. They just wear different colored condoms when they fuck us up the ass.

I think maybe I'll write a program will slams indymedia.org with unwanted traffic to slow them down...obviously that's an OK tactic with this crowd, right?

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online protest against Bush...
by Neil Cavuto Monday, Mar. 31, 2003 at 7:00 PM

re: online protestors against President Bush. Let me tell you what I see. I see coalition forces within 50 miles of Baghdad. I see them controlling a country 4 times the size of California in 11 days. I see angry Iraqi civilians turning on their own duplicitous soldiers. I see children getting candy and adults getting food and water. I see the image of U. S. POW's not scaring our soldiers but emboldening them. I see clarity over sandstorms and truth over treachery. I see countries that mocked us worrying their way into life in Iraq after us. I see second-guessing, doubts, and hatred from wannabe's who couldn't be more clueless and senseless or more hapless. I see people without guts critisizing those who are giving their guts. I see people who have never been in battle pontificating on what we should do in battle. I see more countries jumping on our bandwagon and others desparate to be on any bandwagon. I see leaders of countries still condemning us but investors in those countries still investing in us. I see prisoners and soldiers alike who will come home and a nation that will greet them with open arms and sincere hugs. I see a hard battle but a great victory. I see past the sum of our fears to the whole of our greatness. and finally, I see a great nation defined by the good things it does and not the bad things others say.

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what Robin Cook sees
by a brit Thursday, Apr. 03, 2003 at 10:22 PM

Neil you should see what Robin Cook sees. He doesn't see the same as you at all. But he was Blair's foreign secretary for many years, and yet he has come out totally and utterly against this mass slaughter. Check out his article in the UK's Sunday Mirror. Here's the start of it below. You'll have to search for the rest on the site, sorry, lost the exact link. Please read the foreign press, you sound like one of the few pro-war people on this site who sincerely wants to say something and not just harass people, but I'm afraid you're not getting the whole story from the US media.

"This was meant to be a quick, easy war. Shortly before I resigned a Cabinet colleague told me not to worry about the political fall-out. The war would be finished long before polling day for the May local elections.
I just hope those who expected a quick victory are proved right. I have already had my fill of this bloody and unnecessary war. I want our troops home and I want them home before more of them are killed.
It is OK for Bush to say the war will go on for as long as it takes. He is sitting pretty in the comfort of Camp David protected by scores of security men to keep him safe.
It is easy to show you are resolute when you are not one of the poor guys stuck in a sandstorm peering around for snipers.
We were told the Iraqi army would be so joyful to be attacked that it would not fight. A close colleague of US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld predicted the march to Baghdad would be "a cakewalk".
We were told Saddam's troops would surrender. A few days before the war Vice-President Dick Cheney predicted that the Republican Guard would lay down their weapons.
We were told that the local population would welcome their invaders as liberators. Paul Wolfowitz, No.2 at the Pentagon, promised that our tanks would be greeted "with an explosion of joy
and relief".
Personally I would like to volunteer Rumsfeld, Cheney and Wolfowitz to be "embedded"
alongside the journalists with the forward units..."

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