Thousands join anti-war protest

[maddezmom]

Source: EveningStandard

Thousands join anti-war protest

20.09.08
Thousands of anti-war demonstrators staged a noisy protest outside the Labour Party conference on Saturday calling on Gordon Brown to end the "catastrophic" conflict in Iraq and withdraw British troops.

Students, pensioners and peace activists joined a march through Manchester to deliver another anti-war message to the Government.

Leaders of the Stop The War Coalition and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament held up a giant banner which read "troops out" at the head of the march, which organisers said was joined by at least 5,000 people.

Scores of police officers, some on horseback, were on duty as the protesters, some chanting: "Troops out" and others singing: "We all live in a terrorist regime" walked towards the conference centre.

A letter was handed in to a Labour Party official explaining that the demonstration was in protest at the Government's foreign policy which organisers said merely followed that of the US administration.

The letter read: "We urge you to deliver on your commitment to withdraw all British troops from the illegal and catastrophic occupation of Iraq. We also urge you to recognise that the occupation of Afghanistan has involved Britain in an unwinnable and devastating war in a country where the population is clearly opposed to our presence."



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[dipsydoodle]

1. The Labour party assumes quite foolishly

that by the time the next General Election is held no importance will be attached to the cost of lives during illegal occupation of Irag. They're wrong.

Also - the situation here is really no different from the USA inasmuch money spent in Iraq would better have been spent on healthcare.

[midnight]

2. The English are ahead of us on this point. Let's chime in .....

We have a long history of helping eachother out. Troops out" and others singing: "We all live in a terrorist regime" walked towards the conference centre.

[AndyTiedye]

3. The AntiWar Movement Always Gets Put on Ice During An Election Year

People are afraid of frightening the "swing voters" and causing a repeat of 1972.