I doubt very much there were any rugged individualists marching on Saturday,
they would not want to show any support for Saddam.  If there were any, they
were probably looking for autographs from celebrities.

BTW, I watched some coverage of these pro-Saddam marches this weekend and
the reason I refer to these marches as being pro-Saddam is that I did not
see a single sign enjoining Saddam to do the right thing.  All the signs
were anti-US, anti-Bush or anti-War.  The only pro-signs were for the failed
inspections.

Denys

-----Original Message-----
From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of
Richard Ali
Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 2:38 PM
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Subject: Re: The peace marches

> Tracy Mark Johnson wrote:

> do not find the left-wing anti-war protests against a war
on Iraq unusual...
>> They were a cross-section of communities, right and left
>> wing, old and young, singles, couples, families, blue-collar
>> workers standing next to office workers; ...
>I think the claim that the right-wing are active
participants in an anti-war march a bit of a stretch of the imagination.

Why? Don't right wing people oppose war too? Perhaps there were 10 million
"rugged individualists" marching on Saturday. Did you think of that?

>As for others, they may have been some bored
individuals dragged along by their more activist spouses.

No blanket generalisations there then. I'm never that bored that marching
for 5 hours in temperatures approaching zero would seem appealing.



Richard Ali






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