hear hear!!!
In my Melbourne (oz), similar sized march. We have emailed our PM, but we
need to find a way to inundate hime with genuine, real voting people signed
messages that we dont want to got without UN sanction.

Otherwise Terry Jones will get us one, and it may just be because I have a
tic in one eye.....

jp
----- Original Message -----
From: "Greg Chaplin" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 11:04 AM
Subject: [HP3000-L] The peace marches


> >>> Denys Beauchemin <[log in to unmask]> 17/02/2003 09:37:59 am >>>
> <snip>
> ... Actually one of the reasons the Socialists support Iraq (witness
> the large leftist pro-Saddam demonstrations this weekend,) ...
> <snip>
>
> What a blinkered, red-necked, miopic view!!
>
> The HUGE peace-marches throughout the world were NOT leftist
> pro-Saddam.
> 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;
> the common ground was to show that they did not want a pre-emptive
> strike
> against Iraq, they wanted peace.
>
> The march in my home city, Melbourne, was the largest since the
> Vietnam
> War. Over 100,000 people marched against war, out of a population of
> something like 3 or 4 million. The people I saw & spoke to were not all
> leftists,
> or pro-Saddam. They were a cross-section of Melbourne citizens.
>
> The Australian leaders don't get it. The British leaders don't get it.
> The US
> leaders don't get it. And so many of the US people don't get it.
>
> WE DON'T WANT A WAR. Give peace a chance.
>
> Invading Iraq will not solve the problem of Islamic terrorists - it
> will just
> give them fuel for their hate and create an endlessly escalating  cycle
> of
> retaliation.
>
> Understand their view. Acknowledge the differences. Stop meddling in
> the
> internal affairs of other countries. And maybe then we can have peace.
>
> Greg.
>
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