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Thread #51729   Message #812376
Posted By: GUEST
27-Oct-02 - 08:37 AM
Thread Name: BS: Actions to promote peace
Subject: RE: BS: Actions to promote peace
Estimated 10,000 in St. Paul. I can tell you, that is a huge number for here--estimated as the largest anti-war rally since the Vietnam era. But it is being spun by the media as a "tribute to Wellstone". That way, they don't have to do their job and cover it as what it really is--a huge opposition to the current administration's policy of using the war on terrorism as an excuse to engage in unilateral military adventurism.

There were many Wellstone campaign signs present, but it wasn't a tribute to Wellstone. It was most definitely an anti-war rally with all the trimmings.

Let us not forget, over a million Iraqis have already died as a result of the Gulf War and the sanctions of the past 12 years.