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Re: Bush toppled
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Fri, 21 Nov 2003 15:09:32 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal wrote:
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur wrote:
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Last night in London 100,000 plus protestetsers toppled Bush Jr:
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I’m sure the enemies of Democracy will be gratified by the excessive news
coverage and exaggerated counts of protesters. Useful idiots, really.
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That statement implies that Bush is a friend of democracy; tell that to those
who live under the despots Bush supports!
Anyhow, us Brits don’t fall for the lie that to protest is somehow
“unpatriotic”.
Also note that: “100,000” is the lower estimate on the crowd numbers; from the
BBC:Organisers claim
200,000 joined the demonstration, although police put the numbers closer to
100,000.
What do you understand the actual figure to be?
I’d never have dreamt you were a Guardian reader!
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One in particular (from Frederick Forsyth):
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Frederick Forsyth = right-wing novelist. Did you read the letter from the other
novelist on the list:
You can laugh at the old Stalinists who lead the protest march against you and
ignore the anti-western ranting of a few journalists here whose pathology is one
of guilt and self-hatred. But please do be aware of the distaste felt towards
what you have done by reasonable, pro-American Britons. I hate to think what the
allied dead of two world wars would have made of it, and of your presidency -
Sebastian Faulks
Scott A
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| (...) I'm sure the enemies of Democracy will be gratified by the excessive news coverage and exaggerated counts of protesters. Useful idiots, really. I was very entertained by some solicited letters from the Guardian addressed to Bush: (URL) One in (...) (21 years ago, 21-Nov-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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