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I say with a democrat admin in the same situation, the turn outs would have been smaller at home here in America.

Mark me in the camp that it was "Anti-Bush", globally speaking too.

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« Reply #1 on: February 17, 2003, 08:10:52 AM »
a little bit of of all three.

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« Reply #2 on: February 17, 2003, 08:12:12 AM »
hehe, corrected just as you posted.

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« Reply #3 on: February 17, 2003, 08:16:32 AM »
Oh absolutely Anti-Bush, they hate him like nothing else. Nothing unnerves the gutless Euro chattering inteligensia than a plain spoken, down to earth american leader with a strong sense of purpose and a will to carry it out. That man is esentially foreign to them and they hate him. Moreover they look down upon him as lacking in intelligence and kindness, which of course merely reflects their trumped up arrogant sense of intellecual superiority and moral rationality - however these are only masks for their truer, deeper, more profound, and ultimately fundemental resentment rising from a sense of impotence to and dependence on american power.

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« Reply #4 on: February 17, 2003, 08:29:07 AM »
Or was it pro Iraqi weaponized anthrax ?

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Poll: Was the weekend protests "Anti-War"..."Anti-Bush"...or "Anti-American
« Reply #5 on: February 17, 2003, 08:44:19 AM »
Another rant, Grunherz? Based around roadkill and self-comforting fallacies, as per usual.

You'll find that the people on the British demos came from all walks of life, and of all political persuasions. War veterans, working class, middle class, bringing along their families, people who'd never protested against anything before. You tell me, Grunherz, what brings all these people together? These are people who go from day to day, paying for the house and car and getting on with their lives - they don't have an "arrogant sense of intellecual superiority and moral rationality". That makes me chuckle, you hysterical buffoon.
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« Reply #6 on: February 17, 2003, 08:47:00 AM »
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You tell me, Grunherz, what brings all these people together?


I'm guessing "Global economy threatened with the threat of a Gulf War 2" is what bonds them.  At the end of all trails is the mighty Dollar (Euro in your case).

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Re: Poll: Was the weekend protests "Anti-War"..."Anti-Bush"...or "Anti-Amer
« Reply #7 on: February 17, 2003, 10:25:11 AM »
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Originally posted by Ripsnort
I say with a democrat admin in the same situation, the turn outs would have been smaller at home here in America.

Mark me in the camp that it was "Anti-Bush", globally speaking too.



Ahoi Rips,

can only speak of Berlin demonstration.Standing at side of the march for about an hour i sah many thousand posters, all was anti bush politic not Anti -America.

Read in the newspaper though, that NPD ( National Democratische Partei Deutschlands = Neo Nazies, who deny Holocaust, and hate America for bein in the Anti-Hitler Coalition) wanted their people to join the march but nobody of them showed up. Better for them as they would have been beated up pretty good :D

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« Reply #8 on: February 17, 2003, 10:27:09 AM »
So Blitz, why did they call it an "Anti-war" protest? It wasn't...it was "Anti-administration protest". Why not just call it what it was?

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« Reply #9 on: February 17, 2003, 10:30:17 AM »
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I'm guessing "Global economy threatened with the threat of a Gulf War 2" is what bonds them.  At the end of all trails is the mighty Dollar (Euro in your case).



Ahoi Rips,

could have been very easy for us to join the party and get a big piece of the cake.

Instead w'll probably see a lot of economical problems( and german economy is very weak for quite some time now) because bush administration is mad on us. That's the truth.

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« Reply #10 on: February 17, 2003, 10:34:04 AM »
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So Blitz, why did they call it an "Anti-war" protest? It wasn't...it was "Anti-administration protest". Why not just call it what it was?



Ahoi rips,

because europe thinking is very differend than America's after two horrible World Wars.

We can't stand that arrogant attitude and behaviour bush administration is showin for about a year when it comes to Iraq war.


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« Reply #11 on: February 17, 2003, 10:35:21 AM »
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« Reply #12 on: February 17, 2003, 10:45:27 AM »
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Ahoi Rips,

could have been very easy for us to join the party and get a big part of the cake.

Instead w'll probably see a lot of economical problems because bush administration is mad on us. That's the truth.

Regards Blitz


Blitz, global economies are already reeling since 9/11...but at least you'll have an "identifiable" enemy to blame it on from here on out (Bush).

I'm betting your perspective would be different if there were a Socialist democrat doing the same thing.

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« Reply #13 on: February 17, 2003, 10:48:16 AM »
Protesters in USA - anti-Bush

Protesters elsewhere - anti-USA.

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« Reply #14 on: February 17, 2003, 10:52:27 AM »
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Blitz, global economies are already reeling since 9/11...but at least you'll have an "identifiable" enemy to blame it on from here on out (Bush).

I'm betting your perspective would be different if there were a Socialist democrat doing the same thing.


Nobody is blaming bush for our economy weakness,
its mostly because Germany has horrible costs on east Germany for 10 years now after the communists ruined it all there.


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