As you could expect, Saddam is making a big point about how the world all support him over the western imperialist aggressors, or some junk like that, based on the anti-war protests of last weekend. Joe Conason has a good report about it at Salon: http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2003/02/20/unmovic/index.html. Final point he makes - what we all ought to do is protest at Iraqi embassies next weekend. Failing that, at least send a message to Iraq's UN embassy at missionofiraq@nyc.rr.com and tell them they'd better get their act together. Will it make Saddam act any differently? Well, how much attention do you think President Bush was paying you when you marched around last weekend? If you did the second, you owe it to everyone involved to do the first.
posted by Mr. Ripzaw at 3:06 PM
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I spent yesterday tromping around downtown Philadelphia shouting inane anti-war slogans. I had made a no inane slogan pledge before I set out, but when they adapted Ludacris' "Get Out the Way" into an anti-war chant ("Move, Bush, Get out the way"...), I just couldn't resist. "Duct tape this" was another good one, although the organizers sort of insisted on every chant being specifically anti-Bush, so it quickly migrated to "Duct tape Bush (?)" through the efforts of their 10000 watt speaker truck of oblivion. There was one part where I got stuck between the contingents from the Western Pennsylvania Anti-Capitalist League and the Delwyre Communist-Anarchist Alliance. That was a little scary. I think you had to have a bolt through some part of your body to get into the second one. Anyway, it was a good experience, I was glad I went. Most of the speakers were fairly intelligent, even if they all were a little off the deep end for their respective groups. You could tell which of the speakers were from International ANSWER - they were the ones that swore a lot, were very shrill, and had nothing to do with Iraq ("F*CK THE MILITARY! WHAT THE F*CK IS THE F*CKING MILITARY DOING IN OUR F*CKING SCHOOLS! GET THOSE F*CKERS THE F*CK OUT!", and so forth.)
So, no immense point to make here. Just an observation from a guy who was there.
posted by Mr. Ripzaw at 11:57 PM
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