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Iraq Veterans Win Meeting with Obama Liason

Posted: 8/27/2008 at 10:32 PM

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The thousands of protesters, led by Iraq veterans, who marched today on the Democratic National Convention have won a major victory: A meeting with a liason from the Obama campaign. Flanked by hundreds of riot police in the "First Amendment Zone" outside the Pepsi Center in Denver, Colorado, the protesters have remained peaceful. The veterans say they want to read a letter addressed to Barack Obama.

 

The march, which was conducted without a permit, came from a Rage Against the Machine concert at the Denver Coliseum and marched to the Pepsi Center. Estimates of the group's size range from 3,000 to 12,000.

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  • Dar wrote on Aug 28, 2008 at 7:34 PM
    Do you support providing support monies/medications/doctors/etc. for persons with Disabilities like myself?
  • Uncle B wrote on Oct 5, 2008 at 11:50 AM
    My rage against the machine:If the U.S. had chosen to be a moral people, and leaving Iraqi oil alone, and following Al Gore, decided to develop the South Western deserts, with the technology of the times - solar/thermal-molten sodium - electricity installations, for the same amount of money as that war cost, ($650 Billion), today, we would be tapping into the largest, renewable, sustainable, energy source the world has ever known. It would have paid every energy bill in the U.S.A. for maintenance fees only - FOREVER! It would be equivalent to an oil field that can NEVER run dry! Low cost electric power, and storeable hydrogen gasoline replacement from the electricity, for all! After the millions of murders, and $650 billions of dollars, borrowed from our children’s futures and pissed away, with thousands of our own and others maimed and disfigured for life, millions of families utterly destroyed, ours and theirs, we are no closer to Iraqi oil production than the Iraqis are! The next time you hear a blithering idiot spoiled brat, drunken, drug addicted, sociopath, rich Arabic saber dancing daddie’s boy oilman, stand at a microphone and threaten YOUR safety with someone ELSE’S weapons, remember what you lost America, remember, and weep! (also see http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=a-solar-grand-plan)