UK Prepares to Protest Bush Visit in June

UK Prepares to Protest Bush Visit in June
Submitted by davidswanson on Wed, 2008-05-21 17:51.

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1) GEORGE BUSH HERE IN JUNE: BE READY

Will they never learn? War criminals are not wanted here.
George Bush will visit Britain Between June 9 and 16. The
last time he was here, in November 2003, it provoked one of
the biggest mid-week demonstrations in British history, with
up to 300,000 on London's streets. Since then his war of
terror has led to the loss of over a million lives and
spread from Iraq and Afghanistan to Pakistan, Somalia and
Kenya, with ever intensifying threats suggesting Iran is
next.

When Condoleezza Rice visited in March 2006, it turned into
a public relations disaster, with large demonstrations in
Liverpool, Blackburn and everywhere else she went. Only last
week the fanatical warmonger John Bolton, formerly Bush's
ambassador to the United Nations and vociferous advocate of
an immediate attack on Iran, cancelled a planned visit to
Bristol for fear of the anti-war demonstration that was
planned to meet him. (See http://tinyurl.com/4uvq2r)

We're sure that everyone who has opposed George Bush's war
policies and the slavish support he has received from the
British government will want to make their voice heard when
this warmonger-in-chief visits the UK. Stop the War will of
course aim to organise the largest possible protest against
George Bush's visit. More details to follow shortly.

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2) MORE UNPOPULAR THAN TONY BLAIR

A visit from George Bush -- the most despised politician in
the world, not least in his own country -- is surely the
last thing Gordon Brown needs. Brown has already achieved
the seeming impossible. He's more unpopular as prime
minister than was his predecessor Tony Blair, who had some
of the lowest poll ratings in British history. One reason is
Brown's broken promise to withdraw troops from Iraq. He's
not alone in responsibility for this. MPs in Parliament have
passively accepted Brown's current policy of keeping British
troops in Iraq for as long as George Bush insists they stay.

Stop the War is launching a campaign urging all MPs to call
for the troop withdrawal programme to be restarted, thereby
reflecting the views of the vast majority of people in
Britain, who oppose the British government's support for
George Bush's war in Iraq. We are asking our supporters and
local Stop the War groups to use every available means to
get this message across, by writing letters, collecting
petition signatures, lobbying MPs at their weekly surgeries,
writing to the local newspapers etc. A model letter can be
downloaded here: http://tinyurl.com/599tem

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3) AMERICA BRINGS HELL TO SOMALIA

Somalia is in the grip of one of the worst humanitarian
crises in the world, and it is all happening under the
direction of George W. Bush. His so-called war on terror is
in fact a war of terror practised against millions of people
all over the world and once again the mainstream media is
allowing him to peddle the same justifications he used for
illegal attacks on Iraq and Afghanistan, to bring horrific
levels of death and destruction to the Somali people. The
media monitoring website Media Lens has an excellent summary
of the realities underlying Bush's war of terror on Somalia
and the media's failure to report it. See
http://tinyurl.com/6z8saz

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4) AFGHANISTAN: ANOTHER SOLDIER DIES FOR NOTHING

more...

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/33565

administration was planning to "have Bush gone most of the year" (= 2008). I guess the thought was Bush is so radioactive, they need to have him gone during the election.

Too bad he's not welcome anywhere else.

at the Gleneagles G8 meeting, which was the actual last time Bush was in Britain, I think.



That was when George Bush injured a policeman, due to being an uncoordinated idiot:

They don't have to worry about getting attacked by a Gathering of Eagles or other pro-war POSs.

June 11

That dipshit is going to travel the entire world looking for some validation/adulation and it's just not going to happen.

:shrug:

The one thing that left could hope for is that Boris makes a bumbling fool of himself with the President (which is not that unlikely, as viewers of Have I Got News For You will be aware).