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this is long. i did it yesterday (mon.) but you may be able to use it.
Deardra Sinate is one of the coordinators for the international action center that helped organiza a massive demonstration in Times Square today, in opposition to us imperialism in iraq and the middle east.
This is alink to george seniors speach when they invaded iraq the first time. (copy right?)
http://www.wakeamerica.com/past/speeches/1990/gbush_011691.html
Published on Monday, February 19, 2001 in the Independent / UK
Iraq Basks In Worldwide Support After US Attacks
by Waiel Faleh
A week before sitting down with the U.N. chief to talk about sanctions and weapons inspections, Iraq was basking in worldwide support sparked by U.S. and British missile strikes on the outskirts of its capital.
George W bush followed in his fathers footsteps of friday by engaging in the first bombing of his presidency. There have been demonstrations every day in Bagdad since Friday's attack. Thousands of marchers - many of them students wearing their gray and blue high school uniforms - on Monday burned American , British and Israeli flags and carried banners declaring "aggression will not scare us and sanctions will not harm us."
U.S. and British missiles hit Iraq several times a month, and even when casualties are higher than they were Friday, such protests are rare. But Friday's attack was the first signal from the new U.S. administration of how it would deal with Iraq and was the first strike in several years to come so close to Baghdad and involve so many fighter planes.
Deputy Foreign Minister Nabil Najim told reporters last week that Iraq would demand from Annan "the total and immediate lifting of sanctions and the ending of the almost daily aggression on the southern and the northern parts of the country" - the last a reference to the no-fly zones.
Iraq wants the U.N. to lift crippling economic sanctions imposed since 1990.
Countries that were key supporters of the coalition that drove Iraq out of Kuwait 10 years ago, like Egypt, Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Spain and France have criticized the attacks.
Russia, which along with France has been pushing for a new international policy on Iraq and questioned the effectiveness of the sanctions, over the weekend said the bombardment was unjustified.
Russian ultranationalist politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky left Moscow Monday for Iraq on a trip intended to be a show of support.
"The United States and Britain have bombed Iraq for 10 years, humiliating it," Zhirinovsky told reporters Monday before flying out of Moscow. "Can you imagine this logic, according to which they bomb the country to make sure that not one bullet touches an American plane?"
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi told reporters in Tehran Monday that the U.S.-British air strikes were "inexplicable," the Iranian news agency IRNA reported.
"We regret the carnage of innocent Iraqis and we condemn it," Asefi was quoted as saying.
In Malaysia Monday, the main ethnic Chinese opposition party joined Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad in condemning the air strikes. Nearly 60 percent of Malaysia's 22 million people are Muslim. The Malaysian government supports an end to the sanctions.
Indonesia's foreign ministry said in a statement Monday that the attacks only increased the suffering of Iraqis reduced to poverty by the prolonged sanctions.
Iraqui Deputy Prime Minister Tareq Aziz, comfortable that world opinion is on his side, ridiculed the United States and Britain for portraying Friday's attacks as an attempt to protect U.S. and British pilots patrolling the no-fly zones.
"America defends itself in Baghdad? It enters the country ...., bombs it, then says it was defending itself?" Aziz said on Iraqi television Sunday night. "This is an unacceptable and disreputable talk by the Americans. It is also condemned by the whole world."
There has also been condemnation for fridays attack here in the united states.
Deardra sinate is one of the coordinators for the international action center that helped organiza a massive demonstration in Times Square today, in opposition to us imperialism in iraq and the middle east.
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