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 Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 2:50 pm Post subject: Hendreds Gather in SF to Protest War |
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| Quote: | "More than 500 people gathered Sunday evening at San Francisco's Unitarian Universalist Church for a peace vigil followed by a march, the first of numerous events this week to commemorate the fifth anniversary Wednesday of the war in Iraq.
Speakers - including state Sen. Carole Migden and former San Francisco Supervisor and current Green Party [Independent, with R. Nader] vice presidential candidate Matt Gonzalez - condemned the offensive that began the night of March 19, 2003, with air raids over Baghdad designed to inspire "shock and awe" (in the words of President Bush) in the Iraqi people and the government of Saddam Hussein.
They blasted the war on moral grounds as well as for its human toll - 4,000 U.S. soldiers and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis dead - and financial cost - $12 billion a month, according to a recent study by Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, who estimates the tab could reach $3 trillion." |
-- Here's the link to the rest of this story, from the San Francisco Chronicle;
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/03/17/BA6IVL4DR.DTL&feed=rss.bayarea
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