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Anti-Gulf War D.C. Protests (1991)
Sat Jan 26, 1991
On this day in 1991, between 75,000 - 250,000 placard-wielding students, veterans, farmers, and feminists marched past the White House in protest of the Gulf War initiated by President George Bush. The march stretched over a mile long, sweeping down Pennsylvania Avenue.
Chants included “Hey, Hey, Uncle Sam, we remember Vietnam” and “No blood for oil!”. Representative Rangel (D-NY) was the only member of Congress among the speakers there, saying “We have no right to have a Clint Eastwood foreign policy”.
- Date: 1991-01-26
- Learn More: www.baltimoresun.com, libcom.org.
- Tags: #Protests.
- Source: www.apeoplescalendar.org
75–250K people who have no respect for their own time. The only countries of note that opposed the Gulf War were Libya and Iraq itself. I get “war bad” but why would you waste your effort showing up to protest a war that was sanctioned by every member of the Security Council and enjoyed almost universal support in the UN itself? If an American-led coalition intervention in the Middle East is more popular among countries that hate the United States than among members of Congress, it might be time to reconsider whether or not you’re pissing into the wind.
Not only 75-250k manifested against this war that caused more that a 200.000 deaths. From the libcom link:
So what? That’s irrelevant.
Yeah fuck the million and a half people that died, they definitely don’t deserve a couple hours of people’s time.
Discugusting and vile.
Not excusing anyone here, but I’m curious where you got the 1.5million dead from?
Wikipedia seems to suggest that combined total losses from the (edit) first Gulf war and the uprising following to be about 500,000 casualties, from all sides, including civilians and combatants.
And to put into perspective, Saddamn killed/massacred/genocided between ~155,000 and ~480,000, many of whom were killed by the use of chemical weapons during this period. Entire villages of Kurds were genocided.
In what way is any figure, real or fake (like 1.5 million), relevant to the thesis of my comment?