200,000 march against Bush in London

[Nancy Waterman]

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/content_objectid=13645118_method=full_siteid=50143_headline=-200-000-MARCH-AGAINST-BUSH-IN-LONDON-name_page.html

A massive demonstration against George Bush drew up to 200,000 marchers on the streets of London today. Organisers of the march, ending in a rally at Trafalgar Square, said the number was a record for any weekday protest in Britain. With a huge police presence the Met reported no incidents of violence and the march passed off peacefully.

"This phenomenal response shows the depth of feeling of the British public towards this visit," said a spokesman for the Stop The War Coalition.

The march started near Euston Station and went past the House of Commons and Whitehall before finishing at Trafalgar Square. When the march passed Downing Street anti-war protesters booed and jeered at Bush and Blair inside number 10.

A huge papier mache statue of Bush was hauled down by protestors in Trafalgar Square in protest at the Iraq war.

[Scott Lee]

1. I'll bet DoodleDrawers can't wait to get back to that pig farm of his

....where he's among friends again.

[dbt]

18. Not to mention his peer group!

Everybody sing!!!

Everywhere there's lots of piggies,
Living piggy lives.
You can see them out for dinner
With their piggy wives.

Thank you, George. You were SO far ahead of your time!

:evilgrin:
dbt

[DeathvadeR]

2. The only real Nation to back us in Iraq and look at the Truth Marching!!!!

[pdove]

3. 70,000 or 200,000

When will we get truth from our freedom press of CNN, MSNBC, and FOX?

[tinnypriv]

7. Isn't that a logical impossibility? (nt)

[alfredo]

10. Faux neuz is reporting 50,000

they are so full of shit.

[Ediacara]

12. I have learned through the years

That the REAL totals for marches are around 75-85% the total estimated by organizers. This gives us about 150,000-170,000. The London police gave an estimate of 75,000, which is par for the course with cops, and even less surprising, is Fox downgrading the numbers even more to 50,000!

[koopie57]

13. I heard

70,000 too on one of those cable news shows, but he prefaced it with ... it was not a great success as only about 70,000 marchers showed up. It was some comment like that.

[xchrom]

4. ooowee

that rocks -- that is so awesome.
protest on, y'all!

[Cha]

5. Go you Lovely Brits! Thanks so much from

your American cousins! :kick: :yourock:

[mike_c]

6. thank you, brothers and sisters in the U.K....

The world was watching today. Thank you.

[Holly]

8. To our British heros

200,000 strong. Thank you from a Canadian. There is hope...truth and honour among us.:toast:

[Fovea]

9. In our hour of darkness

It is good to know that we have 200,000 friends who care about America enough to intervene.

[drscm]

11. Who cares?

I turned on CNN for a half an hour - something I rarely do.

What do I see in between the advertisements?

Michael Jackson's SUV with a running commentary that could have been summarized on the head of a pin.

I bet *Bush is just thanking his "god" for Michael right now.

[Gman]

14. Don't discount that Karl Rove made a call to the Santa Barbara DA

and told him he needed to move on Jackson. Something the DA or police said yesterday caught my attention and made me raise my eye brows. Either the DA or the police chief or whoever in the news conference yesterday said something about Michael Jackson's "apologists" which is almost a stock phrase used by the right wing. Sometimes its the little things like the "apologists" remark that gives away something a lot bigger. Sometimes.

The big news ended up being Jackson and took much of the thunder away from the protestors. However, the pulling down of the Bush statue did get live coverage on CNN.

The Jackson diversion is reminiscent of things like a jet airliner crashing in NYC the day the final report on the Florida recounst came out.

[BurntIceCubeTray]

15. Thanks to the Mirrow for the 200k number

All the other major sources are saying about 20,000!

How do we know there were not over a million there protesting the leadership?

[buycitgo]

17. ALL?

care to name ONE "major source" that said 20K????

even the bobbies said seventy thousand

hmmmm

[BurntIceCubeTray]

19. Six O'clock news on ABC, CBS and NBC said less than 100k

That's what I heard and I'm sticking to it. They are not my numbers.

[Liberal Veteran]

21. Because only American media can be trusted?

ROTFLMAO!

[Media_Lies_Daily]

22. Whose numbers are they?...

After all the lies and deceptive reporting by the mainstream media over the last several years, and you're telling us that you trust them to report accurately on anything??

[hadrons]

16. bet the networks were looking for the 12 Freepers who march in support of

Dumbya and his poodle

[Swede]

20. ITV and the Guardian are saying the same thing.

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-12930426,00.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/antiwar/story/0,12809,1090122,00.html

[bread_and_roses]

23. Thank you, friends in Britain

you give us hope and energy.