Salt Lake City...? Venue for a Bush protest...?

oh, my, my, my... this could possibly put a crimp in george's 5-day push to sell the war...

Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson called for "the biggest demonstration this state has ever seen" to protest President Bush's appearance Monday before a national veterans convention.

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"There should be a collaboration of health-care-provision advocates, seniors, the [gay, lesbian and bisexual and transsexual] community, anti-Patriot Act advocates and other civil libertarians, anti-war folks, pro-Social Security advocates, environmental advocates, anti-nuclear-testing advocates, and anti-nuclear-waste- shipment-and-storage advocates," the mayor wrote in the e-mail.

The mayor's message drew a howl of outrage from Mike Parkin, senior vice commander of Veterans of Foreign Wars Atomic Post 4355 in Salt Lake City.

"Excuse my French, but - that son of a bitch!" he said. "It makes the mayor look very, very unpatriotic. It makes him look despicable."

i totally fail to understand why any veteran in her right mind would support bush... as a veteran myself with both my oldest son and his wife working for the veterans administration, i am all too aware of the havoc bush is creating with veterans, veterans programs and veterans benefits... every time i see a vehicle on the road with one of those "veterans for bush," i wanna pull the driver over and ask what in the world she can be thinking...

(thanks once again to raw story...)

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