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Subject: [NYTr] Salt Lake City: Next Battleground Over Iraq War
Date: 22 Aug 2005 12:40:38 -0500
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sent by Ed Pearl - Aug 21, 2005

Salt Lake City: The Next Battleground on Iraq War

Mayor Calls for "Biggest Demo the State Has Ever Seen" Protesting Bush

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.  "This administration has been
disastrous to the country," Anderson said Friday. "If people could organize
and speak out in an effective manner from the reddest state in the country,
that would garner a lot of attention."

In an e-mail  Wednesday to about 10 activist leaders, the maverick mayor of
Utah's capital called for a diverse demonstration to greet Bush when he
speaks to the Veterans of Foreign Wars at the Salt Palace Convention Center.
The mayor plans to join the protesters.

"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."

Parkin said such demonstrations, particularly  against the Iraq war, give
comfort to America's enemies and will be particularly offensive to the 13 to
14,000 veterans gathering at the convention. "I voted for the son of a bitch
and I'll never vote for him again," said the Vietnam War veteran.

Anderson disagrees with that measure of patriotism. "Patriotism," the mayor
said, "demands that people speak out when we see our government officials
acting in such anti-democratic and deceitful ways to the people of our
country."
       
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