Thousands Rally Across US Against Bush Policies

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By Christine Kearney

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Thousands of protesters staged rallies on Wednesday across the United States against the policies of
President George W. Bush, including the war in
Iraq and response to Hurricane Katrina.

The World Can't Wait organization, a coalition of groups formed recently to stage the rallies, used the anniversary of Bush's re-election to call for his resignation in protests that took place in cities including New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, San Francisco and Chicago.

In New York, students walked out of schools and colleges and joined other supporters as thousands rallied in Union Square before marching nearly 2 miles to Times Square along avenues lined with police on motorbikes.

"The Bush regime is out to remake the world with its policies," said organizer Sunsara Taylor. "From the war in Iraq to environmental policies to the remaking of the Supreme Court ... we are staring down the barrel of fascism in this country."

Demonstrators chanted and carried banners in a mainly peaceful protest. Police said three people were arrested.

Olivier Martineau, 16, walked out of his high school with 17 others to join the march. "I am strongly against the war in Iraq," he said. "We are always sticking our noses into other people's business when we don't even realize our battles at home."

Student Tuarian Wolfe, 19, carried a sign reading "No Iraqi ever left me on my rooftop to die," to protest the slow response to help poor people stranded in New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina.

Organizers said they planned to interrupt Bush's next State of the Union address in January.

In Chicago, organizers estimated more than 500 people attended a downtown rally amid police dressed in riot gear. A few masked protesters waved Iraq flags and vandalized American flags.

James Crimmins, 59, said he objected to "a war based on lies," while Gloria Rosenzweig, 60, said she protested Bush's record on the environment and believed young people were becoming more politicized.

"This war is now resonating with youth with the military recruiting in their high schools and they know they are not far away from danger," she said.

(Additional reporting by Michael Conlon in Chicago)
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Originally Posted by L.A. BRONCOS FAN

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Thats an interesting graphic.. clearly the economic conditions contributed to that more than the presidency. But I do wonder, in the late 90's true Republicanism was at its height (the Gingrich Republicans) as a fairly fiscally conservative president was coupled with a congress committed to better spending habits...

The election of Bush changed all of that. Its hard to draw any causality from that, but at the same time it does make you wonder...

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Originally Posted by enjolras

Thats an interesting graphic.. clearly the economic conditions contributed to that more than the presidency. But I do wonder, in the late 90's true Republicanism was at its height (the Gingrich Republicans) as a fairly fiscally conservative president was coupled with a congress committed to better spending habits...

The election of Bush changed all of that. Its hard to draw any causality from that, but at the same time it does make you wonder...

Bull****, the fiscal responsiblity came from Clinton. Its a joke that Republicans are still thought of as conseratives, because there is nothing conservative about their spending habits!!!!!!

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Originally Posted by L.A. BRONCOS FAN

The Silverado Banking, Savings and Loan Scandal still eats at me! It was when first developed my sincere dislike for the Bush family. We are are still Paying for that, and I think we will still be paying for that for quite a while...

Neil Bush is another example of Bush Family Morals, We're RICH and we are not going to take the consequences for our own actions and we're going to MAKE THE TAXPAYER PAY FOR ALL OUR MISTAKES!!!!!!

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Originally Posted by Play2Win

Bull****, the fiscal responsiblity came from Clinton. Its a joke that Republicans are still thought of as conseratives, because there is nothing conservative about their spending habits!!!!!!

Clinton did play a key role in the return of fiscal responsibility in the 90s but you are not giving proper credit to Republicans in Congress like former House Budget Cmte. Chairman John Kasich and former Speaker Gingrich. Alot of their innovative ideas got enacted into law including but not limited to a slowdown on the increase of discretionary spending as well as the end of zero based budgeting. Kasich was a great reformer.

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Originally Posted by SoCalBronco

Clinton did play a key role in the return of fiscal responsibility in the 90s but you are not giving proper credit to Republicans in Congress like former House Budget Cmte. Chairman John Kasich and former Speaker Gingrich. Alot of their innovative ideas got enacted into law including but not limited to a slowdown on the increase of discretionary spending as well as the end of zero based budgeting. Kasich was a great reformer.

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Originally Posted by SoCalBronco

Clinton did play a key role in the return of fiscal responsibility in the 90s...

Careful! You're going to make W*GS go apoplectic talking like that...