Anti-War Protesters March to Obama Campaign HQ, European Consulates

[The Northerner]

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CHICAGO (CBS) – Some 150 anti-war and anti-NATO protestors marched to the Prudential Building on Thursday afternoon, unsuccessfully seeking a meeting with a representative of President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign headquarters.

WBBM Newsradio’s John Cody reports the demonstrators arrived with a letter for the president, calling for a swift end to the war in Afghanistan, but were denied admission to the building.

No representative came down to meet them, so they proceeded with their protest against the NATO summit, the war in Afghanistan, and the use of military drones for targeted killings in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

As one protester held up a cardboard drone, a dozen demonstrators laid down on Randolph Street, each wearing the name of a drone strike victim, pretending to be struck by the cardboard drone. Each “victim” called out the name of a drone strike casualty, then asked for an end to the use of targeted drone attacks.

Read more: http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2012/05/17/anti-war-protesters-march-to-obama-campaign-hq-european-consulates/

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[TheWraith]

2. Gosh, somebody managed to find 150 isolationist kooks in a major city.

Alert the media!

[The Northerner]

4. Since when was opposition to global imperialism and mass murdering equivalent to isolationism?

[Cali_Democrat]

5. People wanting to end the war in Afghanistan along with the drone strikes are isolationist kooks?

[gratuitous]

6. You're looking for logic where there is none

See, we're the good guys, so the people getting themselves killed by remote control in Yemen (If they're not terrorists that is, and really, if they're not terrorists, why don't they prove it so they don't get themselves killed so we can shoot our missiles at worthier targets?) should be proud of their part in our global war under God against terrorism.

See how kooky that is?

[Comrade Grumpy]

8. And somebody managed to find an asshole on a discussion board.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

3. They just don't understand that we're murdering people for their own good..

or good "Tough on Terra" PR.

[gratuitous]

7. We also appear to have some more dicking around to do in Afghanistan

So we won't be leaving anytime soon.