New aggressions and hatred incitement have once more punctuated the "anti-war" demonstrations in France yesterday.

TF1, the #1 TV network not owned by the State in France, in an article titled "In France [anti-war] mobilization decreases", stated:

"No major incident has been reported. (...)
For the first time in Paris, about 30 'mediators' were wearing white caps and made sure there was no anti-semitic outburst, verbal or visual aggression. (...)
But the mediators' task was not easy"

Indeed. According to an Associated Press Article, relating yesterday's demonstrations:

"A man and a woman, who protested against the participation of activists holding Saddam Hussein's portraits, were thrown to the ground and beaten up by about 20 young people, whose faces were covered by keffiehs. (...)
Both attacked people were slightly injured. No one was arrested.
(...)
After the end of the demonstration in Marseilles, a group of about 100 people shouted: 'From Marseilles to Gaza, Sionism won't succeed', 'We are all Iraqis', 'We are all suicide bombers', 'Bush, murderer, glory to God and Saddam', 'Glory to Bin Laden'.
(...)
In Lille, while the demonstration was ending, a small group of women and young people burnt American, British and Israeli flags while a demonstrator was screaming: 'Glory to Saddam Hussein, glory to the republican guard'."

I'm wondering why these guys didn't go to Iraq with human shields to protect the Iraqi people fight for the mad man they glorify instead of participating in useless yet dangerous demonstrations...

30 mediatiors? Apointed by the government or by themselves? I doubt it would make much difference... just wondering.

Appointed by the organizers of the demonstration...

Did you notice the "white caps"? They were indeed a symbol of... white flags :)

I like how they call Bush a murderer and in the very same breath say "We are all suicide bombers"

they make it too easy!

The glorification of Saddam Hussein by a part of the muslim worlwide population is a "splendid" result of this war , that will comes back one day or another as a boomerang in the US face.

so Marc you prefer to kiss a tyrant's ass by selling him arms and a nuclear reactor while he is killing his people and his neighbors, just for fear that he may be angry at you?

Humm...

Then if I follow your logic, Germans should still glorify Hitler today, shouldn't they?...

"Marc you prefer to kiss a tyrant's ass by selling him arms and a nuclear reactor "
The trade with Iraq was a world wide sport in the eighties. The best are undoubtly Russian.
If France sold weapons and nuclear reactor, it may be simply because they won the "market" in which other countries,like US, were also involved ...
The nuclear reactor serves for Electricity, and even the US officials didn't deny it...

Saddam Hussein did kill his neighbours, and a clear justified war was then started, and won by a large coalition.

"Saddam Hussein killed his people".
It's a real myth. A false view of the situation to feed a propaganda.
Can we reasonably call Kurds as "his people" as, they are a distinct ethnic group, always in conflitc with Saddam autorities ,and as they were the first to revolt at the beginning of First Gulf war?

It's because it was impossible for an Iraqian soldier to put a foot in this region, that was already almost a distinct country, that Saddam Hussein used weapons against them. It was not already "his people".

Marc Levis condones Saddam's gassing of the Kurds at Halabja .

Ok, I give up....

We might as well talk to a brick wall.

Damian, it's not fair to deform my words.
Such techniques are used when people run out of arguments . Do you ?

Mon. Levis,

Your words are on plain view in this thread:

It's because it was impossible for an Iraqian soldier to put a foot in this region, that was already almost a distinct country, that Saddam Hussein used weapons against them.

No distortion on my part necessary.

Perhaps your English isn't up to your argument -- your ethnography is certainly confused -- but it is not an unreasonable conclusion that in acting as Mr. Hussein's apologist you are in sympathy with the apology. In justifying the gassing of the Kurds, you condone it.

As for running out of arguments, well, Mon. Levis, arguments are a function of defending a position taken. They are provisional not quantitative.

That you think arguments are unlimited provisions from a delimited pantry is evidenced in your calling on opponents to prove negatives. You win that one every time.

You take many positions, sometimes several conflicted positions in the same post. However you don't successfully defend them. Most times you don't even bother.

You reject sources cited here but offer none of your own; you attribute disagreeable facts to Fox News; you have some secret list of trustworthy corroborative news sources that you won't share; you flit in and make bald claims then disappear elsewhere.

Most days your arguments are like a badly managed sock drawer where any two dissimilar things can be pulled together ensemble and damn the enthymemes.

I've as many arguments as sound reasoning and the facts can support. I've as many arguments as are required to defend a position and no more.

I also have the grace and sense to concede when a position is weak or wrong because no strong argument can be mustered.

To date you've not given me cause.

Regards,
DGB