Blair in Rome: PRODI PROVOKES THE ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT

WE DON’T WANT BLAIR IN ROME

In these days we have repeatedly asked the [Romano] Prodi government to abolish the obscene war parade of June 2. Why should the Holiday of the Republic be celebrated with lethal weapons and units of the occupation troops of Iraq and Afghanistan? Why not transform it into a holiday for everyone, eliminating the military presence?
No answer: the parade has been confirmed.

We have then asked the new president of the House, Bertinotti [Fausto Bertinotti, former leader of Rifondazione Communist Party] and the parliamentarians who in these years have been/and in the anti-war demonstrations if at least they could stay far away from the parade. Why they would have to be on the reviewing stand for a war exhibition that all the anti-war movement rejects and will protest?
No positive answer.

We have asked for the immediate and complete withdrawal of the troops not only from Iraq but also from Afghanistan: and now we learn that the government is leaving the troops not only in Afghanistan but also in Iraq, at least 800 soldiers, and will withdraw the others only in the autumn, which is even worse than what [rightist former Prime Minister Silvio] Berlusconi had scheduled.

On top of this Prodi decided to seriously provoke the movement against the war: June 2 will not only be a war parade, but in Rome Prodi will meet Tony Blair, the main person responsible, with Bush, for the war in Iraq, the inventor of the tragic myth of the "weapons of mass destruction,” used to justify the aggression, the person responsible along with Bush for the horrible terrorist massacres like the one in Fallujah and many others.

Prodi will go arm in arm with the worst warmongers just like Berlusconi would?

WE DO NOT WANT THE GREATEST TERRORIST OF THE WORLD (AFTER BUSH) IN ROME.

KEEP BLAIR OUT OF ROME, KEEP THE MILITARY OUT OF ROME, GET ALL THE TROOPS OUT OF IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN, IMMEDIATELY.

Piero Bernocchi

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