| Subject: The Killers Among Us |
| From: Crotalidae |
| Date: 21/06/2004, 05:20 |
| Newsgroups: alt.paranet.ufo,alt.ufo.reports,alt.alien.research,uk.rec.ufo,sci.skeptic |
On Sun, 20 Jun 2004 14:17:24 +0200, "lombo243" <--@--.--> wrote:
do some grey hunting in my italy vacations. There is
still this grey base to crack there.
Romans welcome Bush with protest
Even Pope gives rebuke to president
Alludes to `deplorable' torture cases
SANDRO CONTENTA
EUROPEAN BUREAU
ROME—Sixty years ago, Franco Salvini danced in the streets of the Eternal
City when American soldiers helped liberate Rome from the Nazis and
Fascists.
Yesterday, the 80-year-old retired lawyer marched with tens of thousands
calling for U.S. President George W. Bush — in the capital to commemorate
the liberation — to go home.
"He's not welcome here," said Salvini, who fought to liberate the rest of
Italy after American, Canadian and Allied forces marched into Rome on June
4, 1944.
"I've always loved Americans, and still do. But this Bush administration has
done harm to the world. They think war brings peace, but war only brings
pain and hate," said the lifelong Roman, clutching a rainbow-coloured peace
flag.
The massive anti-Bush protest, watched by the lion's share of 10,000 riot
police deployed in Rome, overshadowed a day of photo opportunities for an
American president facing a tough re-election campaign.
At this low point in American-European relations, the memory of the United
States' decisive role in World War II isn't enough to stem widespread anger
in Europe over the war in Iraq.
Even an ailing Pope John Paul II gave Bush what amounted to a diplomatic `I
told you so' over the war.
He clearly alluded to the "deplorable" torture of Iraqi prisoners by U.S.
soldiers.
Seated next to Bush at the Vatican, the pontiff spoke of the "grave unrest"
in the Middle East, and pointedly reminded the president that he disregarded
the Holy See's "many diplomatic efforts" to avoid his so-called preventive
war.
The Pope called for a greater United Nations role in rebuilding Iraq, and "a
speedy return of Iraq's sovereignty." He described as "an encouraging step"
this week's appointment of an interim Iraqi government.
Perhaps his strongest criticism, levelled in the typically veiled language
of Vatican diplomacy, came as the Pope spoke of the continuing "threat of
international terrorism."
He described it as having "seriously affected normal and peaceful relations
between states and peoples" since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the U.S.
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