Protests across state and vandalism mark 5th anniversary of Iraq war
State NewsThe fifth anniversary of the Iraq war was marked in Wisconsin by protests in several cities, vandalism to an Army recruiting center in Milwaukee and a warning by the State GOP leader that we’d lose worldwide credibility if we cut and run.
The fifth anniversary of the Iraq war was marked in Wisconsin by protests in several cities, vandalism to an Army recruiting center in Milwaukee and a warning by the State GOP leader that we’d lose worldwide credibility if we cut and run.
About 100 people rallied at the State Capitol, screaming “Hell no, we won’t go, we won’t fight for Texaco.”
Madison eighth-grader Elena Barham told a reporter that President Bush is willing to measure human life in oil.
Almost 40 people took their complaints to U.S. Sen. Herb Kohl’s, D-Wis., Madison office and two Homeland Security officers helped break up the crowd.
The Milwaukee Army recruiting station was the same one vandals hit a year ago, when 21 people were arrested.
This time, the spray-painters apparently sneaked their way in and out late Monday night or early Tuesday, writing things like “Five Years Too Many” and “War is Offensive.”
Other protests occurred in Elm Grove, Kenosha, Evansville, Mazomanie, Manitowoc, Appleton, and Minocqua.
State GOP director Mark Jefferson called the protestors extremists.
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