Adelaide refuses to be Bush-whacked

US President George "Dubbya" Bush never made it to Adelaide 
during his brief visit to Australia last week. This did not stop 
about 300 local people taking their protest to the steps of the 
State Parliament last Friday evening. Strong feelings were 
expressed on a number of issues involving the so-called "leader 
of the free world".

Professor Ian Maddocks of the Medical Association for the 
Prevention of War spoke to the crowd about the post-war situation 
in Iraq and Afghanistan. He offered the following view about the 
force responsible for the suffering:

"The Bush administration is an unhealthy power. It promises 
vengeance and feeds on fear to justify America's own terrorist 
methods — from the A-bomb, through Agent Orange to the attack on 
Iraq. It makes no apology for illegal acts of questionable 
morality, because it knows it is right — might is right."

Democrat MLC Sandra Kanck, Iraqi ant-war activist Saad, Flinders 
University lecturer David Palmer, Adelaide University lecturer 
Tony Burke and Ruth Russell — who was a human shield in Iraq 
during the most recent war — also addressed the crowd on the 
hawkish behaviour of the unwelcome US head of state.

The protest was organised by NOWAR.