http://www.peoplefirstpolitics.com/olympic-torch-run-protests/ Politics that put people first Thu, 11 Jun 2009 19:39:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://www.peoplefirstpolitics.com/olympic-torch-run-protests/comment-page-1/#comment-710 Aileen Thu, 10 Apr 2008 21:14:57 +0000 http://www.peoplefirstpolitics.com/olympic-torch-run-protests/#comment-710 Hi, Andy. Let's hope you're right that the Iraq occupation (can't be a war, since Bush declared the war over on that aircraft carrier wearing his studly flight suit) will be over by 2012. The torch run is kind of cool for drumming up interest - we'd probably forget there are Olympics if somebody didn't remind us every 4 years or so), but given its history, it's also a target for protests when the hosts have been behaving badly. That should be okay too. Hi, Andy. Let’s hope you’re right that the Iraq occupation (can’t be a war, since Bush declared the war over on that aircraft carrier wearing his studly flight suit) will be over by 2012. The torch run is kind of cool for drumming up interest – we’d probably forget there are Olympics if somebody didn’t remind us every 4 years or so), but given its history, it’s also a target for protests when the hosts have been behaving badly. That should be okay too.

]]> http://www.peoplefirstpolitics.com/olympic-torch-run-protests/comment-page-1/#comment-709 Andy Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:54:07 +0000 http://www.peoplefirstpolitics.com/olympic-torch-run-protests/#comment-709 Given the anti-UK feeling following the Iraq war, I have a suspicion that there won't be a global torch run in 2012. Given the anti-UK feeling following the Iraq war, I have a suspicion that there won’t be a global torch run in 2012.

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