STARTS 6PM, outside Colchester Town Hall, North Essex.
The army is trying to cover up the fact that 2 members of the Colchester based elite air assault brigade have been sent home from the Gulf for discussing doubts and objections to this war.

Colonel Barton, the garrison boss has instead written a front page local newspaper article which bitterly attacks Colchester peace campaigners for daring to continue to organise protests in our own town.

Tony Blair has even written an open letter to the people of Colchester urging them to support the war!

They do not like the fact that around half the local population, including many army families, still oppose this brutal, bloody and insane war.

Soldiers families feel lied to by the military, and want to know when their loved ones can come home. It is now obvious that our troops are not being greeted as liberators, even by opponents of Saddam in the Shia population of southern Iraq, where the 16 air assault brigade is now engaged.

Rather, people now glimpse the appalling vista of years of military occupation and bitter guerilla war, worse than in Northern Ireland or the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

We do not want to waste the fine young men and women of Colchester's garrison policing a bitter and conquered Iraqi population for George Bush and his friends in the oil corporations.

Army families do not want their sons, husbands and dads killed, injured or mentally traumatised for life after witnessing the brutal deaths and mutilation of innocent Iraqi civilians.

Bring the Troops Home! Stop the War! No to Occupation!
No More Blood for Oil! Stuff Bush and Blair's new colonial empire!

Be there, 6pm, Colchester Town Hall, High St, Colchester, North Essex.