<--Followers of radical anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada al-Sadr tear up an American flag in the holy city of Najaf on April 9, the fourth anniversary of the fall of Baghdad to U.S. forces. Tens of thousands draped themselves in Iraqi flags and marched through the streets of two Shiite holy cities, Najaf and Kufah, in a rally that was called for by al-Sadr, who issued a statement ordering his militiamen to redouble their battle to oust American forces.
After a weekend in which 10 U.S. soldiers were killed—four more were killed on Monday, bringing the total to 45 already in April—and the citizens of once bustling Baghdad cowered in their homes under a U.S.-imposed round-the-clock curfew, President Bush had the good sense for once to say not a word about the glorious “liberation” of Iraq. Instead, as Dana Milbank noted in The Washington Post, the president never mentioned Iraq in a 24-minute speech he gave on the happier subject of illegal immigration, nor did any of his top aides touch on the topic. The White House website ignored Iraq entirely under the heading “LATEST NEWS,” instead featuring Clifford the Big Red Dog’s romp at the South Lawn’s annual Easter egg hunt.
Meanwhile, back in liberated Iraq, the anniversary of Saddam Hussein’s overthrow was marked by only one sign of public response: In the Shiite holy city of Najaf, hundreds of thousands gathered to burn American flags and otherwise denounce the United States. “Yes! Yes! Iraq. No! No! America,” chanted demonstrators organized by cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, reported the BBC. “We were liberated from Saddam. Now we need to be liberated again. Stop the suffering. Americans leave now.”
What part of “leave now” doesn’t Lieberman get? Speaking of the rally called by Sadr to blast the Americans as Iraq’s “archenemy” and to demand “that the occupiers withdraw from our land,” Lieberman surreally sought to find a silver lining of support for U.S. policy: “[Sadr] is not calling for a resurgence of sectarian conflict. He’s striking a nationalist chord. He’s acknowledging that the surge is working,” he said.
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Yes the Iraqis are thankful for us saving them from Sadam Hussein, cough, cough and they are showing their appreciation for the good we have done to improve their country cough, cough isn't their quality of life so much better now?
Bush could care less what the Iraq people want he's holding on to their country as a true invador. I noticed even Iraq soldiers joined in the march yes the ones who work side by side with US soldiers. At lease we know how the Iraq soldiers feel about the Bush appointed puppet govenment. I think the Iraq people should get a leader who stands up against the Bush Adminiatration and take their country back. Bush used these people to steal their oil he had Saddam killed make sure he didn't talk. Deals have been made by Bush with all the countries he called the axis of evil it was all a front. Syria held with torture for the US and Bush doesnt' want Pelosi to find out.
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