Thinkprogress:
The AP reports that Shiite protesters “stomped on and burned an effigy of President George W. Bush in the same central Baghdad square where Iraqis beat a toppled statue of Saddam Hussein with their sandals five years earlier.” Shiites were protesting the proposed U.S.-Iraqi security pact because it would allow American troops to remain in their country for three more years. A Friday prayer sermon written by Muqtada Al-Sadr was read by his representative, Sheik Abdul Hadi al-Mohammadawi:
“The government must know that it is the people who help it in the good and the bad times. If it throws the occupier out all the Iraqi people will stand by it,” the sermon read, using common rhetoric for the United States.
3 comments:
I'm so sorry, I'm trying VERY hard not to laugh!
Yep, the Iraqis now wish W never took over, and think it was better when Saddam was leader, things were much better for them than with W in charge, and they think of W as more evil than Saddam or his sons were collectively (just go to some middle Eastern news sites, they think of the Gerbil as the most evil vial blood sucking venomous snake ever to crawl the face of the earth)
Nope and you wonder why so many refused to shake the Gerbil's hand at the last Summit (from the CNN footage you posted)
Look for Bagdad to honor Obama/Biden soon. That will be a smack in the face to the Bush Administration.
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