Yep.
Thousands take to Iraqi streets to protest "terrorism"
Wed Dec 10,11:27 AM ET Add Mideast - AFP to My Yahoo!
BAGHDAD (AFP) - Thousands of Iraqis, some watched over by US Apache helicopters, demonstrated in Baghdad and other cities to condemn "terrorism" in their country.
AFP Photo
More than 200 protesters from the Iraqi National Congress and other political parties, women's groups and sheikhs in traditional dress gathered near the National Theatre in Baghdad and marched to a central Baghdad hotel.
"This is the national campaign against terrorism and sabotage," said Abo Thaer, 55, a member of the Iraqi Communist Party. His party members turned out with giant red flags bearing the hammer and sickle.
Participants Wednesday said the rallies marked International Human Rights Day.
A similar protest last Friday in the capital attracted about 1,000 Iraqis.
American-led occupying forces who toppled dictator Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) in April are battling daily attacks by insurgents whom they regularly brand terrorists.
On Monday a suicide car bomber wounded 58 US soldiers at their base near the northern capital of Mosul while in Baghdad a bomb killed three worshippers at a Sunni mosque.
"Terrorism .... will delay the process of rebuilding," said Eklass Khudhir, 30, one of four women holding a banner from the Iraqi Women's Organization.
She said it was their first protest against terrorism.
Hussein al-Musaya, a former Iraqi exile who helped organize the rally, said numerous political parties had come together to state their opposition to terorism.
"It's also a message of thanks to the coalition force for liberating Iraq (news - web sites) from the dictator," said Musaya, an official with the Liberal Republic Iraqi Party.
"We will not allow the fascists to come back," added Farook al-Shamari, 63.
"I don't belong to any party but I am against terrorism and fascism. We lived under the aggression of fascism for 40 years," he said.
He said he lost his teaching job and was jailed for six months for refusing to join the ruling Baath party in 1979, the year Saddam Hussein gained control of the country.
Qutaiba Khalid, and his wife Taghreed Jasin, both 28, said they were representing students as well as the Communist Party.
With a red neckerchief and purple-tinted sunglasses, Khalid said violence "will endanger the lives of innocent people and it will delay the departure of the occupying force."
American helicopters flew above the protesters and at least seven Iraqi police cars were stationed nearby. Several US soldiers watched from a discreet distance away.
More than 2,500 protesters marched in the holy Shiite cities of Najaf and Karbala south of Baghdad. They asked for the transfer of security from the coalition to Iraqis.
A banner carried by the demonstrators in Najaf read, "Killing children is not resistance."
Another said: "Saddam Hussein and (Osama) bin Laden are two sides of the same coin."
In the Sunni town of Ramadi west of Baghdad, a hotbed of anti-US sentiment, about 100 people protested after a call by the local council.
They gathered under the protection of American troops while a counter-demonstration of about 70 people carrying photos of the Koran and Mecca threw stones at the Americans. Iraqi police dispersed them.
Other demonstrations also took place in Baqubah just north of Baghdad, and at Suleimaniya in Iraqi Kurdistan.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...o_031210162701
From
this article the estimates are between 5,000 and 10,000 people protested in Baghdad.
"I read a book twice as fast as anybody else. First, I read the beginning, and then I read the ending, and then I start in the middle and read toward whatever end I like best." - Gracie Allen
Yep.
"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. "
-Bokonon
But they don't want our effort, some here say?
Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
"Hating America is something best left to Mobius. He is an expert Yank hater.
He also hates Texans and Australians, he does diversify." ~ Braindead
Too bad that the terrorists probably won't care though..they never do.
DULCE BELLUM INEXPERTIS
Why the " " marks?"terrorism"
I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for. –Senator Rubio
Hey, I just copied and pasted - they were in the article.Originally posted by DinoDoc
Why the " " marks?"terrorism"
"I read a book twice as fast as anybody else. First, I read the beginning, and then I read the ending, and then I start in the middle and read toward whatever end I like best." - Gracie Allen
They don't want our effort in doing inane, irresponsible things, like our recent creation of a paramilitary force based on the 5 main party militias.But they don't want our effort, some here say?
"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. "
-Bokonon
1. This wasn't an "I love America!!!" demonstration. This was a "I hate terrorism!!!" demonstrationOriginally posted by SlowwHand
But they don't want our effort, some here say?
2. There have been many demonstrations, some numbering in at around 10,000+ people, which were anti-american
I'd want the US in too....If it could just begin looking out for Iraq instead of it's own interests.
Eventis is the only refuge of the spammer. Join us now.
Long live teh paranoia smiley! http://www.eventis.ws/images/smilies/emot-tinfoil.gif
Good for them.
If you don't like reality, change it! me
"Oh no! I am bested!" Drake :(
"it is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong" Voltaire
"Patriotism is a pernecious, psychopathic form of idiocy" George Bernard Shaw
Ah, reminds me of pre-War pro-Saddam "demonstrations"...
Blog | Civ2 Scenario League | leo.petr at gmail.com
You think we used the same methods to manufacture a demo as Saddam did?Originally posted by St Leo
Ah, reminds me of pre-War pro-Saddam "demonstrations"...
7 out of 10.
"A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.” Martin Buber
healingiraq has some great pics of this demonstation.
"A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.” Martin Buber
Didn't LotM post this a couple days ago?
Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...
A thread about a rally that took place yesterday?Originally posted by chegitz guevara
Didn't LotM post this a couple days ago?
Honing your visionary skill, LotM?
"I read a book twice as fast as anybody else. First, I read the beginning, and then I read the ending, and then I start in the middle and read toward whatever end I like best." - Gracie Allen
Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...
A similar protest last Friday in the capital attracted about 1,000 Iraqis.
Read the article, dumbass.
I'm consitently stupid- Japher
I think that opinion in the United States is decidedly different from the rest of the world because we have a free press -- by free, I mean a virgorously presented right wing point of view on the air and available to all.- Ned
apparently the demo on Friday was organized by a different group then yesterdays rally. The one yesterday was coordinated with rallies in other cities as well, including in Ramadi in the "sunni triangle" while Fridays was ONLY in Baghdad. Looks like yesterdays was better attended as well.
Guevera's confusion is quite understandable, givin the proliferation of groups, rallies, etc.
Let a thousand flowers bloom.
"A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.” Martin Buber
Special For Guevara - this scene from the demonstration:
"A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.” Martin Buber
heres another (not commies this time)
"A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.” Martin Buber
Iraqi National Congress (pro-western group, definitely not Commies)
"A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.” Martin Buber
That fat guy in the commie picture with the leather jacket? I think I know him.
Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...
you mean the guy with the clipboard, not the guy with the flag?
"A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.” Martin Buber
Considering that the amount of resistors is estimated to be less than 5000 people this should tell anyone really willing to listen that the Iraqis are really glad that we are there.Originally posted by Edan
From
this article the estimates are between 5,000 and 10,000 people protested in Baghdad.
"I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration somehow you're not patriotic. We should stand up and say we are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration." - Hillary Clinton, 2003
Yeah. I can't be sure, but really, how many Iraqi commies are there in the world?Originally posted by lord of the mark
you mean the guy with the clipboard, not the guy with the flag?
Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...
That or that they don't want the "resistence" killing Iraqis to get at the Americans.Originally posted by PLATO
Considering that the amount of resistors is estimated to be less than 5000 people this should tell anyone really willing to listen that the Iraqis are really glad that we are there.
Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...
Quite alot actually. In the 1950's the Iraqi Communist Party was major force, especially among the poorer Shiites, who were BY NO MEANS all fundamentalists. In fact they came close to taking over, and there are rumours that the CIA backed the original Baathist coup (pre-Saddam) to avoid a communist takeover. I presume the Saddam years devastated them, but its certainly quite possible that they will revive now. They would certainly represent the only major secularist force that is both Anti-Baathist and highly skeptical of the Americans. (IIUC theyve recently withdrawn their earlier support for the Iraqi Governing Council)Originally posted by chegitz guevara
Yeah. I can't be sure, but really, how many Iraqi commies are there in the world?
"A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.” Martin Buber
I know they got the first paper up and running after the fall of Hussein.
Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...
Yes, those other millions of Iraqi's would also have protested if it wasn't for the 5000 resistorsOriginally posted by PLATO
Considering that the amount of resistors is estimated to be less than 5000 people this should tell anyone really willing to listen that the Iraqis are really glad that we are there.
Since more Iraqis are being killed right now that Americans, that is actually a possibility. Just cuz Hussein isn't in power doesn't mean he still doesn't have many in the grip of terror.Originally posted by atawa
Yes, those other millions of Iraqi's would also have protested if it wasn't for the 5000 resistors
Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...
It is quite possible that the communist in Iraq could end up with more than just a token role in government. The party is obviously pretty highly organized there.Originally posted by chegitz guevara
Yeah. I can't be sure, but really, how many Iraqi commies are there in the world?
"I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration somehow you're not patriotic. We should stand up and say we are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration." - Hillary Clinton, 2003
Posting Permissions
Bookmarks