Sixth anniversary of Baghdad’s fall marked by huge anti-American protests.
By on Apr 9th, 2009 at 10:35 am
Sixth anniversary of Baghdad’s fall marked by huge anti-American protests.
Six years ago today, coalition forces defeated Saddam Hussein’s regime and watched the toppling of the dictator’s statue in Firdos Square. President Bush called the day “one of the great moments in the history of liberty.” However, today many Iraqis are marking the day with anti-American protests rather than celebrations. “Tens of thousands of followers of anti-American Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr thronged Baghdad” to demand the immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops. Protestors shouted, “Down, down USA” and “No, no occupation,” and burned American flags and an effigy of Bush. The AP notes that the demonstrations also coincided “with an uptick in bombings of Shiite targets around the city.”
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Peace?
April 9th, 2009 at 10:36 am‘…6 days, 6 weeks, I doubt 6 months…
6 years & counting, Rummy.
Hope you’re spending your retirement money on futures; you’re SO prescient.
April 9th, 2009 at 10:38 amCondi Rice, “No, no George dear. They are saying, “Boooosh!”
April 9th, 2009 at 10:40 amThey’re still burning effigies of Bush… bwa ha ha ha!
April 9th, 2009 at 10:41 amGee, not celebrating our occupation or destruction of their country? I wonder what’s wrong with those ingrates???
snark off/
April 9th, 2009 at 10:41 amDidn’t Doug Feith (or some other a$$licker) predict there would be a ‘George Bush Plaza’ in Baghdad?
April 9th, 2009 at 10:42 amSixth anniversary of Baghdad’s fall marked by huge anti-American protests.
– - Let freedom reign!
April 9th, 2009 at 10:48 amIs this when they throw the flowers at the feet of the soldiers??
April 9th, 2009 at 10:51 amThey burned an effigy of Bush. Heh.
The shoes!! What about the shoes!?
April 9th, 2009 at 10:53 amWait. We were supposed to be treated as welcome liberators, no?
I mean, that’s the reason we went to war, no?
And our presence over the last 6 years has led the majority of Iraqis to a better life, no?
April 9th, 2009 at 10:55 amThe troll will arrive to call us haters, and the Iraqis ungrateful in 3…2…1…
April 9th, 2009 at 10:55 am6th Anniversary of Baghdad’s fall marked by HUGE anti-American protests
Ya think?!
April 9th, 2009 at 10:58 amThis reminds of another country that we were going to “liberate”. Yep, shades of Vietnam. The Vietnamese didn’t much care for us either.
April 9th, 2009 at 10:58 amBring our troops home! Enough is enough!
April 9th, 2009 at 10:59 amZooey Lepidoptera Says:
They burned an effigy of Bush. Heh.
Zooey, I guess it’s a positive sign that they’re [rightly] laying all the blame at the feet of Bush, not Obama.
PEACE
April 9th, 2009 at 10:59 amAlright, just what in the HELL is going on with the recommend?
I click a recommend, and an error message pops up saying that I’ve already rated this item, when in fact I did not.
April 9th, 2009 at 11:01 amAnyone else having this problem?
He was ‘an invasion time president’.
He was ‘the corporation’s president’.
He was ‘the haves and the have-more’s president’.
He was ‘big oil’s president’.
He was ‘the military industrial complex’s president’.
He was ‘a war criminal president’.
He was never my president.
April 9th, 2009 at 11:02 amUncle Ho Says:
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I haven’t, yet. FYI.
April 9th, 2009 at 11:05 amMom — EXACTLY!! :D
Uncle Ho — Constantly. Just refresh the page, and your recommend should be there. It seems about time for TP to be experiencing glitches again.
April 9th, 2009 at 11:06 amThe analogy between Iraq and Vietnam is funny. When you think about our reason for fighting in Vietnam was because we felt if Vietnam fell to communism the rest of southeast Asia would also fall to communism.
Our reason for fighting in Iraq was because if we could establish a democracy in the middle east, the rest of the middle east would fall to democracy.
Which hypocrisy is worse?
April 9th, 2009 at 11:06 amQuite a contrast to the staged rally and toppling of Saddam Hussein’s statue in the same square.
April 9th, 2009 at 11:07 amLooking at it from a conservative point of view, did it ever occur to anyone that maybe, JUST MAYBE, they are protesting and burning the American flag because we are planning to pull out and they want us to stay?
I mean, underneath all that spit and anger and the anti-American slogans, there is a deep love and gratitude for all the democracy and freedom the US has instilled.
Or as Limpbone and Hannity would point out: under the skin of all those Islamic fundamentalists there is am American wanting to get out.
April 9th, 2009 at 11:08 amZooey Lepidoptera Says:
The troll will arrive to call us haters, and the Iraqis ungrateful in 3…2…1…
With the numerous, vile crap that was spewed yesterday from them, I gotta believe they are on some sort of spring break, and will be enforce once they wake up and their moms leave for work.
April 9th, 2009 at 11:08 amWhy didn’t the republicans pay a bunch of Iraquis to erect a Bush statue? You know, like they paid Iraquis to be filmed toppling the Saddam statue?
FOX will ignore this completely. Tea baggers and Obama (non)Gaffes.
Besides, it was “mission accomplished” a couple of times (weren’t there some claiming, shortly after November, that Iraq was “won”?)
April 9th, 2009 at 11:10 amWhat the hell kind of logic is this?
April 9th, 2009 at 11:11 amBut… but… the SURGE WORKED! Weren’t these ingrates TOLD? They’re embarrassing the Manly Surge in front of its friends!
April 9th, 2009 at 11:11 amI can see Hannity,Limpo,and Orielly calling the Iraqi`s` ungrateful.
April 9th, 2009 at 11:12 amwags,
April 9th, 2009 at 11:13 amI think Joe Sixpack was being snarky.
One can look at the state of our country today and easily ask how in the hell do our politicians think they can remake another country. They’re just dumb. Send 500,000 troops to Afghanistan and they still won’t change anything. All they will accomplish is further bloating military industrial complex with our money. Dumb, just plain dumb.
April 9th, 2009 at 11:13 amwags camponotus saundersi Says:
Looking at it from a conservative point of view, did it ever occur to anyone that maybe, JUST MAYBE, they are protesting and burning the American flag because we are planning to pull out and they want us to stay?
What the hell kind of logic is this?
That is PERFECT wingnut logic. What troll of ours would not be PROUD to have thought of that? Spot on.
April 9th, 2009 at 11:13 amI certainly hope so…
April 9th, 2009 at 11:14 am…
a troll the other day:
LordElrond says:
Yes well ‘Obama-Biden’ I’ve had occasion to meet quite a few veterans of Iraq and they have seen combat, been attacked, blown up and every other horror. Their opinion is that the decision to go there was just, the Iraqi people are grateful for our help and that the MSM doesn’t have a frigging clue when it comes to the progress over there.
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April 9th, 2009 at 11:15 amBribe payments must be dwindling – somebody get General Dave to bust open another shipping container of cash.
I hope this re-motivates the Pres. to get our people out of there at a quick and steady pace. And the Iraqis need to figure out for themselves that they’ll need to put on a different kind of show to get us to leave. (not that I agree with that, or even want us there in the first place)
Somebody get them some Hogan’s Heroes on dvd, and maybe they’ll learn that a little subtle subterfuge can go a long way. As long as they do the Anti-thing, it will further convince the hawkish here that we still “have work to do” there.
April 9th, 2009 at 11:18 amSix years ago today, coalition forces defeated Saddam Hussein’s regime and watched the toppling of the dictator’s statue in Firdos Square.
It hasn’t been renamed G.W. Bush Square by popular demand yet?
April 9th, 2009 at 11:27 amMistress Z: thanx :-)
April 9th, 2009 at 11:28 amOh, there’ll be a statue of der Shrub in Baghdad – one of him ducking a pair of flying footwear!!!!!!
April 9th, 2009 at 11:37 amThe Iraqi’s are protesting our occupation of their country because they have had enough .
April 9th, 2009 at 11:41 amIn America , trillions are given to international corporations already paying no taxes and receiving billions in subsidies from your tax dollar , so that their executives can fly around in expensive private jets and receive multi million dollar bonuses !
The Obama administration broadens the rationale for domestic spying , while preventing court cases from proceeding on the topics of wireless wiretapping and extraordinary rendition !
Iraqi’s are just obviously SMARTER than Americans who can be robbed ,tortured , spied upon and sent to war on false premises and killed by the 1000’s without flinching !
US OUT OF NORTH AMERICA
April 9th, 2009 at 11:42 amWavy Gravy
Mission Accomplished
April 9th, 2009 at 11:54 amJust went to Fox News and did a search for any stories on Iraq for today. Not a single story.
That tells so much.
April 9th, 2009 at 12:08 pmHey Joe, haven’t seen you around much.
Man, if only they’d gotten that amusement park up and running. Think of all those protestors as potential customers! A shoe-tossing stand, would really clean up. Give the winners a couple gallons of fresh water as the prize.
April 9th, 2009 at 12:21 pmYes, it has happened to me three times this morning.
April 9th, 2009 at 12:55 pmIt looks like there are more people in the square than there were when the statue came down.
April 9th, 2009 at 1:00 pmWhere are the roses that they are throwing at us ?
April 9th, 2009 at 1:35 pmHmm, does this mean Maliki won’t be giving any of the Bushies the Iraqi Medal of Freedom?
April 9th, 2009 at 2:15 pmSee Bush/Chenney/Obama/Gates/Petraus! This is Democracy! ‘Gringo go Home!’
April 9th, 2009 at 3:16 pm36. stewartjt
As the shape of the area is oval, I say naming it Bush Square would be quite appropriate !
Cheers !
April 9th, 2009 at 8:42 pmDo you not get that this is a peaceful protest by an extremist religious faction which 2 years ago was expressing their dissent with weapons and violence rather than peaceful protests? This protest is a brilliant example of the success which has been achieved in Iraq.
Dave
April 10th, 2009 at 11:30 amZooey, I guess it’s a positive sign that they’re [rightly] laying all the blame at the feet of Bush, not Obama.
And so Obama asks for another $84 billion for the utterly pointless and unwinnable war in Afghanistan.
“How do you like your blue-eyed boy now, Mr. Death?”
Dave
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