Occupation is not liberation
In the neighbouring city of Nasiriyah, Shiite groups sought to exploit the broad and growing anger over the US occupation by organising a protest. Variously estimated at between 2,000 and 20,000, the demonstrators marched through the streets chanting ‘No No Saddam, No No United States’ and ‘Yes, Yes for Freedom, Yes, Yes for Islam’. Placards read: ‘No one represents us in the conference’.
The World Socialist Website provides an excellent overview of the the U.S's sham democracy and growing Iraqi resistance the occupation.
originally posted by zagg
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Tens of thousands of Iraqis hit the streets of Baghdad on Friday to protest against what they regard as a U.S.-led foreign occupation.
Posted by: zagg | April 18, 2003 11:35 AM
Isn't it great that the Iraqi people now have the right to protest without being locked in underground cells and their family members murdered?
Posted by: gg | April 19, 2003 2:52 AM
What a thoughtless remark. Iraqis, many still without electricity and running water, are under a dusk to dawn curfew from an occupying military power. The fact that protests arise under such conditions does not mean these people are "free". It means they are still a desperate, suffering and angry people. They are well aware of the U.S. record of torture at Guantanamo and Bagram, and murder of entire Iraqi families by U.S. troops at the Diyala bridge. You should be too.
see also: Iraq Liberation: Don't Make Me Laugh.
Posted by: xowie | April 19, 2003 11:01 AM