Large crowds of Shiites on Today denounced the security pact Baghdad is negotiating with Washington for a long-term US military presence in violence-wracked Iraq.In Baghdad's Sadr City, the bastion of cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, Shiite men, women and children shouted anti-American slogans as they demonstrated against the security deal after the weekly Friday prayers.
Protests against the security agreement reverberated across all Shiite regions of Iraq. In the central town of Kufa, protesters chanted anti-US and anti-Israel slogans. Devotees shouted,
No to America! No to Israel! We reject signing the agreement with the occupation.
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Thanks for the visit. And thanks for the like and great post. I'm so glad to hear They don't want us there with our big permanent foot print. Now, if only our press would make something of this. Will we her about it? Anybody want to wager?
Like, link, close but no cigar. Too bad I can't type.
ahh, I see they are still welcoming us with open arms..
Nice point, Indicted Plagiarist! Well founded. Why not change your nick name to Ironic Plagiarist?
Have to put it somewhere: Award to the Nothing is Off the Table bloggers.
As I have long argued, Bush's capricious invasion and occupation of Iraq has deflected, diluted and dispersed our allies' support of America's mandated retaliation against Talibanistan.
Thus, in Australia, we have NSW Greens MP Sylvia Hale saying,
"I think it's time for the West to learn the lessons of Vietnam... And that is that you cannot impose regimes upon the countries and think that by pure military might that you will be able to have your way and institute the sort of government that you might want..
Such policies have failed in Iraq, as they are failing in Afghanistan. This is not Australia's war, we have no reason to have soldiers there."
Sidney Morning Herald
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