YANQUI GO HOME
Demonstrators demand U.S. to leave Iraq

From the AP via the Houston Chronicle:

Tens of thousands of supporters of a militant Shiite cleric filled central Baghdad's streets today and demanded that American soldiers go home, marking the second anniversary of Baghdad's fall with shouts of "No, no to Satan!"

To the west of the capital, 5,000 protesters issue similar demands in the Sunni Triangle city of Ramadi, reflecting a growing impatience with the U.S.-led occupation and the slow pace of returning control to an infant Iraqi government.

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Protesters burned the U.S. flag as well as cardboard cutouts of Bush and Saddam. Three effigies representing Saddam, Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair — all handcuffed and dressed in red Iraqi prison jumpsuits that signified they had been condemned to death — were placed on a pedestal, then symbolically toppled like the Saddam statue two years before.

Others acted out reports of prison abuse at the hands of American soldiers. Photos released last year showing U.S. soldiers piling naked inmates in a pyramid at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison have tarnished the military's reputation both here and around the world.

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Well, it sounds like they're glad Saddam Hussein is gone, but that they equate President Bush with the former bloody dictator. It's pretty clear: they don't want us there; they don't think we've brought them freedom; they don't love us, and want us out right now. Of course, they're right. The invasion was illegal, sold to the US public with lies, and is completely imperialistic in nature. Bush is a war criminal on a scale that probably dwarfs that of the dictator he has replaced. The US really ought to pull out right now, but that's not at all likely--see the post above for the major reason why.

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