Boylan said: "This is the right to assemble, the right to free speech - they didn't have that under the former regime. This is progress, there's no two ways about it."
An Iraqi lawmaker saw things differently than the good colonel: "The enemy that is occupying our country is now targeting the dignity of the Iraqi people," said lawmaker Nassar al-Rubaie, head of al-Sadr's bloc in parliament. "After four years of occupation, we have hundreds of thousands of people dead and wounded." A senior official in al-Sadr's organization in Najaf, Salah al-Obaydi, called the rally a "call for liberation."
"We're hoping that by next year's anniversary, we will be an independent and liberated Iraq with full sovereignty," he said.
So it goes. Just another day in paradise.
Wow, a precocious child, is he. So stupid, and, not yet a General. Impressive.
ReplyDeleteBoylan is wise. Freedom of Speech is among the liberties that seperates true democracies like Iraq from failed regimes like Russia. ^_^
ReplyDeleteThere was an Iranian Revolutionary Guard general that just got back from a trip to Russia. He was supposed to be on this UN mandated no travel list. (So I read, anyway.)
ReplyDeleteWhat's going on here?
The Russians have sold them that missile defense system, that seems to be there now. Supposed to be a good system. The Russians are acting like enablers, to stick it to us I quess, but it sure seems shortsighted to me.You don't have to play games just for something to.
The Iranians are awfully cocky. Everything could blow. I wish I was a fly on the wall at the White House. Then I might at last know a little something.
This situation seems fraught with many a danger, to me. Iraq may all of a sudden seems like a side show.
Well, you got to admit, it's one of the most colorful mussie demos that's come along. Red, white, and black, kind of brings a tear to the eye.
ReplyDeleteAnd no car bombs, either.
> said lawmaker Nassar al-Rubaie, head of al-Sadr's bloc in parliament.
ReplyDeleteIt's too bad that the US spokesman couldn't tell the truth: that's not Iraq out there stamping on our flag, it's the enemy. It's a single evil group led by al-Sadr. As long as we don't let ourselves be manipulated by propaganda images like this, we will win.
All for the Red , White, and Black, Old Gory!
ReplyDeleteHugh Fitzgerald At His Best
ReplyDeleteGood writer, I think, whether he's right or wrong, is the question.
At Google freedom of speech is on The Long March Backwards
ReplyDeletewu, Just so YOU know, those are the people we are empowering, those are the liberated, those are the people we are providing Security for.
ReplyDeleteThey are not the enemy.
You've told US that hundreds of times. Them's the people of Iraq.
The Shia have caused only 20% of US casualties, in Iraq, that makes them US allies.
Ain't it just Grand!
Love 'em or Leave 'em
5-10,000 Sadr supporters does not make a Shi'a majority.
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