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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 03:04 PM
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Radical Iraqi cleric's follower calls for million-strong anti-US demo
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20050325/wl_mideast_afp/iraqusshiitessadr&cid=1514&ncid=1473

KUFA, Iraq (AFP) - A follower of radical Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr called for a million-strong demonstration in Iraq (news - web sites) to demand a timetable for the withdrawal of US troops.


"Passing laws that contradict Islam will be tantamount to treason to the marajaiya (religious authority) and not insisting on a timetable for an end to the occupation is even greater treason," said Sheikh Nasser al-Saedi in his sermon at the Grand Mosque in Kufa, south of Baghdad.


"Last Friday I called for a million-strong demonstration to demand a timetable for the end of the occupation and I repeat this demand again and I call on all political forces to take part in this demonstration."

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ProgressiveConn Donating Member (820 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 03:13 PM
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1. Wow pretty restrained.
"called for a million-strong demonstration in Iraq to demand a timetable for the withdrawal of US troops."

I wonder how Bush will react to a million + people protesting our troops being there... Doubt the troops would let that many people congregate.
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Emillereid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 03:21 PM
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2. He'll probably just call it a 'focus group.' He'll insist
that a million people in the street are just a mob, and that the real people of Iraq just love us. Of course when people demonstrate against governments we don't like, it's called the blossoming of democracy.
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Selteri Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 03:38 PM
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4. Bush might
Declare them terrorists and have the all arrested/shot

Have a convient terrorist action..

suck his thumb then call them rabble rousers.
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Selteri Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 03:37 PM
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3. The million unmurdered march?
Hehe, sorry, bad joke, I don't see how this is so bad though from how the article reads.
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DavidDvorkin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 04:06 PM
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5. No, Million Mehdi March
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olddad56 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 05:05 PM
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6. I don't think it would be wise for 1 million Iraqi to bunch up...
like that. One US Bomb could kill all of them.
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leesa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 09:22 PM
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12. You have a point, but I think bombing a huge protest group might even
penetrate the tiny tiny brains of Republicans as not a good thing. Then again, Faux, CNN and MSRNC could sell it as progress.
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seg4527 Donating Member (851 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 05:28 PM
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7. i wondered what happened to Sadr
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jazzjunkysue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 08:13 PM
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8. Where do we send money? I'll make signs.
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Robbien Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 08:25 PM
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10. The enemy of one's enemy is not necessarily a friend.
al Sadr is scary. The fact that he does not like the Bush Regime occupation does not make him a good guy.
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Forever Free Donating Member (542 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 09:14 PM
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11. EXACTLY
Al-Sadr represents the antithesis of liberal values...by supporting radical Islamic fundamentalist hate and squelching the rights of women and dissidents.
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bpilgrim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 08:16 PM
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9. 41 must wanna kick 43's a$$ as bad as we do by now - n/t
peace
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jazzjunkysue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 09:42 PM
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13. It's called payback. Very buddhist. Karma's a bitch.
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Rockerdem Donating Member (706 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 09:57 PM
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14. This is the end of the occupation. A million zealots will overrun us . .
We dont stand a chance now. "Retreeeattttt."
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