100,000 Anti-U.S. Marchers In Baghdad - Democratic Underground

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Sat May-28-11 10:21 PM
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100,000 Anti-U.S. Marchers In Baghdad

On Thursday, 5/26 an estimated 100,000 people marched peacefully in Baghdad and thousands more marched elsewhere in Iraq, demanding the U.S. military and its contractors leave the nation on 12/31/11 as America's SOFA agreement requires.

The U.S. still has 48,000 soldiers and thousands of contractors there. Earlier this week U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates strongly stated the U.S. military should keep 10,000 soldiers there and presumably some large number of contractors, to maintain order and to help protect Iraq from Iran.

By this large scale peace protest, many Iraqis are saying no to the U.S.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-iraq-sadr-rally-20110527,0,5349911.story

posted with permission from: http://sane-ramblings.blogspot.com/2011/05/100000-anti-us-marchers-in-baghdad.html

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Sun May-29-11 01:29 AM
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1. From the LATimes link...

"Sadr's followers, many of them members of his now-inactive Mahdi Army militia, turned out Thursday from Baghdad and cities across the south. They said proudly that they had fought the U.S. military in the past and were awaiting the call from their leader to fight again."

Well that's good news! :sarcasm:

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Sun May-29-11 10:09 AM
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2. By this large scale peace protest, many Iraqis are saying no to the U.S.

If I were in Baghdad, I'd be marching too.

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Sun May-29-11 11:47 AM
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3. This can't be true!

Edited on Sun May-29-11 11:48 AM by bvar22

Obama ended the Iraq War and brought the troops home!

It says so, right there on The LIST!

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