Good Thing We Liberated Them & Gave Them Freedom

[DR_GONZO]

Whatever happened to all those roses?

Iraqi Shiites chant 'Death to Israel'
By MURTADA FARAJ,
Associated Press Writer
8/04/06

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Hundreds of thousands of Shiites chanting "Death to Israel" and "Death to America" marched through the streets of Baghdad's biggest Shiite district Friday in a massive show of support for Hezbollah in its battle against Israel.

No violence was reported during the rally in Sadr City. But at least 26 people were killed elsewhere in the country, most of them in a car bombing and gunbattle in Mosul in the north.

The demonstration was the biggest in the Middle East in support of Hezbollah since Israel launched its attacks against the guerrillas in Lebanon on July 12. The protest was organized by radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, whose political movement built around the Mahdi Army militia has been modeled after Hezbollah.

Al-Sadr summoned followers from throughout the Shiite heartland of southern
Iraq to converge on Baghdad for the rally but he himself did not attend.

Demonstrators, wearing white shrouds symbolizing willingness to die for Hezbollah, waved the guerrillas' yellow banner and chanted slogans in support of their leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, which has attained a cult status in the Arab world for its defiance of Israeli military power.

"Allah, Allah, give victory to Hassan Nasrallah," the crowd chanted.

"Mahdi Army and Hezbollah are one, let them confront us if they dare," the predominantly male crowd shouted, waving the flags of Hezbollah, Lebanon and Iraq. Many walked with umbrellas in the searing afternoon sun. Volunteers sprayed them with water.

"I am wearing the shroud and I am ready to meet martyrdom," said Mohammed Khalaf, 35, owner of a clothes shop in the southern city of Amarah.

Al-Sadr followers painted U.S. and Israeli flags on the main road leading to the rally site, and demonstrators stepped on them — a gesture of contempt in Iraq. Alongside the painted flags was written: "These are the terrorists."

Protesters set fire to American and Israeli flags, as well as effigies of
President George W. Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, showing the men with Dracula teeth. "Saddam and Bush, Two Faces of One Coin" was scrawled on Bush's effigy.

Iraqi government television said the Defense Ministry had approved the demonstration, a sign of the public anger over Israel's offensive in Lebanon and of al-Sadr's stature as a major player in Iraqi politics.

"I consider my participation in this rally a religious duty. I am proud to join this crowd and I am ready to die for the sake of Lebanon," said Khazim al-Ibadi, 40, a government employee from Hillah.

Although the rally was about Hezbollah, it was also a show of strength by al-Sadr, and many worried that the presence of so many Shiite demonstrators — most of them from the Mahdi Army — would add to tensions in the city that has seen almost daily clashes between Shiite and Sunni extremists.

The sectarian violence escalated after the Feb. 22 bombing of a Shiite shrine in Samarra unleashed a wave of reprisal attacks on Sunnis nationwide.

In the latest violence Friday, at least 13 people were killed when Iraqi security forces fought street gunbattles with suspected insurgents in Mosul after a suicide car bomber blew up a police patrol, provincial police commander Maj. Gen. Withiq al-Hamdani said.

He said the suicide bombing killed four policemen and eight insurgents were killed in the subsequent gunbattle.

Also Friday, another suicide bomber killed three people on a soccer field in Hatra town near Mosul. An engineer was shot dead and an unidentified body, showing signs of torture, was found in western Baghdad.

The U.S. military said in a statement that coalition forces killed at least three "terrorists" during an air strike and multiple raids southeast of Baghdad on Thursday.

Separately. gunmen shot and killed four people and wounded eight from a Shiite family late Thursday in Dujail, 80 kilometers (50 miles) north of Baghdad, police Lt. Hussam al-Dujeili, said.

On Thursday, Gen. John Abizaid, the top U.S. commander in the Middle East, told a Senate committee in Washington that sectarian violence in Iraq "is probably as bad as I have seen it" and that if the spiral continued the country "could move toward civil war."

[1964]

every year in America, women joyfully dispose of their unwanted children. It's a modified term for infant murder called abortions. SInce the start of the Iraq war, American women aborted about 7 millions fetuses.

Having the freedom to kill a baby is such a groovy thing huh!

Well atleast we know those babies had a say in their death.
They were where they wanted to be.
They knew it was part of their commitment to the job.

LIKE US SOLDIERS....

except Babies cannot talk.

[DelawareDistrict]

Murder is a very specific legal term. Abortion does not meet the criteria. Nice try. Iraq would have been much better off under Saddam.

[LHardy]

Don't bother 1964.
The leftists live in an inverted reality.
They are not worth your efforts.

Del is right it is not murder to rip unwanted babies from the wombs of women.
It is torture. Torture for the women and the fetus. Dogs gather more support from the left then human fetuses.
Try leaving your dog outside without a bowl of water and see if you not arrested, charged and condemned in your community for animal cruelty.

Drown an unwanted litter of kittens. I like to call it feral cat reduction. See if you do not land in jail if you are caught.
Animals, to the left, are more important then are human babies. Unless of coarse the human babies happen to be fighting in or are causalities of a war. Wars they will never support because they themselves are to afraid to die to maintain their rights. Hell they are just afraid to die.

They would rather fight fellow Americans then foreign invaders, illegal immigrants, or terrorists from foreign lands. They would rather roll over like the Frenchmen and the Spanish to Muslim aggressors, like dogs on their backs begging not to be beaten.(Yes leftists are dogs)

They would rather ignore the statements of the enemy and find ways to sympathize with the enemy. Then stand and fight.
However, for the left in this country the enemy is the Republican Party and George W. Bush.

When the fight comes back to this shore, maybe we can line them up as human shields, something they pride themselves on, and let them take the first volleys. Leaving the fighting to real Americans, who are more than proud to fight for the rights of these hapless, hopeless, bottom feeders.

[DR_GONZO]

Why does one have to be on the left if he/she opposes anything. Why does one have to be on the right to agree on anything? Unless you're Miss Cleo, or someone actually says they are a lib or con, what gives you the right to label anyone? As a citizen of United States, I can honestly say I pledge allegiance to neither party or their twisted beliefs. America deserves better.

When the fight comes back to this shore, maybe we can line them up as human shields, something they pride themselves on, and let them take the first volleys. Leaving the fighting to real Americans, who are more than proud to fight for the rights of these hapless, hopeless, bottom feeders.

Real Americans would be the first in line to fight. History has proven time and time again, chicken hawks put others in front to do the fighting for them. Thank you for once again reinforcing that fact.

[DelawareDistrict]

There are no foreign invaders attacking our country. The enemy you speak of is the creation of an agenda driven by interventionist foreign policy. You speak of the statements of the "enemy" but ignore the reality of the average person living in the mid-east. A reality of violence, death and constant fear.

Residents of Baghdad are systematically being pushed out of the city. Some families are waking up to find a Klashnikov bullet and a letter in an envelope with the words “Leave your area or else.” The culprits behind these attacks and threats are Sadr’s followers- Mahdi Army. It’s general knowledge, although no one dares say it out loud. In the last month we’ve had two different families staying with us in our house, after having to leave their neighborhoods due to death threats and attacks. It’s not just Sunnis- it’s Shia, Arabs, Kurds- most of the middle-class areas are being targeted by militias.

Other areas are being overrun by armed Islamists. The Americans have absolutely no control in these areas. Or maybe they simply don’t want to control the areas because when there’s a clash between Sadr’s militia and another militia in a residential neighborhood, they surround the area and watch things happen.

Since the beginning of July, the men in our area have been patrolling the streets. Some of them patrol the rooftops and others sit quietly by the homemade road blocks we have on the major roads leading into the area. You cannot in any way rely on Americans or the government. You can only hope your family and friends will remain alive- not safe, not secure- just alive. That’s good enough.

For me, June marked the first month I don’t dare leave the house without a hijab, or headscarf. I don’t wear a hijab usually, but it’s no longer possible to drive around Baghdad without one. It’s just not a good idea. (Take note that when I say ‘drive’ I actually mean ‘sit in the back seat of the car’- I haven’t driven for the longest time.) Going around bare-headed in a car or in the street also puts the family members with you in danger. You risk hearing something you don’t want to hear and then the father or the brother or cousin or uncle can’t just sit by and let it happen. I haven’t driven for the longest time. If you’re a female, you risk being attacked.

I look at my older clothes- the jeans and t-shirts and colorful skirts- and it’s like I’m studying a wardrobe from another country, another lifetime. There was a time, a couple of years ago, when you could more or less wear what you wanted if you weren’t going to a public place. If you were going to a friends or relatives house, you could wear trousers and a shirt, or jeans, something you wouldn’t ordinarily wear. We don’t do that anymore because there’s always that risk of getting stopped in the car and checked by one militia or another.

Why don't the Americans just go home? They've done enough damage and we hear talk of how things will fall apart in Iraq if they 'cut and run', but the fact is that they aren't doing anything right now. How much worse can it get? People are being killed in the streets and in their own homes- what's being done about it? Nothing. It's convenient for them- Iraqis can kill each other and they can sit by and watch the bloodshed- unless they want to join in with murder and rape.

Buses, planes and taxis leaving the country for Syria and Jordan are booked solid until the end of the summer. People are picking up and leaving en masse and most of them are planning to remain outside of the country. Life here has become unbearable because it's no longer a 'life' like people live abroad. It's simply a matter of survival, making it from one day to the next in one piece and coping with the loss of loved ones and friends- friends like T.

more reality here

[1964]

Mike ... you are a piece of work. You haven't the guts to go to Iran, or Saudi Arabia and get a serious reality check. You and your lot of sensationist Anarchists need to take over the country... and wave your white flags while smoking your camels.... we'd see many changes!