Shiites Call for U.S. to Leave Iraq

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6544552...

Monday April 9, 2007 9:31 PM


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By LAUREN FRAYER

Associated Press Writer

BAGHDAD (AP) - Tens of thousands of Shiites - a sea of women in black abayas and men waving Iraqi flags - rallied Monday to demand that U.S. forces leave their country. Some ripped apart American flags and tromped across a Stars and Stripes rug.

The protesters marched about three miles between the holy cities of Kufa and Najaf to mark the fourth anniversary of the fall of Baghdad. In the capital, streets were silent and empty under a hastily imposed 24-hour driving ban.

Radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr ordered up the march as a show of strength not only to Washington but to Iraq's establishment Shiite ayatollahs as well.

Al-Sadr, who disappointed followers hoping he might appear after months in seclusion, has pounded his anti-American theme in a series of written statements. The most recent came on Sunday, when he called on his Mahdi Army militia to redouble efforts to expel American forces and for the police and army to join the struggle against ``your archenemy.''

[LSK]

1. oh the irony of this fucked up situation

1st the Sunnis hated us for invading and throwing them out of power and they were the original insurgents.

Now the Shiites hate us because we are the only thing preventing them from "winning" the civil war with the Sunnis.

What a fucked up mess.

[wildhorses]

2. we can't win for losing

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3. what was the mission?

[wildhorses]

4. damned if i know--

whatever happened to osama bin laden

[LSK]

5. oh, I remember what this is all about now

http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=hal

[wildhorses]

6. show me the money!!!

buncha fucktards