Fox News: Iraq embassy attack - "Sit-In Planned"

[underpants]

As of Tuesday night, protesters set up tents outside the embassy in the Iraqi capital where they said they intended to stage a sit-in “until American troops leave Iraq and the embassy is closed.” About 100 Marines are being sent to the embassy to bolster security and an Army Apache helicopter flew over the premises and dropped flares in a "show of force", hoping to disburse the crowd, a U.S. defense official told Fox News.

https://www.foxnews.com/world/crowd-shouting-down-usa-attempts-to-storm-us-embassy-in-baghdad-report-says

From The NY Times

[Dennis Donovan]

1. Um, the dudes in the fatigues look more like the "kill-in" types...

On edit: Liz Sly (WaPo) is saying they're setting up tents - maybe this will become a bed-in for peace?


...probably not.

[marble falls]

2. Texas duck hunters?

[Dennis Donovan]

3. Guessing they're not the "sit-in" types, either.

[marble falls]

4. Only if there's nothing flying and there's some bourbon still in the flask.

[Dennis Donovan]

5. I always thought "booze+hunting" was a bad combo

...that's why I quit hunting.

(Disclaimer - I've never been a hunter, only a drunk, at times )

[marble falls]

7. It is, but Texas has a tradition of arms and alcohol culture. Its the only hope we have ...

to improve the gene pool.

[Dennis Donovan]

10. Harry Whittington likely agrees - don't go duck hunting with a drunk Dick Cheney...

[marble falls]

11. I actually met the guy, a real gentleman for a Republican. Cheney wanted an apology ...

from him for getting shot.

[Boomerproud]

12. He actually defended Darth IIRC.

I have never seen a class of people circle the wagons like the 1%.

[maxsolomon]

6. Terminology needs fixing.

"Shiite Militia plans Occupation of US Embassy".

Not a "mob", and flares aren't going to get them out. Maybe killing Shiites when you installed a Shiite government wasn't such a good idea...

[PCIntern]

8. That's about as peaceful as

Lucas McCain was in The Rifleman. He was a peaceful man who spent the entirety of each episode stacking bodies of the men he’d killed.

[malaise]

9. Let's see if they cheer this on the way they cheer on the protesters

in Hong Kong - I won't hold my breath