Why is there no 'Arab Spring' in Iraq and Afghanistan?

[grahamhgreen]

I think it's because we are there killing children and blowing stuff up.

In fact, had we never gone in, they would most likely be having their own, organic revolutions already.

Can we please GTFO now?

Signed,

Sick of the BS wars that are destroying our country, and theirs.

[tekisui]

1. There have been demonstrations in Iraq.

[drpepper67]

2. I don't think there would be any uprising in Iraq if Saddam were still in power.

I mean, come on. He had his son in law killed. I also think the freedom other Arabs feel to rise up is in part because of what happened in Iraq.

I think there is no "Arab Spring" in Iraq because there is no single dictator or monarchy to overthrow. Plus I think if you wanted to kill someone in Iraq, you'd have done it by now.

[Javaman]

3. They did, but we bombed them until they stopped.

sarcasm aside.

There are protests currently being staged in Iraq, but sadly they aren't reported here.

Read Asian Times or Al Jezera.

[sabrina 1]

4. Iraqis DO have a movement and did join the Arab Spring

protests. But in Feb when they started their peaceful protests, 29 of them were shot and killed and hundreds were rounded up and sent to prison. Then our puppet government banned protests. They were not asking to topple the government either, just for some normal things they need and do not have, such as jobs, which have been given to foreign 'contractors' and for their country to be unoccupied. They also wanted the US bases to be removed from their soil.

Their movement was very similar to both Egypt's and Tunisia's. When the US ambassador was asked why the government had ordered the shootign of protestors, the response was something like 'he doesn't usually behave this way'.

The movement is stil alive but it gets zero coverage here of course.

Afghanistan also has a peace movement, but NATO does not talk to them. The Afghans have been protesting in large numbers for years, especially each time their civilians are killed by drones.