Guardian: Hundreds of thousands protested against "US occupiers".

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Huge turnout for anti-US rally

Hundreds of thousands of supporters of the radical Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr took to the streets of two Shia holy cities in Iraq today and protested against "US occupiers".

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BBC News reported that up to 1 million Shias were expected to take to the streets in Najaf.

Yesterday thousands of residents in Baghdad's largest Shia slum, Sadr City, boarded buses and minivans bound for Najaf for today's rally, which was choreographed to mark the fourth anniversary of Baghdad's fall.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,2053176,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=12

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1. Scary. "BBC News reported that up to 1 million Shias were expected to take to the streets in Najaf."

Sure. The insurgency is in its final throes.


What a clusterfuck Prezdent Monkeynutz has gotten the U.S. into...

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2. The war profiteers are as deaf to the hundreds of thousands marching in Iraq as they

are to the hundreds of thousands who have marched here, and to the multi-millions worldwide who have marched against this war, and to the 75% of the American people who oppose this war and want it ended.

Yet it goes on and on and on. We have elections here. The people say their TOP ISSUE OF CONCERN is the war, and try their best to outvote the Bushite-controlled electronic voting machines, to get themselves a more representative Congress, and still the war goes on, and gets juiced with another $100 billion of the peoples' money.

What's wrong with this picture?

I say what's wrong with it--the snag in the works that turns the picture upside down, and throws off all balance and perspective--is the Bushite-controlled voting machines and their 'TRADE SECRET," PROPRIETARY programming code.

The Iraqis don't want war. We don't want war. Why do we still have a war?

If you are going to perpetrate an unjust war, in a democracy--especially one with the Vietnam War in living memory--you have to fix the elections. That's what they did.

It's staring us in the face. We are not allowed the choice of not committing unjust war. The war profiteers--and they are a bipartisan force--now have direct, secret control of the outcome of elections. THAT is why--with 75% of the people against the war--we were only able to achieve a 50/50 Congress. A Congress just short of the numbers needed to end the war.

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3. All Al-Sadr has to do is keep up the protests - Bush said he would leave if asked to?!!!