Residents rally in protest against the U.S. military presence in the Shaab neighborhood in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, May 17, 2007.More than 200 Iraqis protested against U.S. and Iraqi military raids in their neighborhood.
(AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
As protests go, this is a small one for Iraq. I wish I could find a better picture of the sign in the background, since they went to so much trouble to write it in a foreign language (English) so that Americans could read it. The only words I can read for sure are "disapprove" and "American" and "inside". The caption says they are protesting military raids, I think most people in the world at large would call it "home invasion" - and that's what they called it when two Iraq war veterans did it in Virginia Beach a couple of years back.
I wonder when (if ever) Americans will get this message they are trying to send. I wonder if America politicians (who have gotten the message) will stop ignoring what the Iraqi people and the American people want - for US troops to get out of Iraq. This occupation is already four years old, and there are no signs that the American politicians will ever listen to the people and what they want.
It seems that the bushies are determined to show the Iraqi people what "freedom and democracy" are no matter what the majority of the population wants or feels about it. Of course, I have said all along that the bushies are only bringing people the freedom of the grave and the democracy of death.
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