Sadr rallying Iraqis to demonstrate against government

[lovuian]

http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=341289

The Sadr movement is leading opposition to what many Iraqis feel is a new regime of oppression - with some of the same attributes as Saddam's.

Thousands of people are joining the protest marches and "sit-ins" in Baghdad as I write these lines. They are mainly responding to a call by leading anti-occupation cleric Moqtada al-Sadr in the wake of fierce clashes between the Sadr movement supporters and many thousands of occupation-backed Iraqi forces who began a major military campaign in Basra last night. Reports are coming in that many non-combatants have been killed or injured in the clashes. The Green Zone was shelled for the second day running and the government declared a curfew in several southern cities in addition to Basra.

An urgent message Yuesday morning from an Iraqi trade union activist in Basra referred to resistance to the government forces in several Basra neighbourhoods and "savage" attacks against the resistors. The message stressed that "security plan began in the same barbaric manner that the criminal Saddam had used". This is a reference to the March 1991 uprising that began in Basra and which was brutally crushed by Saddam's forces.
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I'm feeling like Iraq is falling apart and the irony is now we are the Oppressors not Saddam

[Hippo_Tron]

1. Sadr's government would probably be more oppressive

But we're kidding ourselves if we think that we've turned Iraq into a free society.

[physioex]

2. And kidding ourselves furthur..

In thinking the "surge" is working. Wait till those house of cards come crashing....

[malaise]

3. All I know is that Cheney, McSameasBush, Lieberman

and Graham arrived in Iraq and since then at least 50 more Iraqis have been slaughtered by the puppet government.

Get the fuck out of Iraq. Bushco will never get that oil.