Today a million Iraqis marched to end the US occupation. What part of Iraqi freedom can't Bush understand?

Question

And, of course, some general said Iraqis are now free to protest their military occupation. He ignores that a million Iraqis also marched against war BEFORE Bush invaded.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2053175,00.html

So let me get this straight, kvery. If they march against being killed by Americans, they must have been forced to. If they march to get rid of the American occupation, it must be because they are free.

George Orwell would be proud of you.

bereal - "real" Iraqis weren't marching in the street when US Marines pulled Saddam's statue down.

http://newstandardnews.net/content/?action=show_item&itemid=641

AP pro-US propagandist Lauren Frayer, writing safely from the Green Zone in Baghdad, is somehow confident that only "tens of thousands" marched.

Answer 1

I read the reports that the whole of the third infantry is being deployed out among the residents of Baghdad today over the protest and America has declared martial law with a curfew. I don't call that freedom, and the Iraqis don't either.

Answer 2

Well, Longhair, it looks as if you should also be called "tall tales". All the reports I saw on this protest said "tens of thousands" As GW would say, "Your figures are a little fuzzy". Also, check this out::::::::::Ask most Americans if they were aware that Iraqis, by almost a 2-to-1 margin, believe that life today is better than it was under Saddam Hussein, and you’d most likely elicit incredulousness, blank stares or outright laughter. Not because it isn’t true, though. It is. The mainstream media just forgot to mention it. In the past month, two surveys that involved face-to-face interviews with thousands of ordinary Iraqis have been released. While each contained significantly different results, both provided substantial evidence that Iraqis are not nearly as gloomy as Americans have been told to believe... Considering the daily drumbeat of dim news from the cradle of civilization, any reasonable person would expect that ordinary Iraqis rued the day we liberated them. Mainstream media execs defend the tenor of the coverage, reminding us that the news business must report what is new... Reporting news events without context, however, can easily create dangerously false perceptions. The context we do have, though, has been fashioned by the mainstream media to fit journalists’ views of the reality in Iraq. This massaging of the news has had consequences. Following year after year of almost exclusively grim news out of Iraq—even when positive stories such as the 2005 poll were readily available to cover—Americans have now soured on a war they once strongly supported.” —Joel Mowbray Does this tend to put a damper on your apparent enthusiastic welcome of this protest?

Answer 3

article says hundreds of thousands, and the papers i read says tens of thousands. neither of those number are a million. the article also says "Expected" so the number has not reached that number and there is a chance it will not reach that number.

re-do your math.

and did you also notice the ones marching are led by the guy who is killing innocent people and American troops. gee I wonder where their political opinions lie...

So you are saying we should do what the guy who wants to kill and has been killing every one who disagrees with him wants...

yeah good idea there.

As for the second article, wow psyops was involved... what a freaking revelation. So was it a psyops guy with the hammer trying to knock down the statue before the army even arrived? or were they psyops guys with ropes trying to pull the statue down before any soldiers were in the area? because if you recall that's what was happening before the troops even arrived.

and really a great article, it does not even provide any proof or sources except speculation from some one who is opposed to the war anyhow.

Congrats you made another pointless and biased question.

you should congratulate your self.

Answer 4

His low IQ is not letting him believe that Iraqis don't want them there......they want their land free of US occupation !! He is still believing he has acted like a superman for them and made them get rid of saddam(thats wht he is telling the world)........ But Alas those Iraqis are living even miserable life now !! and they hate this evil " Hero" and want him to say Good By to their land !

Answer 5

Does seem to contradict everything Bush has ever said about Iraq and Saddam .
I thought he was protecting the oil pipeline when he gassed those villagers who where tampering with the oil supply .
Provided women for his soldiers to have sex with in prisons .
Hey besides martha stewert how many old women go to prison .

Answer 6

Amazing isn't it... Muqtada al-Sader tells them to march against the US when he is one of those responsible for all the Iraqi deaths.. Media has quite a bit of influence ..... I remember the real Iraqis celebrating in the streets after Saddam fell and then the insurgents came...

Answer 7

President Bush doesn't read the paper, watch the news or like when his subordinates give him bad news. I would guess that he is more oblivious to world events than people think. He lives in some sort of feel-good, 'My plan is working' bubble.

Answer 8

ummm the article says that the BBC said they expected up to 1m doesnt say how many but says hundreds of thousands.. no way to know how many but poitn is
its al Sadr that rallied these people. Its the radical group protesting.
Remember thats still only a small fraction of the population..

Answer 9

Good Ole Public Schooling, now 5-7 thousand equals Millions...

Answer 10

If we leave then we lose the POWER. Our government doesn't want another country in the middle east turned into an Islamic state, they want to create a secular, U.S. friendly government.