http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/10/najaf-protests/

http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/najaf3.jpg

I need to get into the Iraqi flag selling business!

No, you need to get into the American flag business. Out of patriotism? No. The American flag is a consumable (burn it, tear it, walk on it and throw it away) so you get repeat sales. Most other flags, except maybe the Israeli flag, tend to hang around a long time which limits repeat sales.

A PETA protest in front of a Spiral Ham store which tied up traffic for miles but gave me the opportunity to roll down the windows of my HD Diesel pickup and unload on a bunch of clueless moonbats trying to put a small businessman out of business on the one day of the year he counts on to feed his family. The nice thing was, as soon as I stood up, so did others stuck in the traffic. It was the best present the benevolent bunny could have given me.

TheBigOldDog on April 11, 2007 at 9:21 AM

Love ham, but really, spiral ham is kinda tacky, Wonder Bread tacky if you know what I mean….;^)

Of course they’re aware and they couldn’t care less. Its the Sense of Entitlement combined with a deeply held belief that infidel lives are cheap.

Enrique on April 11, 2007 at 10:31 AM

Classic example of would have been nice to thought of this earlier. Say early 2003.

People tend not to like being occupied. Well, we may say, are we not a lot better than Saddam. Doesn’t matter, still resent us as occupiers. (I am not defending this POV, merely an observation).

I wonder if they are conciously aware that the only reason they can even stage a protest is because the US granted them that right through force of arms and at the cost of many lives.

Of course they’re aware and they couldn’t care less. Its the Sense of Entitlement combined with a deeply held belief that infidel lives are cheap.

How did Saddam handle protests against his government?

Bless your heart. So, what did the Easter Bunny bring you?

A PETA protest in front of a Spiral Ham store which tied up traffic for miles but gave me the opportunity to roll down the windows of my HD Diesel pickup and unload on a bunch of clueless moonbats trying to put a small businessman out of business on the one day of the year he counts on to feed his family. The nice thing was, as soon as I stood up, so did others stuck in the traffic. It was the best present the benevolent bunny could have given me.

misinformation about 2 soldiers in the middle of war thousands of miles of away with scores of people in the information chain?

Bless your heart. So, what did the Easter Bunny bring you?

Pelosi, Lantos may be interested in diplomatic trip to Iran

I’m feeling stupid. If there were a lot more people protesting the U.S. being in iraq, isn’t that a bad thing?? Why do we want the crowd to be larger?? (Am I on the right web site??)

Lothar on April 10, 2007 at 10:06 PM

Don’t think anyone wants the crowd to be larger, just don’t like the info being uh, managed. Similar vein: Congress begins today to look into the Pat Tillman and Jessica Lynch debacles. Almost choked on my orange juice–guy reading the news: “blah, blah, blah…investigating why this misinformation was so widely disseminated.”

Is this a trick question? Lord.

Around 3,00,000 [sic] Shias have left Sadr City to travel to Najaf for the mass demonstration

http://www.ibnlive.com/news/alsadr-calls-for-antius-protests/37981-2.html

Was there 3 million people protesting?

Hundreds of Thousands of Iraqis Protest U.S. & Call For Withdrawal
Hundreds of thousands of Shiites are staging a massive anti-U.S. demonstration in the holy city of Najaf to call for the withdrawal of US troops. Shiites from around Iraq have traveled to Najaf to take part in the protest to mark the fourth anniversary of the fall of Baghdad. The Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr urged Iraqis to stop cooperating with U.S. forces.

Where there hundreds of thousands?

BAGHDAD, April 9 — Tens of thousands of protesters loyal to Moktada al-Sadr, the Shiite cleric, took to the streets of the holy city of Najaf on Monday in an extraordinarily disciplined rally to demand an end to the American military presence in Iraq, burning American flags and chanting “Death to America!”

Where there tens of thousands there?

Oh forget it, let’s focus a whole post on a misidentified photo and the blogger fight between the left and right that ensued…Please. Let’s get serious.

askheaves on April 11, 2007 at 1:25 AM

With respect, what else would you call it?

Gateway Pundit had already posted that march photo on his blog:
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2007/04/again-al-sadrs-protest-numbers.html

Besides AP’s semantics on photos the bottom line is the protests were a bust and al-Sadr is losing his influence on the mass of Shia.

They must have one hell of a flag budget.

askheaves on April 10, 2007 at 11:44 PM

ITM has the lowdown on their flag “budget” They borrow a Ba’athist tactic of shaking down small merchants for “contributions”
He also estimates the crowd at no more than 10,000.

“Viva La Isurgents?”

This is just an example of the sloppy writing on this blog. So much of it relies upon some sort of “insider” preknoweldge. It’s hard to tell what’s a joke, what’s real, what the initials are. etc

VinceP1974 on April 10, 2007 at 10:09 PM

Just be patient Vince, it’s all good here, we ALL make mistakes, especially me, hang in there………

still i’d say that there’s a lot of reasons a lot of shi’ites would join a protest against the occupation apart from loyalty to sadr.

jummy

And tell me again why Sadr was given a reprieve, when our guys had him up against a wall…so close?

I think this particular street protest means a lot, since what we’re looking for in it is not a broad indicator of Iraqi mood, but rather the relative strength enjoyed by Mookie at this point.

a4g on April 10, 2007 at 11:20 PM

true. still i’d say that there’s a lot of reasons a lot of shi’ites would join a protest against the occupation apart from loyalty to sadr.

I think this particular street protest means a lot, since what we’re looking for in it is not a broad indicator of Iraqi mood, but rather the relative strength enjoyed by Mookie at this point.

As to your point regarding camera angle– fair enough, in an objective world. But I’ve seen too many shots framed coincidentally in accordance to the editorial bias of the presenters to not be at least a little bit cynical. Now, if the caption had been “Stunning Disappointment For Firebrand Cleric”…