[ScaniaBoy]

As a group of Iraqi students told me, "Isn't it terrible to see that Western elites came here to demonstrate in support of Saddam against the Coalition, and when we took the streets to demonstrate against the Saddam war crimes, they didn't show up?"

It is too early to say, but could this be the first sign that GW Bush will be another Ronald Reagan; "just a dumb US President" who happens to trust the eternal thruths about human freedom, and succeeds where all his detractors have failed so miserably?

[keats5]

Wonderful post. Thanks.

[Travis McGee]

Go Iraqis! Seize your freedom, and never let it go!

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for the post. Of course the left wing mediots of the world will either spike this story or down play it.

"The BBC and CNN downplayed the events, while al-Jazeera mislead the Arab world about them. The jihad network spent more editorial energy undermining the objectives and the credibility of the event than reporting it.

"The anchors, to the disbelief of many viewers in the Arab world, said the marchers were "expressing views against what they call terrorism" (emphasis added). Al-Jazeera evidently reserves to itself the definition of terrorism. Since September 11, the network has systematically added "what they call terrorism" to each sentence reporting terror attacks by al-Qaeda, other jihadist factions and the Saddam. In sum, that is not terrorism, but a Western view of what is legitimate violence. But al-Jazeera's sour surprise with the first steps of popular resistance to jihadism in Baghdad took the network by surprise. As it was airing the segment, its anchors lost linguistic balance and added this time: "The demonstrators are criticizing what they call violence!"

Hence, the editors in Qatar were trapped ideologically. They couldn't even accept the idea that Arabs could be marching against violence, so they described tens of massacres and bombings as "alleged violence," (ma yusamma bil unf). The al-Jazeera debacle was probably the most important victory of the demonstration.

[VOA]

bump

[Cobra64]

Tom Daschle, "I am saddened. Deeply saddened."

[thinktwice]

We need factories, we need peace, no fascists, no fanatics

In other words, Iraqis don't want any one-world liberal democrats such as Ted Kennedy.

[DarthMaulrulesok]

I never thought I would write this, but WAY TO GO, IRAQIS!