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"Give Iraq back to the Iraqis."

See, it's signs like this that make me scratch my head and wonder how informed these people are. Is not the full governance of Iraq being turned over to Iraqis at the end of this month? Are they not having free and open elections next year? If non-Iraqis are there for conquest in imperialization, where are our spoils? Puzzling.

They only told what they are told to believe. They are useful idiots. The Soviets also had a word to describe leftists in the West who did their bidding...but I won't use it here in mixed company.

I would assume they mean, by those protest signs, every single American soldier and civilian out of Iraq now. (Can't have anything in the way of al Qaeda, Sadr or the Fedayeen Saddam taking over now, can we?)

The person that wrote this, IMHO, should be hung by South Korean authorities. Idiots! :

"An Appeal by 365 Korean Organizations to the Iraqi Group Holding a Korean National (Translation by OhmyNews) We appeal for the release of the Korean national Kim Seon Il. Today the Korean people were overcome with shock at the news the Korean Kim Seon Il has been kidnapped in Iraq. His seizure and the threat against the life of this private citizen is already a source of unspeakable sadness for his family and the Korean people. This sadness and shock is the same for the many Koreans who have opposed the United States' unjust invasion and the deployment of Korean troops to Iraq. The Korean people are well aware of the fact that the US invaded Iraq for domination and oil, and not for the freedom and peace of the Iraqi people. We know also that the US occupation of Iraq has denied the Iraqi people their sovereignty and that there have been widespread human rights abuses by US forces there, leading to Iraqi pain and loss of life. For this reason we have done all that is humanly possible to prevent the deployment of Korean troops, as they will in no way contribute to the peace and security of the Iraqi people. The kidnapping and threatening a private citizen with death, however, will not contribute to Iraqi peace. The Iraqi people are right to resist the US's unjust invasion, occupation, and carnage. Nevertheless, kidnapping and threatening a private citizen with death cannot be justified. Doing so will only lead to a vicious cycle of blood and revenge. Again we make an earnest appeal. Please make your claims known through dialogue and release Kim Seon Il to his family as he is of no relation to government policy. 21 June 2004 Seoul, Korea People's Action Against the Dispatch of Korean Combat Troops to Iraq "