Chanting "No! No to terrorism!" and "No! No to America," thousands of supporters of a radical Shiite cleric who once led uprisings against U.S. troops called Saturday for American forces to withdraw from Iraq, staging a massive protest at the same square where - two years ago to the day - protesters pulled down a towering statue of ousted Saddam Hussein.
Compare the protests- which one looks like the ’voice of the people’ to you?
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Considering that Sadr had weeks to prepare, bussed people in, and the population of Bagdad, his was a pretty pathetic showing.
Do you look at every gathering of several thousand people at every disparate protest in the U.S. as "the voice of the people"? Just curious.
The "voice of the people" was the more than 8 million Iraqis who voted on January 30th for a national assembly that is not advocating the imminent withdrawal of U.S. troops.
