Posted on 04/30/2016 8:43:57 AM PDT by dynachrome
As can be seen in the photo (and live webcast below), hundreds of demonstrators occupied the country's parliament. Video from inside the building showed jubilant crowds waving Iraqi flags and shouting "peaceful, peaceful." Supporters of Sadr, whose fighters once controlled swaths of Baghdad and helped defend the capital from ISIS, have been demonstrating for weeks at the gates of the Green Zone, responding to their leader's call to pressure the government to reform.
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I realize Zero Hedge is a blog,but I did not see anything out there yet. please move if needed
There, fixed it.
Another "make sure nothing Republican ever succeeds" accomplishment of the present administration.
Hate to remind you, Obama IS us-created
From purple fingers to this.....nice work, Obama and Hillary. Just as planned.
How long before we see the Huey’s on the embassy roof again?
Iraq must be divided into three ethnic sections. Until
this happens, there will be turmoil!
This is what we got for our $Trillion.
[GWB said they would pay for us for their liberation with their oil money. Have they paid us yet?]
Could this be what Trump was talking about that you cannot bring Western democracy to regions and people that do not have any use for it?
Perhaps another extremist Islamic state but the protesters are Shiite while ISIS is Sunni. They would be just as happy fighting each other as fighting non-Muslims.
Well Let the Good Times Roll!
Let's git-er-done.
Should dispel forever the mistaken notion that a Muslim population is in any way capable of joining the civilized world.
Nice try, but George was the stupid one to go there in the first place.
The delusion was toppling the dictator would result in democracy throughout the middle east.
This delusion led George W. into Iraq. It then led the MSM and Obama to celebrate the “Arab Spring.”
Islam isn’t consistent with democracy. It’s anti-democratic. Once the strong man dictators were displaced, inevitable it’d turn into 1979 Iran.
What is the lesson here that we will not learn?
...and just how much taxpayer funds mas been spent on the mega-US-embassy there?
pictures on twitter of the security/bomb protection walls of the green zone being torn
This ties in to Trump’s excellent foreign policy speech. We cannot spread democracy or waste billions trying to change these people. Saddam was evil, but at least he provided stability and relative peace.
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