400,000 Iraqis sign petition to withdraw US from Iraq within a few hours..

[Terran1212]

Iraq Shiites in campaign for foreign troop pullout
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20050711/wl_mideast_afp/iraqussadrpetition

BAGHDAD (AFP) - Radicals within Iraq's Shiite majority community launched a petition for the withdrawal of US-led troops, which they said was drawing support from across the sectarian divide.

Supporters of firebrand cleric Moqtada Sadr, who led a bloody six-month uprising against the coalition last year, said they were aiming to secure one million signatures inside four days.

"We started this morning and so far we have had a good response, not only from Shiites -- Sunnis and Christians have also been coming to our office to show their support," said Ibrahim al-Jaberi, an official in Sadr's movement.

"We have also received more than 100 calls from Iraqis living abroad in support of our initiative," he said, adding that more than 400,000 people had signed the petition by midday (0800 GMT).









FOX/CNN/ABC/NBC/MSNBC/PBS: But leaving would empower the terrorists!

[Disturbed]

1. Will this demand gain traction?

Does the Bush Regime give damn about what Iraqis want?

[Terran1212]

2. Don't be silly

Democracy in name is alright.

Democracy in action -- more like democracy inaction.

[K-W]

5. They can only have democracy if they do what they are told. EOM

[bigtree]

3. .

[me b zola]

4. Interesting

The first sentence of the story calls the people who began the petition "radical", but the third sentence/paragraph tells a little different story:

~snip~


"We started this morning and so far we have had a good response, not only from Shiites -- Sunnis and Christians have also been coming to our office to show their support," said Ibrahim al-Jaberi, an official in Sadr's movement.

~snip~


It has just occurred to me that perhaps the largest threat of a civil war in Iraq is not as much going to be between ethnic lines, but more along the lines of who supports US presence and those who wish the US and their (our) influence to leave.

[mmonk]

6. bingo

"It has just occurred to me that perhaps the largest threat of a civil war in Iraq is not as much going to be between ethnic lines, but more along the lines of who supports US presence and those who wish the US and their (our) influence to leave."

[HughBeaumont]

7. That's funny . . . .

Like the handful of fat, pasty white, bloodthirsty berzerker, oil-addicted, empire-lusting old men running our country give three pieces of chihuahua droppings about what powerless, brown-skinned people 7,000 miles away think or want.