White House Tells Press: Huge Anti-American Protest in Iraq Shows 'Progress'

[babylonsister]

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White House Tells Press: Huge Anti-American Protest in Iraq Shows 'Progress'

By E&P Staff

Published: April 09, 2007 4:15 PM ET

NEW YORK A huge anti-American protest swept two cities in Iraq today, but White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe told reporters this only underscores how much "progress" the U.S. is making in that country.

Four years since the fall of Baghad, Iraq "is now a place where people can freely gather and express their opinions, and that was something they could not do under Saddam." Johndrove said, traveling with President Bush to Arizona.

He also noted that Moktada al-Sahr had called for "massive protests-- I'm not sure that we 've seen that, those numbers materialize."

But the Associated Press reported this afternoon: "Tens of thousands of Shiites -- a sea of women in black abayas and men waving Iraqi flags -- marched from Kufa to Najaf on Monday, demanding U.S. forces leave their country on the fourth anniversary of fall of Baghdad. Streets in the capital were silent and empty under a hastily imposed 24-hour driving ban.

"Demonstrators ripped apart American flags and tromped across a Stars and Stripes rug flung on the road between the two holy cities for the huge march."

Johndroe also said: "While we have much more progress ahead of us -- the United States, the coalition and Iraqis have much more to do -- this is a country that has come a long way from the tyranny of Saddam Hussein."

[Prophet 451]

1. That's so Bush

A huge protest is progress because now, they're free to tell you that they hate you (unlike in the USA). Presumably, lack of a protest would also have been progress. War is peace. Ignorance is strength.

[theoldman]

2. Of course it's progress. Before we invaded Iraq the people

did not hate us. Now they hate us a lot. It's all in how you define progress.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

3. They've been using this type of double talk since day 1

I recall Bush and Cheney separately stating that the more our soldiers are attacked in Iraq, the more it shows that we're winning, as it means the enemy is getting desperate.

[Ioo]

4. He has a point...

before us they were able to gather, and then go home and not get blown up by car bombs... now they can!

[TheCowsCameHome]

5. Yeah, nothing like angry mobs to make your spine tingle.

What a warm feeling - like when you pee your pants.

[subterranean]

6. Weren't anti-American protests allowed under Saddam?

[Monkeyman]

7. Don't you just love White House Spin

[texpatriot2004]

8. Mr. Texpat wants to know if that's because they don't have to talk

in "free speech zones?"

[Lobster Martini]

9. What, no "Free Speech Zone?"

Oh, the irony. Protesters in Iraq are a sign of progress, but protesters in America are herded by the Secret Service into "Free Speech Zones" where they are out of sight and kept away from reporters.

[fed-up]

10. which means US is regressing under *co nt

[Ghost in the Machine]

11. Ah. Ahhh. Ahhhhhh. Ahhhhhhhhh. AhhBULLSHIT!! *cough*