Sixth anniversary of Baghdad’s fall marked by huge anti-American protests.

[ProSense]

Sixth anniversary of Baghdad’s fall marked by huge anti-American protests.

Six years ago today, coalition forces defeated Saddam Hussein’s regime and watched the toppling of the dictator’s statue in Firdos Square. President Bush called the day “one of the great moments in the history of liberty.” However, today many Iraqis are marking the day with anti-American protests rather than celebrations. “Tens of thousands of followers of anti-American Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr thronged Baghdad” to demand the immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops. Protestors shouted, “Down, down USA” and “No, no occupation,” and burned American flags and an effigy of Bush. The AP notes that the demonstrations also coincided “with an uptick in bombings of Shiite targets around the city.”

[Clio the Leo]

1. Are they throwing tea into the ocean? NT

[JayMusgrove]

2. The sooner Obama gets our troops out of harm's way..

the better.

It's obvious the perfect is the enemy of the good there, the safest is the enemy of the safer.

Get tens of thousands of troops out of there ASAP.... in my opinion.

[dalaigh lllama]

3. very telling that they're still burning the Bush effigy

and not Obama's.

[Vidar]

4. We need to get the hell out of there.

[cwcwmack]

5. asap

it's a money pit. But don't forget about Afghanistan.