The Fall of Baghdad

Are you sure this is a good idea?

Next Wednesday is the fifth anniversary of the Fall of Baghdad. The insane president of the United States will go on tv next Wednesday and tell six impossible lies just clearing his throat before he reads another ridiculous fairy tale off the TelePrompTer screen and spends twenty minutes angrily pounding the lectern about progress in Iraq.

He has done this many, many times of course, but this time it may fall a little flat with the audience. This time he will have a very hard act to follow. Hours before he wakes up that morning Muqtada al-Sadr will have reminded the entire world that he can snap his fingers and a million people will march wherever he tells them too. TPM has the story.

Yes. al Sadr announced his plan in advance today, and Dubya and his gang will have a week to brood about it. And because of course Iraq is a democracy now as Dubya never tires of telling everyone, democratic demonstrations are protected by the Iraqi constitution. Hoist by his own rigged petard. The "government" in Iraq says no problem, we're all democratic here. As long as it is peaceful, they stressed, though what they or even the US military would do or even *could* do if a MILLION Iraqis decided to turn un-peaceful all at once was not described.

Sadr was also quite clear on what his million people will be thinking as they march peacefully along:

"The time has come to express your rejections and raise your voices loud against the unjust occupier and enemy of nations and humanity, and against the horrible massacres committed by the occupier against our honourable people," said a statement released by Sadr's office in the holy city of Najaf.

I can't wait to see how hard Dubya is going to have to buff that turd to call it a shining apple of free democracy in action, a demonstration of what wonderful things the US can accomplish with a three trillion dollar orgy of destruction and death, and a testament to the wisdom and greatness of George W. Bush.

We'll see on Wednesday I guess.


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