Sensible Erection | Anti-terrorism demonstrations in Baghdad

Wednesday, 10 December 2003

Anti-terrorism demonstrations in Baghdad

quote [ The rallies today proved to be a major success. I didn't expect anything even close to this. It was probably the largest demonstration in Baghdad for months. It wasn't just against terrorism. It was against Arab media, against the interference of neighbouring countries, against dictatorships, against Wahhabism, against oppression, and of course against the Ba'ath and Saddam. ]

We started at Al-Fatih square in front of the Iraqi national theatre at 10 am. IP were all over the place. At 12 pm people started marching towards Fardus square through Karradah. All political parties represented in the GC participated. But the other parties, organizations, unions, tribal leaders, clerics, school children, college students, and typical everyday Iraqis made up most of the crowd. Al-Jazeera estimated the size of the crowd as over ten thousand people.

You can find a list of some of the parties that we noticed there at Omar's blog. At one point it struck me that our many differences as an Iraqi people meant nothing. Here we were all together shouting in different languages the same slogans "NO NO to terrorism, YES YES for peace".

http://iraqthemodel.blogspot.com/2003_12_01_iraqthemodel_archive.html#107107057634357719

[by wrffr@3:49pmGMT] [+5 Informative]

Comments

shortstop4313 said @ 3:57pm GMT on 10th Dec
Somehow, I just don't believe this...

aktung said @ 4:16pm GMT on 10th Dec
why?

The Vapour said @ 4:57pm GMT on 10th Dec
because toppling of sadamm's statue was staged. I will hold my mod for a while.

shortstop4313 said @ 11:34pm GMT on 10th Dec
Exactly... Staged and overhyped.

wrffr said @ 5:15am GMT on 11th Dec
At first, I wasn't even going to bother responding to this because I thought everyone knew that the fraudulently misleading indymedia/informationclearinghouse photo at the core of the claim that the statue being pulled down was staged had been completely debunked, but then Longhair showed up to remind me that this _is_ SE where every situation that shows the US in a positive light is _obviously_ a staged event created by the propaganda masters and fed to the ignorant sheep who don't know any better and anything that shows the US in a negative light is pure, unvarnished truth that somehow managed to slip past the censors.

Anyway, the "evidence" that the statue toppling was staged was a photo that was clearly taken some time after the event, _not_ while it was actually happening and many people clearly seen in frames of video of the live event are no longer there.

Here's a quick debunking that I found with a minute or two of googling and there are better ones out there. I would have bookmarked them if I thought that people actually believed that crap.

wrffr said @ 5:16am GMT on 11th Dec
This one has more details.

wrffr said @ 5:21am GMT on 11th Dec
And this one has even more. I can't believe that people still believe that crap. Heh.

Longhair said @ 10:32am GMT on 11th Dec
Well I guess THAT proves it!

Geez

bigdummy said @ 4:02pm GMT on 10th Dec
I'm sure there are middle-of-the-road types in Iraq, who would go to this kind of a rally. There are probably just as many who would rather be out shooting RPG's at american GI's and not just because they miss Saddam. . .

Sir_Prometheus said @ 4:07pm GMT on 10th Dec
The Iraqis deicover Care Bear Power.

Gigant0r said @ 5:21pm GMT on 10th Dec
So i'm looking at this blog here which is run by some friend of the iraqthemodel, and he has a bunch of pictures of the demonstration and i'm clicking through them saying hooray for iraq or whatever but then I come across this picture and for the god damn life of me I can't figure out how the hell that black kid with the baseball cap got in there. I think that's the first picture of a black person in iraq who isn't a soldier that I've seen. How did he get there? Am I in some kind of time warp??

Longhair said @ 10:02pm GMT on 10th Dec [Score:1 Funny]
Photoshop?

Longhair said @ 10:06pm GMT on 10th Dec [Score:1 Funny]
Could be it was staged as the pulling down the saddam statue was.

Looks like more propaganda for US consumption.

shortstop4313 said @ 11:44pm GMT on 10th Dec
Can someone please find some independant confirmation of this?

housewares said @ 5:29am GMT on 11th Dec
You people are so goddamn lazy. It was all over Reuters yesterday. If you can't be bothered to get off your ass and look at the wires there's no reason anyone should help you

And this post should be in the politics category.

shortstop4313 said @ 5:08pm GMT on 11th Dec
I looked for it on Reuters, CNN, BBC and such yesterday, not a thing was said about it.

numike said @ 12:30pm GMT on 11th Dec
as long as the iraq's are being paid in hard foreign currency they will toe the line once the US dollars are gone................
and remember history tells us we wont be in Iraq much longer
"Beyond the Euphrates began for us the land of mirage and danger, the sands where one helplessly sank, and the roads which ended in nothing. The slightest reversal would have resulted in a jolt to our prestige giving rise to all kinds of catastrophe; the problem was not only to conquer but to conquer again and again, perpetually; our forces would be drained off in the attempt."

Emperor Hadrian AD 117-138