This Can't Be Good

Maybe I'll sleep in on April 9.

Radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr made a scathing attack on the United States in a statement issued Friday, blaming it for Iraq's woes and calling for a mass demonstration April 9 to mark the fourth anniversary of Baghdad's fall.

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"I renew my call for the occupier (the United States) to leave our land," he said in the statement, a copy of which was obtained by The Associated Press. "The departure of the occupier will mean stability for Iraq, victory for Islam and peace and defeat for terrorism and infidels."

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"Four years on and Iraq is still without water, electricity, fuel, security, safety and, furthermore, it is in the middle of sedition," he said in the statement, which is dated March 25 but was only issued Friday.

"As if this was not enough, the occupier also isolated Iraq from the Arab and Muslim worlds, so much so that all foreign nations have ceased to care about an Iraq lying in ruin," it added.

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"You, oppressed people of Iraq, let the entire world hear your voice that you reject occupation, destruction and terrorism," he said in calling for the April 9 demonstration.

"Fly Iraqi flags atop homes, apartment buildings and government departments to show the sovereignty and independence of Iraq, and that you reject the presence of American flags and those of other nations occupying our beloved Iraq. Keep them there until they leave our land," he said.

Comments

[frenchdm]

How is this possible? Just yesterday, Joe Lieberman said al-Sadr had fled the country. It was one of the major signs of progress being made by the "surge." So, yet again another sign of progress evaporates in less than a day.

[pansypoo]

so, the iraqis will hate us more again, instead of other iraqqis.

just in time for summer!