US Troops tearing down clerics pictures in Fardus Square

[DoYouEverWonder]

Sorry mods: Saw this on CNN just now, it hasn't hit the wires yet.

CNN showing video of US Troops in Fardus Square, Baghdad tearing down pictures of Shiite Muslim cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.

Today is the one year anniversary of the toppling of Saddam's statue in the same square.

Today is also Good Friday. God help us all.

[0007]

1. Are pictures being replaced with junior and girlfriend?


Life is sweet - Life is good
Ah, I love you bubba

[The Land of the Free]

8. LOL

Great picture. Sadly enough, I have to ask the question. Is it real?

[DoYouEverWonder]

9. No, it's photoshopped

by DU poster MoPaul.

However, there are real pics of W and the King holding hands.

[DoYouEverWonder]

2. CNN also reporting

that an order has gone out to tear down all pictures of Sadr in Baghdad.

Another great day for freedom and democracy.

[Mikimouse]

5. That should certainly calm things down...

but, seriously, after listening to the garbage phone calls this morning on C-Span, I am beginning to convince my self that an uprising is exactly what the PNACers want. Then they can actually rationalize their way into razing the entire country. Just like one of the bright lights suggested this morning (stopped just short of saying that we should nuke the areas that are rebelling.)

[yltlatl]

13. One thing's for sure

It would be a lot easier to get all that oil out if it weren't for all those pesky Iraqis. How dare they assume that they have human rights and a right to self determination when American strategic interests are at stake?

[leftchick]

3. Photo of Pics....

Posters of Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr are affixed to a sculpture symbolizing a new Iraq (news - web sites), erected on the plinth where Saddam's statue once stood in a Baghdad square April 9, 2004. U.S. Army soldiers tore down the images later in the day. REUTERS/Chris Helgren

[ClintonTyree]

4. Winning the hearts and minds..............

of the Iraqi people. They'll surely trust us with their future now, correct?

[BiggJawn]

6. Why don't they just drape American flags over the posters?

Like with So-Dumb's statue?

Would have the same effect.

The Brits are right. the Coalition need to stop acting like Conquerers and start acting like Helpers.
But it's probably too late for that.

[booksenkatz]

7. Love that smell of empty symbolism in the a.m.!

Can't eliminate the real fella, so let's go draw moustaches on his photos! Woo-hoo! High fives all round, etc.

[DoYouEverWonder]

10. NY Times reporting story now, here's a pic & a link

Soldiers removed posters of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr that were hanging in Firdos Square in Baghdad where Saddam Hussein's statue was pulled down a year ago today.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/09/international/middleeast/09WARQ.html

[saigon68]

11. That picture will be on Al Jazeera

Mark my words on that

[54anickel]

12. He's branded Shrub the enemy and calling for US withdrawal or face

a revolution.

From the slide show at http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/040409/photos_wl_me_afp/040409111710_jvhuhmr7_photo0

#4 of 234 now, but they keep changing. I can't seem to post it here.

Iraqi Shiite Muslims perform the Friday midday prayer in Baghdad's Shiite neighborhood of Sadr City. Outlawed Shiite Muslim radical leader Moqtada Sadr branded US President George W. Bush (news - web sites) an 'enemy' and told him to withdraw his troops from Iraq (news - web sites) or face a revolution.(AFP/Ahmad Al-Rubaye)