Thursday, April 08, 2004

Holy crap -- it's a popular uprising:

Iraqi marchers break through US roadblocks in bid to relieve rebel bastion

BAGHDAD - Thousands of Iraqi sympathisers, both Sunni and Shiite Muslim, forced their way through US military roadblocks in a bid to bring aid from the capital to the besieged Sunni rebel bastion of Fallujah.

Troops in armoured vehicles attempted to stop the convoy of cars and pedestrians from reaching the western town where US marines have met ferocious resistance in a two-day-old offensive against the insurgents.

But the US contingents were overwhelmed as residents of villages west of the capital came to the convoy's assistance, hurling insults and stones at the beleaguered troops.

...Two US Humvees attempted to stop the marchers but were forced to drive off as residents joined the marchers, shouting "Allahu Akbar" (God is greater).

US troops armed with machine guns and backed up by armour again blocked the highway further west, but were forced to let the Iraqis past as they came under a hail of stones.

The cross-community demonstration of support for Fallujah had been organized by Baghdad clerics both Sunni and Shiite....


--AFP

We now have only two choices left: accept defeat or react with brutality.

Damn George W. Bush and his entire administration for getting us into this mess, in a country that had no ability to harm us.

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