man Iraqis are pissed off that the US shut down their paper!

[maggrwaggr]

check out these photos on CNN.com!

Yup, just a few random terrorists and insurgents. NOT!







caption for the one above: "The man leading the sermon accused U.S. civilian administrator Paul Bremer of following in the footsteps of Saddam Hussein by shutting down the paper."

[aquart]

1. Did we send no one with brains to that place?

[maddezmom]

2. it's kinda like if bushco* shut down AirAmerica

not sure we'd get the crowds, but we'd be pissed.

[MrSlayer]

3. I guess it's OK for our press to print lies but not theirs.

That paper was printing blatant anti-American propaganda. Saying the car bomb terrorist attacks were actually U.S. Missiles and other things like that. Quite unlike our own media that prints lies about us having an elected President, WMDs and 9/11 "terrorists". It's O.K. for us but not for them.

[KG]

4. can't be - i was told iraq has more freedom of speech now

than at anytime in their history! :eyes:

[maddezmom]

5. yeah, I saw that post...did you ever get a link? n/t

[KG]

8. nope, just a repeat of that groundless assertion.

:eyes:

[maddezmom]

9. hmmm

not a surprise :eyes:

[Union Thug]

6. and they have freedom to...

organize labor unions too... right, uh-uh. yep.

[KG]

12. but, besides that, everythings great in iraq.

oy.

[realdeal22k]

7. Which paper? What did they publish?

Any idea as to what was shut down?

[maddezmom]

11. here's a link:

~snip~
Unfortunately, the Iraqi people recently saw another version of press freedom when Bremer ordered US troops to shut down a newspaper run by supporters of Muqtada al-Sadr. The militant Shia cleric has been preaching that Americans are behind the attacks on Iraqi civilians and condemning the interim constitution as a "terrorist law." So far, al-Sadr has refrained from calling on his supporters to join the armed resistance, but many here are predicting that closing down the newspaper - a nonviolent means of resisting the occupation - was just the push he needed. But then, recruiting for the resistance has always been a specialty of the presidential envoy to Iraq: Bremer's first act after being tapped by Bush was to fire 400,000 Iraqi soldiers, refuse to give them their rightful pensions, but allow them to hold on to their weapons - in case they needed them later.

While US soldiers were padlocking the door of the newspaper's office, I found myself at what I thought would be an oasis of pro-Americanism, the Baghdad Soft Drinks Company. On May 1 this bottling plant will start producing one of the most powerful icons of American culture: Pepsi-Cola. I figured that if there was anyone left in Baghdad willing to defend the Americans, it would be Hamid Jassim Khamis, the Baghdad Soft Drinks Company's managing director. I was wrong.

"All the trouble in Iraq is because of Bremer," Khamis told me, flanked by a line-up of 30 Pepsi and 7-Up bottles. "He didn't listen to Iraqis. He doesn't know anything about Iraq. He destroyed the country and tried to rebuild it again, and now we are in chaos."
~snip~
more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1184993,00.html

[realdeal22k]

13. Educate me about Muqtada al-Sadr

Does/did he support Saddamn? Attacks on non-combatants? Democratic control of Iraq?

Where exactly does Muqtada al-Sadr stand on future Iraq democracy?

[goddess40]

10. Link to on line paper

http://english.aljazeera.net/HomePage

I believe it was shut down because they were anti-bush and anti-invasion.

[realdeal22k]

14. What does Muqtada al-Sadr and aljazeera have in common?

Nothing I hope because all feedback I get from aljazeera is not positive.