Anderson Cooper blog: Sadr City today was a mass of white shrouds

[DeepModem Mom]

CNN: Friday, August 04, 2006
'These men have nothing to lose'


(CNN)

As we watched a feed of today's pro-Hezbollah rally come in from Sadr City, Baghdad, I had to wonder: Did those young men dressed in white shrouds to demonstrate their willingness to die for Hezbollah really mean it?...

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One of the Arabic-speaking producers in our bureau in Baghdad was standing next to me as I watched the feed. I turned to him and asked him what he thought. His answer was a categorical yes. "These men have nothing to lose," he said. "Their fervor is their sustenance."

The constant suicide bombings in Iraq are proof people are willing to die for their cause....The white shroud is a powerful symbol. Its message is one of purification through the ultimate sacrifice.

The crowd in Sadr City today was a mass of white. A mass of passionate men expressing their support for Hezbollah and Moqtada al Sadr, who use violence as a way of effecting the changes they say their region needs....Could they really believe death is the only way to better their lot?

Obviously, many do.

http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/anderson.cooper.360/blog/

[Oversea Visitor]

1. Do you not know

How hard life is over there.
bush created a hell for them.
You think they thank you.
You think they love you.

You think when they give up they thinking of 70 virgins
Nah more like I give may the biggest screw you I can think off for screwing up my life,

What is so difficult to understand all this.
You live in your bubbles they live in hell

Racheal Corrie went over see things
Make her so brave she stood in front of bulldozer.
Palestinain knows they just run you over
She dont
So she not around today.

Bubbles nice but reality is a bitch.

[FairVotes4all]

4. So true...

Why do we have Bubble-boy georgie as prez anyway?

[Oversea Visitor]

5. Haha that little shrimp of a born loser

:rofl:

Geee you heard about wesorryworld.com
A website for Americans telling world sorry when bush got reelected in 2004 again.

I called it gut feel, the human instinct, that little thing that bug us when we feel thing not right.

Well, see they were right in feeling very depress very sorry.
Just like animals can detect coming natural disaster
Me think human should learn to trust that feeling of right move or wrong move.
DUer has that instinct too.
And they also know as long as bush in WH it will get worse and not better.
And guess what my guts say they right
Hmmm damn colbert already use the gut thingy :rofl:

[FlavaKreemSnak]

2. How can America get people not to want to fight back?

It seems like calling everybody who fights back a terrorist and trying to kill them just makes more people want to fight back, and makes it more dangerous for the troops, and in Lebanon for the Israeli troops.

I don't think that they have figured out how to keep people from fighting back, but is there a way they could keep them from wanting to? Because stopping people from fighting back against Israel and America would be the same thing as stopping terrorism.

[Oversea Visitor]

6. Haha

Me got bigger guns bombs tanks and plane
Me keep what me want
You not get west bank back
So now fight already 50 years what dont there little guys ever give up
Hmmm need fight another 50 years maybe little guys go away.

I mean see the Roman they damn powerful take many land. See Might make right :rofl:
Hmmm or maybe keep fighting keep dying
West Bank and other occupied territory worth price for
perpetual war and miserly for both side :rofl:

Do not want give peace a chance :rofl:
So not give back land.
Good way give War many chance

See War goood got winner
IN war there are not winner all losers
Winner is who lose less :rofl:
Da da da , Born loser :rofl:
So see Isreal decider here want to be winner for peace or loser for perpetual war :rofl:
Their call really :rofl:
They make their bed they go sleep in it
US want to sleep in same bed well go ahead
Dont make different to fact all these just plain loser mentality.

[Doctor_J]

9. It's worked for them here

Here in the US they are able to steal elections, imprison innocent people, take away rights and basic neccessities, and feed us 24/7 propaganda through the State Media Machine, and no one is able to stop them. They think they can do it overseas too, but the people there are too tough and resourceful to just give up like we have.

[rodeodance]

10. mostly they belong to tribles if the leader no-then NO-ifsay march they

march. ect ect. there is not the 'individualism' we see in most western countries.

[FlavaKreemSnak]

13. Are the leaders in those countries really popular?

Some of the things that you read make it sound like they are not so popular, but then that is usually in articles that don't agree with America about it, so you wonder if there is a bias. But then you think how much money Americans have to pay to keep the leaders in power, so you have to wonder, if they love the leaders so much, why do the leaders need so much money?

[alfredo]

3. That's what happens when all hope is taken away.

Thank you bush and the other heartless capitalist who have pushed these people into this situation.

[DeepModem Mom]

7. a.m. kick

[rodeodance]

8. coffee time kick

[oasis]

11. No violence reported at the rally?

[oasis]

12. No violence reported at the rally?