Hey georgie hows that winning hearts and minds thingy going these days

[madokie]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070409/ts_nm/iraq_dc

Thousands of Iraqis stream to anti-U.S. protest By Khaled Farhan



NAJAF, Iraq (Reuters) - Fiery Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's call for a big anti-U.S. protest on Monday was answered by thousands of Iraqis who flocked to the southern holy city of Najaf.

Sadr, who blames the U.S.-led invasion for Iraq's unrelenting violence, issued a statement on Sunday urging Iraqis to protest on the fourth anniversary of the day U.S. forces swept into central Baghdad.

"In order to end the occupation, you will go out and demonstrate," said Sadr, who had been keeping a low profile in the last few weeks.

The U.S. military says Sadr, who is popular among Iraq's urban Shi'ite Muslim poor, is in neighboring Iran. His aides say the cleric is in Iraq and have denied suggestions he fled to Iran to escape a security crackdown in Baghdad.

[Olney Blue]

1. Haven't heard the phrase "winning hearts and minds" for some time.....

[Redstone]

2. Didn't even manage to get 'em by the balls, did he? You remember that old saying:

"Get 'em by the balls and their hearts and minds will follow." As fucked-up and simplistic as that statement was, he hasn't even managed to to that.

Have we ever had a President who was a worse failure than Little Georgie Shitforbrains?

I don't think we have.

Redstone

[madokie]

3. yes I do remember Ralph Steadman's 'toons back in the watergate days

a 'toon tricky dick with a big assed hand grabbing him by the gonads and the words when you have 'em by the balls their hearts and minds will follow. a classic no doubt