Obama’s Big Lie Meets Iraqi Resistance (“We Are All Ticking Time Bombs”-Iman of largest Shia Mosque)

[stockholmer]

http://firedoglake.com/2011/04/10/obama%e2%80%99s-big-lie-meets-iraqi-resistance/

"Obama promised that US troops would be out of Iraq by the end of 2009 – well actually he played semantics and said “combat troops” but American voters believed that his election signaled the end of our occupation of Iraq. Now we’re in 2011 and not only have we not left but Obama is angling to keep US forces in Iraq past the December 2011 deadline for the removal of all US forces.

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What if the U.S. forces and others stay in our beloved lands?’ Muqtada al-Sadr issued in a statement read out in Baghdad’s Mawal Square Saturday, eight years to the day since U.S. troops helped oust Saddam Hussein.

‘Will you be silent? Will you overlook this?’‘No, no America. No, no America,’ the tens of thousands of protesters shouted in reply.

And there was more:..........................................."

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links to relevant articles:

On anniversary of Saddam's fall, Iraq's Sadr issues warning on US presence

The Imam of the largest Shia mosque in Baghdad also spoke, saying:

“We are all ticking time bombs”

http://my.firedoglake.com/markfromireland/2011/04/09/we-are-all-ticking-time-bombs/

[dennis4868]

1. Combat troop are out of Iraq....

why are people lying about what Obama has done....the crazy left keeps getting more crazy!

[stockholmer]

2. sorry, but that is simply dead wrong, the US still has 47,000+ troops there,plus a huge amount

of military contractors, and they're planning on doubling the size of what is already the largest embassy in the world.

Semantical name-changing from 'combat' to 'support' troops doesn't fly.

The war machine isn't going anywhere near 'leaving Iraq'.