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04/09/2004 Archived Entry: "Liberation..."
Liberation...
People of Iraq, you are free... except if you want to visit public places.
Where there once was a freedom statue, which replaced Saddam Hussein's toppled bronze likeness, there now stands a monument to a country torn apart by political rivalry.A green banner of the Shia flutters from the summit of Fardous Square's freedom statue, and from around its base posters from the Communist Party and the Iraqi Women's Movement jostle for space. Glowering portraits of Muqtada Sadr hang from the top of the sculpture. The quote on the portrait reads: "We will never accept humiliations or insults from anyone." A few days after these portraits were put up, Sadr's Army of Mehdi killed seven American soldiers in Sadr City, a sprawling Shia slum of two million people.
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US soldiers are now sealing off the square which they had come to "liberate" a year ago.
Replies: somebody speaks up.
well, we are no longer permited to gather in public in this country anymore, why should iraqis have more freedome than we do? ill tell you why, they have ak47's and RPG's... as much as i hate the NRA for political reasons, i sure wish i was allowed to own a gun. why do democrats have to be so right on every issue but gun controll (well on paper anyway, most dont live up to their own beliefs, if they did i would vote for them without feeling sick about it)
Posted by justin @ 04/09/2004 10:08 AM NY
