Iraqis To America: Get Out!

C Goodman

Tens of thousands of Iraqis took to the streets of Najaf, Iraq today demanding that the U.S. get out of their country. The angry protests came on the four year anniversary of U.S. forces toppling the regime of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein.

The protesters in Najaf were rallying in support of powerful anti-American cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, who wants the U.S. to set a timetable for withdrawl of forces from the war-torn country.

Some of Monday's protesters burned and ripped apart American flags and tromped across a Stars and Stripes rug.


Now every American -- Republican and Democrat, hawk and dove, Senators McCain and Lieberman -- should ask, why are our men and women dying for these people? They don't care about us, they don't care about freedom, they don't care about peace. They want us out, so maybe the Bush administration should listen for once.