The Plebes! Dear God, the Plebes! They rattle the ground with their marching and distract the international media for five minutes with their thunderous whining.
Tens of thousands of followers of anti-American Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr thronged Baghdad on Thursday to mark the sixth anniversary of the city’s fall to U.S. troops, and to demand they leave immediately.
“Down, down USA,” the demonstrators chanted as a Ali al-Marwani, a Sadrist official, denounced the U.S. occupation of Iraq that began with the fall of Baghdad on April 9, 2003, and the toppling of Saddam Hussein’s statue in Firdos Square.
Oh, OUR bad al-Sadr. We didn’t mean to make your political career possible or anything. Please forgive us.
