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Iraq
World antiwar rallies delight Iraq
2003-02-16
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BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Iraq was gloating Sunday over the global outpouring of opposition to a possible U.S.-led war against the country, saying the rallies by millions of people signaled an Iraqi victory and "the defeat and isolation of America."
Don't count your chickens before they're hatched.
"These demonstrations expressed in their spirit, meaning and slogans the decisive Iraqi victory and the defeat and isolation of America," Al-Jumhuriya said in a commentary. Iraq staged its own demonstrations on Saturday, when tens of thousands, many carrying assault rifles and portraits of Saddam Hussein, took to the streets of several cities to pledge their loyalty to the Iraqi leader in the face of U.S. threats to attack the Arab nation.
What?? Peace protesters with assault rifles?
Posted by:Dishman

#2  I can only hope that the Iraqis are wrong with their gloating. But I have to add that by now, it's hoping against hope. It actually borders on denying the obvious : Iraq has really won.
Posted by: Peter   2003-02-16 07:33:35  

#1  Don't worry about the guns - they weren't handed out complete with magazines. For some reason Saddam lined the route with Republican Guardsmen and flatbed-mounted heavy MGs too, but that's just way too much detail to mention.

Saw Ms Dynamite singing about "freedom" in Hyde Park yesterday - surely Baghdad would have been a better stage. Oh, I forget, we don't actually want freedom, just want to talk about it.
Posted by: Bulldog   2003-02-16 06:54:03  

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