Saturday, April 09, 2005

This will not be on the front pages of US newspapers tomorrow: "Tens of thousands of supporters of a militant Shiite cleric filled central Baghdad's streets today and demanded that American soldiers go home, marking the second anniversary of Baghdad's fall with shouts of "No, no to Satan!" To the west of the capital, 5,000 protesters issue similar demands in the Sunni Triangle city of Ramadi, reflecting a growing impatience with the U.S.-led occupation and the slow pace of returning control to an infant Iraqi government." (I just saw what the Washington Post had to say about this. It simply attributed these massive demonstrations to "two clerics". Two, not three, and not four). Get out the journalism awards, NOW.