Iraqi security forces issued a statement today on the eve of planned protests in the capital city of Baghdad, warning that the protest is “unauthorized” and subsequently illegal, and threatening to deal with anyone armed as a “terrorist threat.”
This follows statements earlier in the week by Prime Minister Hayder Abadi’s office, insisting that the war on terror is an “historic responsibility,” and that protesters should leave them alone to focus on the war. His office has made similar statements in advance of other recent protests.
Baghdad has faced major Friday protests off and on for months, with demonstrators seeking major reforms including the replacement of the current cabinet with technocrats as a way to try to get a handle on the nation’s corruption woes.
Abadi made an effort to nominate such a cabinet months ago, but parliament refused to vote on it, and in the face of protests, the whole matter was simply dropped. These previous protests also served as a pretext to add more troops to the Green Zone to keep protesters out, which has added to unrest in the country as security across the populated parts of Baghdad has been all but nonexistent.
Kinda like the way things are done in the US.
I’ve noticed that Rick. The government (Obama) is taking away more and more guns from people who want to use them for peaceful purposes and to maintain their 2nd. amendment rights. It’s getting to the point where they are going to take away all the AR-15’s that good Americans own to hunt deer with. And it’s getting to the point that the old joke about having to bury your guns in your potatoe patch, isn’t just a joke anymore. I think Obama wants to place a limit of something like 50 guns per American and that’s because he’s just plain uppity!
The whole marketing campaign for the Iraq War was to ‘bring democracy and overthrow a brutal dictator.”
Since Iraq has become an American colony with rotating thousands of troops and the biggest US embassy on the planet, the government there:
1) Bans political demonstrations and other free speech activities
2) Imprisons and tortures ethnicities it doesn’t like
3) Is hopelessly mired in corruption and graft
Meet the new boss…same as the old boss…