Suck on This Day in Sadr City

Here is how Iraqis celebrated Suck on This Day:

Thousands of Iraqis filled the streets of Baghdad’s Sadr City neighborhood this afternoon to demonstrate against a long-term United States presence in Iraq, the first significant anti-American rally in the massive Shiite slum in more than two years.

As American helicopters hovered overhead, young and old men and even children flowed out of their weekly Friday prayers and began burning American flags and chanting “no, no to America” and “yes, yes to independence.”

The U.S. invasion of Iraq removed a Sunni dictatorship and replaced it with a Shi’ite dominated popularly elected puppet regime. The Shi’ites of Sadr City, who suffered immeasurably under Saddam, would be the prime beneficiaries of our invasion. But they have nevertheless decided that they no longer want to suck on this.