No Respect

The AP is reporting thousands of Iraqis took to the streets today to protest the new security agreement that allows American troops to remain in their country for three more years.

Followers of a Shiite cleric on Friday stomped on and burned an effigy of President George W. Bush in the same central Baghdad square where Iraqis beat a toppled statue of Saddam Hussein with their sandals five years earlier.

Chanting and waving flags, thousands of Muqtada al-Sadr's followers filled Firdous Square to protest a proposed U.S.-Iraqi security pact that would allow American troops to stay for three more years. The Bush effigy was placed on the same pedestal where U.S. Marines toppled the ousted dictator's statue in one of the iconic images of the 2003 U.S.-led invasion.

Burning Bush effigies? The same square where the Saddam statue was toppled? So ungrateful. Three more years of occupation isn't going to hurt anyone. Our Freedom Bombs and Liberty Bullets have graciously liberated these people, the least they could do is burn Bill Clinton effigies instead of our exalted Leader George Bush. The AP is also reporting some Iraqis were seen giving terrorist fist bumps while chanting "out with Bush."

*Update:

You know when I first read this article I thought the Iraqis were protesting the fact the occupation was coming to an end. I mean, really, what people in their right mind would want a five year occupation to come to an end? I certainly wouldn't.