Who can blame these poor people given the size and duration of the atrocity of shock and awe forward to now. That's a lot of years of trauma.
So the average Iraqi has very little and they are following the Egyptian and Tunisian lead. The comment has been made that Saddam would have shot every single protester dead. Sitting in my comfortable middle class bed in white America, who the hell am I to comment, but I will.
That is still a speculation. Yes, Saddam would not have gone easily. There is a critical mass, where people cannot tolerate the status quo. It is point of no return. That type of momentum can be suppressed but it can't be erased. Also one does not know what kind of material support outside sources might or might not provide. The point is we can't second guess, reality progresses from the present forward, not from a what if forward.
CS Monitor: Iraqis stage 'day of rage' despite government lockdown
The "day of rage" protests rocked other Iraqi cities as well, as demonstrators burned or tried to storm government buildings from the southern port of Basra to the northern cities of Mosul and Huwaijah, where at least five protesters were shot dead by security forces.
...the fortress-like green zone, a mini-city housing the Iraqi government and the huge US embassy, was further sealed off with new concrete barriers.
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