Iraqi Protesters Oust Appointed Governor

Demonstrators Defy U.S. Occupation With Demand for an Election

By Rajiv Chandrasekaran
Washington Post Foreign Service
Friday, December 12, 2003; Page A39

HILLA, Iraq, Dec. 11 -- The demonstrators converged on the provincial governor's office on Sunday with banners, sleeping mats, cooking pots and a simple demand: Iskander Jawad Witwit should quit.

After three days and nights of continuous protests, Witwit did just that. But the demonstrators have refused to budge.

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Yup...everything's just so hunkydorrie in Iraq. The locals love us. Ja sure...you betcha. Time to impeach the idiot who put us there.