# Where are the Iraqi protestors?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-the-iraqi-protestors/164053>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 25, 2003, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-the-iraqi-protestors/164053 "2003-03-25T16:46:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![TGWATY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5e925/32.png) [@TGWATY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TGWATY)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-the-iraqi-protestors/164053/1 "2003-03-25T16:46:32Z")

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This is a sort of a rhetorical question, to bring attention to an embarrassing fact any anti-war folks here. I’ve been searching the web and have not been able to find any anti-war sites by Iraqis. Doing a search on “Iraqi protesters” only got me pro-war Iraqis who were protesting the UN!

Local Iraqis interviewed on TV here in Kansas City were in favor of the effort to oust Saddam and wished it could have been done sooner.

Still, I figure there must be some anti-war Iraqis out there. Please share a link if you have it. I am interested in what they might have to say. (Pacificists who are opposed to all forms of war don’t count since there is nothing significant about their perspective _qua_ Iraqi.)

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**Author:** ![kniz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@kniz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kniz)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-the-iraqi-protestors/164053/2 "2003-03-25T17:13:31Z")

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The anti-war Iraqis that live in the U.S. most likely belong to the anti-war groups that you are familar with already. Why would they form their own group, when they can be VIPs in the larger anti-war groups?

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**Author:** ![MinkMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minkman/32/19170_2.png) [@MinkMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MinkMan)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-the-iraqi-protestors/164053/3 "2003-03-25T18:03:32Z")

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Although they apparently get questioned by the FBI if they speak out:

[http://www.npr.org/news/specials/wardiaries/aseel/index.html](http://www.npr.org/news/specials/wardiaries/aseel/index.html)