Well, this is certainly ironic

Tens of thousands of freedom loving Iraqis that liberated march through Basra calling for democracy and free elections.

This isn't to say that I support those masses. The marchers are Shi'ites and showing their support for their most revered cleric, Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani. If there were elections held today in Iraq, that means the Shi'ite would gain pretty much all the power, which would piss off the Kurds and Sunnis, and then there would be a civil war, the Kurds already have their own army so they would surely break away and declare the statehood of Kurdistan, which would start a war with Turkey, etc. You know, all that fun stuff that the Bush administration should have given thought to before soldiers were marched across the Kuwaiti border.