Iraqi Lawmakers Reject Occupation

On Tuesday, without note in the U.S. media, more than half of the members of Iraq's parliament rejected the continuing occupation of their country. 144 lawmakers signed onto a legislative petition calling on the United States to set a timetable for withdrawal, according to Nassar Al-Rubaie, a spokesman for the Al Sadr movement, the nationalist Shia group that sponsored the petition.

http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/51624/

Why is everyone there named Al? Is everyone here named Al one of them. Are states  with Al in them (cALifornia, ALabama) secretely muslim? What did AL Sharpton do in the dessert while his followers were worshiping the golden cALf? What the hell really happened at the ALamo? The world is getting increasingly strange. ALien?