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Comments on: Because Things Weren’t Complicated Enough https://whynow.dumka.us/2006/11/30/because-things-werent-complicated-enough/ On-line Opinion Magazine...OK, it's a blog Sat, 02 Dec 2006 16:05:19 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2006/11/30/because-things-werent-complicated-enough/comment-page-1/#comment-18879 Sat, 02 Dec 2006 16:05:19 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2006/11/30/because-things-werent-complicated-enough/#comment-18879 He is the one major player who didn’t leave and isn’t closely associated with any foreign power. His power is based on his family, which has multiple Saddam era martyrs and a connection to the Hezbollah movement in Lebanon.

He his probably the only prominent Iraqi who actually has real connections to all of the ethnic groups.

]]> By: Kevin Hayden https://whynow.dumka.us/2006/11/30/because-things-werent-complicated-enough/comment-page-1/#comment-18877 Sat, 02 Dec 2006 12:20:27 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2006/11/30/because-things-werent-complicated-enough/#comment-18877 Moqtada is the guy. He’s sufficiently the nationalist to blow the theorists out of the water about a post-withdrawal genocide or too close an alliance with Iran, or providing a haven for terrorists.

Bush keeps propping up the elected elites, but it’s this populist who can pull Iraq together. (Bushes hate populists). Not that al-Sadr’s an angel, nor is he likely to hold office himself. I’ve dubbed him Moqtada of Tammany Mosque, because he likes ruling from the backroom.

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