Agreed, Not our problem. We need to stop killing and stop dying.
Hipparchia, I don’t doubt that some of that happened already, although probably not intentionally. Loadmasters tend to be less that careful when unloading cargo in hot zones, even if the cargo is pallets of cash.
]]>Malaki needs al Sadr to support him or abstain to keep a government. If Moqtada al Sadr decides to openly opposed him, the current government is toast. People forget that the al Sadr delegates are among the few members of parliament who actually show up for meetings and vote.
]]>The US keeps poking the Mahdi Army and the civilian population that supports it.
We need to get out of that mess and let those people take care of their business in their way.
I figure the Badr Corps and Mahdi Army will hang together just long enough to take on the Sunnis, then turn on each other. The Peshmerga will hold the southern border of Kurdistan.
It’s going to be a mess, but things have gone too far to stop it now. The most we are doing is postponing the inevitable, and dying to do it.
]]>He has the allegiance of a couple of million in Baghdad’s Sadr city slum and a militia as large as the Multinational Force-I [MNF-I]. Sooner or later, someone in command is going to be forced to figure out that we really don’t want to have a pitched battle with this guy.
]]>blast from the past: who is muqtada al-sadr? meh. just some youg whippersnapper with no following.
]]>We keep attacking this guy, who is no more or less of a vicious bastard than anyone else with power in Iraq, when he is the only one who could give us an easy out.
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