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2004-05-07 Iraq-Jordan

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Posted by Dan Darling 2004-05-07 4:09:37 PM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Nice. Sadr's got to be sweating. At this point I think its better if we don't kill him. No need to turn this loser into a martyr--he and his followers are increasingly shunned by the Shia general population. The only thing that can slow that trend is if we kill him. Best now if the Badr Organizations captures him and turns him over for trial. Still, I would shed no tears if we turned Tater into hash browns.

Posted by sludj 2004-05-07 4:28:04 PM|| 2004-05-07 4:28:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 "Listen to the advice of the learned ones. You are our beloved youth and we care about you, but go back to your home where you came from and fight the occupation and the Baathists there,"

Bzzzt! Sorry, wrong answer. Please come back and try again later. This is not any "advice of the learned ones," this is a great way to get your head blown off and little else.

Posted by Zenster 2004-05-07 5:27:29 PM|| 2004-05-07 5:27:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 ". . . go back to your home where you came from and fight the occupation and the Baathists there."

Every "respected cleric" for himself.

Note - "respected cleric' is an oxymoron.

Posted by Jake 2004-05-07 6:11:07 PM|| 2004-05-07 6:11:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Minutes later, gun-toting militiamen from the Badr Organisation, the armed wing of the main Shiite political party, the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (news - web sites), whisked Kubbanji away

A shoot-out between the Badr Brigade and the Sadr Mehdi Army over the corpses of any number of learned ones would make good TV. Wonder if Al Jazeera would show it?

Posted by RWV 2004-05-07 7:18:55 PM|| 2004-05-07 7:18:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 This is what Nostradom..err...Wretchard at Belmont Club was predicting. Who is this guy? Enquiring minds want to know.

Posted by whitecollar redneck 2004-05-07 8:04:15 PM|| 2004-05-07 8:04:15 PM|| Front Page Top

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