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2004-08-18 Iraq-Jordan

Iraq interim DM vows to ''teach al Sadr men unforgettable lesson''

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Posted by Steve 2004-08-18 9:06:04 AM|| || Front Page|| [11129 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I can't believe they'd start this on a Thursday, before the Holiest of days. Saturday, if they're serious.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2004-08-18 9:12:16 AM|| 2004-08-18 9:12:16 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Well, it's not as if they can hold Friday prayers in the Imam Ali Mosque if it's in the middle of a war. Also, it's not as if Sadr can issue a Friday sermon when he's holed up in an unusable mosque, isolated from the media.

Posted by Mitch H. 2004-08-18 9:41:51 AM|| [http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2004-08-18 9:41:51 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 I doubt that psycho dickhead Tater now understands that he has overplayed his hand. Maybe he will when he starts cavorting with his 72 raisins.
Can't happen soon enough.

Posted by JerseyMike 2004-08-18 10:02:05 AM|| 2004-08-18 10:02:05 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Tick, tick, tick....

American marines and soldiers have been doing most of the fighting in Najaf, but Shaalan said Iraqi forces had been training to storm the shrine complex and could complete such an operation within hours. "It will be Iraqis who enter the shrine ... there will be no American role in this, except giving air protection and protecting some roads leading to the shrine. But the entry (of the shrine) will be 100 percent Iraqi," Shaalan told Al Arabiya, a pan-Arab television channel, in Najaf.

Just like we thought, that's why all the delay. We may have built a mockup of the shrine somewhere and have been drilling the Iraqi troops till they were ready. I figure a night assault, fast with suppressed weapons, kill them before they can respond.

Posted by Steve 2004-08-18 10:09:38 AM|| 2004-08-18 10:09:38 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 I don't want them to "teach him a lesson", it implies he will be around to apply it. I want them to make a lesson out of him.

Posted by BH 2004-08-18 10:17:20 AM|| 2004-08-18 10:17:20 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Has a good sound to it, but I'll celebrate when he delivers.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-08-18 10:19:12 AM|| 2004-08-18 10:19:12 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 I have advice for those incharge over there...
"Less Talk, More Rock"

Posted by Yosemite Sam 2004-08-18 10:30:11 AM|| 2004-08-18 10:30:11 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Latest news is that Al-Sadr has backed down and agreed to leave the mosque ... should be a link in the next hour if its confirmed true.

Posted by Lux 2004-08-18 10:45:16 AM|| 2004-08-18 10:45:16 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 CRAP! Fox (7:45AM PST) sez Tater's accepted a ceasefire with unnamed conditions....

Posted by Frank G 2004-08-18 10:46:04 AM|| 2004-08-18 10:46:04 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 Lux - Yep - I heard it on FoxNews, too - and haven't found anything online to confirm.

Since it appears today was the day, he cut it close.

Of course, I am hoping that either the report is false or they reject his bullshit and go ahead and storm the place anyway.

Posted by .com 2004-08-18 10:50:04 AM|| 2004-08-18 10:50:04 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 Kill him already.

This is another "victory" for him.

And another attack might not happen. Today's NY Times is spinning the whole operation, saying Marines went ahead without OK from the Pentagon on anybody other than the local Iraqi police. Of course now word will come down that no operation can begin without orders from the top.

Posted by growler 2004-08-18 10:51:47 AM|| 2004-08-18 10:51:47 AM|| Front Page Top

#12 Fox (7:45AM PST) sez Tater's accepted a ceasefire with unnamed conditions....

This is bullshit. Sadr is NOT in any position to set conditions, and that needs to be made crystal clear. Acceptance of any of his "conditions" only serves to boost the turd's stock among potential recruits.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-08-18 10:56:24 AM|| 2004-08-18 10:56:24 AM|| Front Page Top

#13 First - one member of the Iraqi convention going on in Baghdad SAYS she has a letter from Sadrs BAGHDAD office (ie NOT from him and his close aides in Najaf) that hes willing to accept the conditions delivered by the convention delegation - which were that we was to leave the shrine and disarm, in return for not being attacked. I wouldnt get to worked up about this, just yet.

Posted by Liberalhawk 2004-08-18 11:48:09 AM|| 2004-08-18 11:48:09 AM|| Front Page Top

#14 This is a ploy if anything at all
keep the water OFF! Stop all water trucks! Keep the cordon up! (whoever let the last ones in should be shot)
wait his ass out and kill em as the emerge....1000 hard boyz is a lotta thirst

Posted by Frank G 2004-08-18 11:52:50 AM|| 2004-08-18 11:52:50 AM|| Front Page Top

#15 well..I suppose if he surrenders it is good. He can achieve the status of Louis Farrakan (sp? who cares) Jessie Jackson or Al Sharpton. Some might say Pat Buchannan or David Duke.. is there a difference?

Iran won't get the money from the Shrine anymore, the Iraqi's will.

It's not as good as if he was dead. But it's the best that all sides ...Iranian/Iraqi/American could hope for.

If everyone is ok with it, but not happy, it must be a good compromise.

Posted by B 2004-08-18 11:56:05 AM|| 2004-08-18 11:56:05 AM|| Front Page Top

#16

Frank, you're right - that's alot of mouths...

Mebbe we could call Dominos and have them deliver...

Posted by .com 2004-08-18 11:56:27 AM|| 2004-08-18 11:56:27 AM|| Front Page Top

#17 ok...I want to change something...it's not the best that we could have obtained or hoped for...we could have..and maybe should have...wiped this sorry **&&& from the planet.

But it's not the worst that could have happened for us either. But Hey! Isn't that what a negotiation is all a bout -a plea bargain is little more than both sides realize that they could do better, they could do worse.

PS....love the images. Got any Col Sanders with some mashed taters?

Posted by B 2004-08-18 12:03:51 PM|| 2004-08-18 12:03:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 well..I suppose if he surrenders it is good. He can achieve the status of Louis Farrakan (sp? who cares) Jessie Jackson or Al Sharpton. Some might say Pat Buchannan or David Duke.. is there a difference?

Frankly, no. But there is a huge difference between Sadr surrendering or abandoning the mosque and actually being taken into custody. The end result must involve Sadr ~~catching a slug~~ wearing matching bracelets or all of this is 31 Flavors of USDA Inspected Prime Cut Dry Aged Grade AAA Jumbo Size 14 Carat Ranch Style Heinz 57 Varieties of pure-dee horseshit!

Posted by Zenster 2004-08-18 3:42:24 PM|| 2004-08-18 3:42:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#19 .com in re #17 --- That only works IF the ordinance is loaded with "unclean" Pepperoni!

Posted by BigEd 2004-08-18 5:24:00 PM|| 2004-08-18 5:24:00 PM|| Front Page Top

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