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2007-07-22 Iraq

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Posted by Seafarious 2007-07-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top
File under: Mahdi Army

#1 Sounds like Tater is doing the Edwards poverty tour

Posted by Captain America 2007-07-22 03:16|| 2007-07-22 03:16|| Front Page Top

#2 ...or the Hezbollah suffle

Posted by Captain America 2007-07-22 03:17|| 2007-07-22 03:17|| Front Page Top

#3 Secret?

Posted by gromgoru 2007-07-22 06:50|| 2007-07-22 06:50|| Front Page Top

#4 Without linking to Defense websites, I can say: the Taters got their butts kicked for launching mortars at the Green Zone. And the kicking ain't stopped.

Posted by McZoid 2007-07-22 07:47|| 2007-07-22 07:47|| Front Page Top

#5 After months of lying low, the anti-American Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has ~~re-emerged~~ ...FLUSHED OUT and readied for destruction!

Posted by Besoeker 2007-07-22 09:15|| 2007-07-22 09:15|| Front Page Top

#6 Moqtada al-Sadr: Statesman, Scholar, Protector of the Opressed.

This was a nice li'l fluff piece to match the various whitewashes of all the leading Islamists that have been appearing in the Western press recently.

I found it appropriate that the very next article I posted last night was about Sistani's main finance guy getting waxed by...unknown armed men.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2007-07-22 11:01|| 2007-07-22 11:01|| Front Page Top

#7 Moqtada: Is there anything he can't do?

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-07-22 11:31|| 2007-07-22 11:31|| Front Page Top

#8 Win.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-07-22 11:51|| 2007-07-22 11:51|| Front Page Top

#9 One serious boo-boo. If you leave the political process, there are better than even odds that the process will continue without you, and from then on, you can go fish.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-07-22 15:58|| 2007-07-22 15:58|| Front Page Top

#10 At the same time, the Mahdi Army is not entirely under al-Sadr's control, and he publicly denounces the most notorious killers fighting in his name. That frees him to extend an olive branch to Sunni Arabs and Christians, while championing the Shi'ite identity of his political base.

Sadr must live in a house of mirrors in order to keep track of all the different faces he wears. It has long ago ceased to be ironic that al-Maliki's corrupt and hamfisted leadership helps propel Sadr's ascension to power. Both need to die with equal speed.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-07-22 16:04|| 2007-07-22 16:04|| Front Page Top

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