Comments on: Is this the Final Showdown with al-Sadr? http://www.patterico.com/2008/03/26/is-this-the-final-showdown-with-al-sadr/ Harangues that just make sense Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:53:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: dr kill http://www.patterico.com/2008/03/26/is-this-the-final-showdown-with-al-sadr/#comment-329650 dr kill Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:54:10 +0000 http://patterico.com/2008/03/26/is-this-the-final-showdown-with-al-sadr/#comment-329650 Well said, Sherlock. Even American Democrats can conclude the situation in Basra and the south will extend to the rest of the country if we declare victory and leave. Brown and the British are a joke, a very bad joke. The rest of old NATO is worse. Well said, Sherlock. Even American Democrats can conclude the situation in Basra and the south will extend to the rest of the country if we declare victory and leave. Brown and the British are a joke, a very bad joke. The rest of old NATO is worse.

]]> By: Patricia http://www.patterico.com/2008/03/26/is-this-the-final-showdown-with-al-sadr/#comment-329644 Patricia Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:42:18 +0000 http://patterico.com/2008/03/26/is-this-the-final-showdown-with-al-sadr/#comment-329644 The Iraqi bloggers and their readers have been saying END IT NOW for the past three years. So please, now! Who will rid me of this meddlesome priest! The Iraqi bloggers and their readers have been saying END IT NOW for the past three years. So please, now!

Who will rid me of this meddlesome priest!

]]> By: stef http://www.patterico.com/2008/03/26/is-this-the-final-showdown-with-al-sadr/#comment-329633 stef Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:03:49 +0000 http://patterico.com/2008/03/26/is-this-the-final-showdown-with-al-sadr/#comment-329633 so fund and arm sunni militias, smash some shiite ones, and help the supreme council for islamic revolution? sounds like a plan. so fund and arm sunni militias, smash some shiite ones, and help the supreme council for islamic revolution? sounds like a plan.

]]> By: Chuck Simmins http://www.patterico.com/2008/03/26/is-this-the-final-showdown-with-al-sadr/#comment-329594 Chuck Simmins Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:14:55 +0000 http://patterico.com/2008/03/26/is-this-the-final-showdown-with-al-sadr/#comment-329594 Sadr is the puppet. Iran is the "man behind the curtain". http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/677047/moqtada_alsadr_starts_to_fight.html Sadr is the puppet. Iran is the “man behind the curtain”.

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/677047/moqtada_alsadr_starts_to_fight.html

]]> By: L.N. Smithee http://www.patterico.com/2008/03/26/is-this-the-final-showdown-with-al-sadr/#comment-329573 L.N. Smithee Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:56:46 +0000 http://patterico.com/2008/03/26/is-this-the-final-showdown-with-al-sadr/#comment-329573 <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLW963ewcq8" rel="nofollow"><i>Wabbit</i> season! <i>Duck</i> season!</a> No...It's <b>MUQ </b>season! And I say, <b>FIRE!!!</b> Wabbit season!

Duck season!

No…It’s MUQ season! And I say, FIRE!!!

]]> By: DRJ http://www.patterico.com/2008/03/26/is-this-the-final-showdown-with-al-sadr/#comment-329571 DRJ Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:45:44 +0000 http://patterico.com/2008/03/26/is-this-the-final-showdown-with-al-sadr/#comment-329571 I don't know if it's the final showdown or just another blip between cease-fires, but it does sound like the "divide and conquer" strategy is working. I don’t know if it’s the final showdown or just another blip between cease-fires, but it does sound like the “divide and conquer” strategy is working.

]]> By: Mike K http://www.patterico.com/2008/03/26/is-this-the-final-showdown-with-al-sadr/#comment-329570 Mike K Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:43:29 +0000 http://patterico.com/2008/03/26/is-this-the-final-showdown-with-al-sadr/#comment-329570 Confederate Yankee <a href="http://confederateyankee.mu.nu/" rel="nofollow">sees it the same way.</a> Confederate Yankee sees it the same way.

]]> By: Mike K http://www.patterico.com/2008/03/26/is-this-the-final-showdown-with-al-sadr/#comment-329567 Mike K Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:21:27 +0000 http://patterico.com/2008/03/26/is-this-the-final-showdown-with-al-sadr/#comment-329567 The Times completely ignored the fact that this completes one of the "mileposts" they have been demanding. The Shiite government is taking on Shiite militias. It may even explain why Maliki has dragged his feet with the Sunnis. Keep his street cred with the Shia until Sadr is finished off. The Times completely ignored the fact that this completes one of the “mileposts” they have been demanding. The Shiite government is taking on Shiite militias. It may even explain why Maliki has dragged his feet with the Sunnis. Keep his street cred with the Shia until Sadr is finished off.

]]> By: sherlock http://www.patterico.com/2008/03/26/is-this-the-final-showdown-with-al-sadr/#comment-329564 sherlock Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:06:51 +0000 http://patterico.com/2008/03/26/is-this-the-final-showdown-with-al-sadr/#comment-329564 Two simple questions for the media: 1. Remember how you patiently explained to us how Brits were so much smarter than the US in using "soft" power in the area of Iraq they had responsibility for? 2. What was that area, again? Two simple questions for the media:

1. Remember how you patiently explained to us how Brits were so much smarter than the US in using “soft” power in the area of Iraq they had responsibility for?

2. What was that area, again?

]]> By: SPQR http://www.patterico.com/2008/03/26/is-this-the-final-showdown-with-al-sadr/#comment-329562 SPQR Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:00:53 +0000 http://patterico.com/2008/03/26/is-this-the-final-showdown-with-al-sadr/#comment-329562 Wasn't one of the trio on the threads about Iraq earlier complaining that the Iraq operation had put a pro-Iranian Shiite in charge of Iraq? This story should pull a lot of wind out of his sails, but the BDS was too strong. Wasn’t one of the trio on the threads about Iraq earlier complaining that the Iraq operation had put a pro-Iranian Shiite in charge of Iraq? This story should pull a lot of wind out of his sails, but the BDS was too strong.

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