Posted on 04/07/2004 7:41:39 AM PDT by Carl/NewsMax
In an interview broadcast Wednesday morning, Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry defended terrorist Shiite imam Moqtada al-Sadr as a "legitimate voice" in Iraq, despite that fact that he's led an uprising that has killed nearly 20 American GIs in the last two days.
Speaking of al-Sadr's newspaper, which was shut down by coalition forces last week after it urged violence against U.S. troops, Kerry complained to National Public Radio, "They shut a newspaper that belongs to a legitimate voice in Iraq."
In the next breath, however, the White House hopeful caught himself and quickly changed direction, adding, "Well, let me . . . change the term legitimate. It belongs to a voice — because he has clearly taken on a far more radical tone in recent days and aligned himself with both Hamas and Hezbollah, which is a sort of terrorist alignment."
But Kerry again seemed to voice sympathy for the Shiite terrorist when asked whether he supported al Sadr's arrest. "Not if it’s an isolated act without the other kinds of steps necessary to change the dynamics on the ground in Iraq," Kerry told NPR, in quotes first reported by the New York Sun.
"If all we do is make war against the Iraqi people and continue an American occupation, fundamentally, without a clarity as to who and how sovereignty is being turned over, we have a very serious problem for the long run here," Kerry added. "And I think this administration is just walking dead center down into that trap."
On March 28, the U.S.-led coalition authorities closed al-Sadr's newspaper, al-Hawza, for 60 days, the Sun reported. L. Paul Bremer, the chief U.S. administrator in Iraq, charged that said the newspaper had published false stories blaming the coalition forces for local acts of terrorism.
This is the kind of BabaStreisand which fronts for a universal democracy, in which the US would be raped, robbed of her wealth, and would see her offspring slain. After all, the US citizenry is a minority in almost every way, compared to all those "equally valid" opinions in the rest of the world.
This is definitely aid and comfort to our enemies. I'm not exaggerating to say that if Kerry were to become president, the fuse on our lives and culture would be very short. He would force a necessary "regime change." He was a man so ahead of his time with that comment.
How does the formerly "loyal opposition" dare put such trash up for consideration as POTUS?!?!
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I repeat; the fact that he was on NPR will get him off the hook for that reason.
The newspaper was not banned because Sadr aligned himself with terror groups. It was banned (at least according to the Administration--I don't read Arabic) because it was inciting violence against coalition soldiers. If Kerry doesn't even know that much, can we trust him to handle the Iraq situation?
Muqtada al-Sadr is illegitimate in his own right, not because of any foreign friends he might have. He is trying to overthrow the coalition government and prevent Iraqi democracy in order to grab power for himself. He's a wannabe dictator. That's why he is not a "legitimate voice." Kerry has got to understand this, or he's going to get smacked down, hard, in November.
If this source is legitimate, which it seems to be, he (she) puts the lie to Kerry's opinion that the so-called Imam Al-Sadr is a legitimate religious figure.
He is considered a "child" and worse by other Shiite Imam's. Enjoy the read.
This Blog from a man in Iraq tells the true story. http://iraqataglance.blogspot.com/
Wednesday, April 07, 2004 Thieves and idiots !
Surely you’re watching what’s happening now in some neighborhoods in Iraq.. let me explain something about this militia.. ( you’ll never hear a similar explanation in any TV channel or radio stations… but this is the truth and the real picture of Muqtada’s group)..
First of all:
That angry dumb and silly boy is not respected by many religious leaders here in Iraq and consider him as a child , he don’t have the right to be a religious leader and he don’t have any ‘logical and legislative Islamic studies’ regarding Islam and ‘Sharia’..
Second.. that foolish boy has many thieves following him.. why? Do you know that neighborhood ‘ Althawra’ or ‘ Al-Sadr city’ in Baghdad? This is the worst place in Iraq.. yes .. all Iraqis hate that place and never ever reach there.. More than 75% of this neighborhood are thieves and murders .. they are responsible for the looting and robbery acts last year.. and of course due to their rapid and uncontrolled reproduction ( just like the rabbits) ,they have many relatives in some neighborhoods in Iraq, so when they felt that Muqtada is so permissive and may encourage such robberies; they followed him.. they love him.. they feel that he’s one of them and his laws are very compatible with their disgusting thoughts and mean goals.. Now we have a silly angry boy and thieves..
The third point .. many idiots still remember his father and they feel that he continues his father’s message in Islam.. the crowds are always around that boy listening to his words that incite and urge them to disobey whatever the GC and CPA say..
Now we have a silly angry boy, thieves and idiots..! Wow.. what a group!!
I’m afraid the world will say that Iraqis don’t deserve the liberation because of those people..
Here in Basra, few Muqtada’s men are preparing themselves, hiking among the people and in front of banks and shops waiting for another looting and robbery acts and spreading rumors about the situation in other provinces.. they say that the governmental institutes are robbed and everything lost..etc..trying to breach the peace.. some of them are carrying sacks to rob the bank if their ‘leader’ will succeed and control Iraq!!
Got the picture of this militia?!
Of course there’s no one channel can interview an educated Iraqi who dares to say all of that about this militia .. BTW I’m sure that Al-Jazeera is dancing now!
The good things are: It’s told that the British troops came to the banks and took all the money to be kept in safe places until the chaos comes to an end..
And some districts here in Basra came to a great idea, the Sheiks of many tribes held a meeting and decided to sign on papers promising that any person dares to breach the peace in their areas will be arrested or killed immediately and no one will protect him even if he was one of their tribes.. this meeting relieved the people so much…
Nearly a similar situation happened in 1999 in ‘Al-Sadr city’ when Saddam killed Muqtada’s father.. the angry people in that disgusting neighborhood made a simple chaos in the beginning , do you know what happened ? do you know how Saddam dealt with them?... a few cars went there immediately and a few men got out of the cars carrying different types of guns and rifles and started to fire continuously at them until all those people entered their houses and many of them were killed and left on the streets… then Saddam’s men completed their mission and went back..
I don’t want to say that the same thing should be done.. but I just want to say that the GC and CPA must control this freedom because it’s used improperly..
Allow me answer your rhetorical question:
Hamas and Hezbollah are in the "gray area" in the eyes of the american left.
Therefore J f'ing Kerry is "politically correct".
Stupid comment. Kerry, like so many liberals, is not as smart as he thinks he is.
It was reported that only 1 (one) percent of Shiites are supporting him
Didn't he hang out with people who did they exact same thing during the Vietnam War?
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