Thanks again for the great photos. It's hard to tell if the police and national guards are for/against Al Sadr.
No, it isn't. They are for him.
I'll lay odds many of those policemen themselves don't know. They just want to be on the winning side. If they think al-Sadr is winning, they'll put on their Elmer al-Fudd badges. As soon as the Mehdi Army starts taking an ass-kicking, those badges will disappear faster than your bank account under a Kerry presidency.
Yet another reason why we have to act quickly, decisively, and with overwhelming (yet precisely applied) force. If we don't, we will lose huge numbers of the Iraqi police and army that are supposedly our allies. They will respect and fear our strength, not our mercy.
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