Posted on 08/13/2004 3:49:58 AM PDT by Barney Gumble
I still like him, and he is doing a better job than Kerry would, but come on already… how many chances will we give Sadr, when he does deserve any?
I can't believe we are doing this again...
Wish you wouldn't use that name in the title that way.
This article should be posted in Breaking News.
In an earlier article, posted today, a Mehdi militia official was interviewed in the HQ, and he said then that negotiations were ongoing all day, with an eye to a withdrawl and regrouping.
Watch the sacrilige in the title. Ruins the whole thread.
Seems that the vernacualr of armchair quaterbacking has seeped onto FR.
Allawi, time to step up to the plate. Are you going to lead Iraq? Let your troops go in there and extract the treasonous cleric. After the fighting is done, make a generous gift to the shrine and invite moderate clerics to oversee the reconstruction of anything broken.
It was never the intent of the shrine for it to harbor killers. These criminals have killed Iraqi's of the very branch of the faith to which the shrine is holy. Their declared goals and their methods have nothing in common, and their lie must be exposed. Storm the shrine! Take prisoners and kill any who resist! Restore the shrine to its sanctified purpose! Try the men as criminals under your law, and bring peace to your troubled country.
Just hurry up and do it, and get it over with!
This cessation of offensive actions is to give cover to the deployment of Iraqi forces to press the attack into the final "holy" sites.
You'd think we'd be smarter after watching the palis employ these same tactics on Israel for so many years.
Good point!
You can do all the armchair quarterbacking you want, but I will trust our military. They know what they are doing, IMO.
As the expert behind the keyboard pontificates.
Should be Jesus Jumping Christmas.
I wouldn't read too much into these "negotiations.
Sadr isn't going to get away this time.
He will be captured or killed.
is not even directly involved in when they start or stop.
I would even go so far as to say the generals on the ground
who make the decision to stop, do so with intelligence
you nor I have and as such prevent more American deaths.
Take a breath.
I'm guessing that foremost in Allawi's mind were all the potential Shiite voters we were killing in Najaf.
One thing I've noticed about Bush is that he's willing to do the right thing and let others do the right thing, no matter what the political fallout.
If we went full bore, they'd say he was doing it for political reasons.
We stop, and some say he's doing it for political reasons.
He's doing it for the right reasons, political hay be darned.
This is Church of the Nativity II.
EXACTLY.
This crap reads like a replay of Viet Nam.
You'd think these people won the war, not us.
You'd think these people won the war, not us.
And you know this how? Are you posting from Najaf?
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