[KingArthur305]

Baker says lets wipe them out.

[dr_who_2]

Prepare to worry more and do even less.

[Dog Gone]

I think we are scaring ourselves too much.

Why should any country be afraid that WE could mobilize troops using cell phones to call possible recruits to the front lines? We'll continue to slaughter them, and the only thing that can stop us is.........us.

These ain't elite fighters.

[AZLiberty]

Who do you suppose controls the cell phones and Internet in Iraq?

[Parrot_was_devastating]

Shia have been the big winners also in the Loot Iraqi oil game, ...some $750 Million looted in 2003 when their crime network was in its infancy.
Russia eye's its lost Lukoil concession in West Qurna....which is in Shia terror-tory west of Basra.
Qurna's big [Wikipedia]-one of Iraq's largest oil fields, loacated north of Rumaila field, west of Basra. West Qurna is believed to hold 11 to 15 billion barrel (1.8 to 2.4 km³) of recoverable reserve and have production potential of 0.8 to 1.0 million barrel per day (1.5 to 1.8 m³/s).

To date, petroleum geologists have delineated and mapped over 526 prospects — drilling 131 prospects to discover 73 major fields. They have identified some 239 as having a high degree of certainty, but those prospects remain undrilled. Thirty fields have been partially developed and only 12 fields are actually onstream. Undrilled structures and undeveloped fields could represent the largest untapped hydrocarbon resource anywhere in the world.
About 30 to 40 percent of discovered Iraqi oil reserves lie within a few thousand feet of the surface, while more than 60 percent of the discovered reserves lie within 10,000 feet. Most of Iraq’s proven oil reserves are distributed over 73 fields, nine of which are super-giants and 22 of which are giants. The remainder are considered large by world standards.[Geo Times]

add to this....Iraqi oil is Low Sulphur in content...which is highly desireable for existing Low Sulphur process at U.S.refineries.

Maybe its time for the Saudi's to go fight for Allah's blessing,
Allah can sort out the bodies later.

wonder how that showcase military of theirs would do in real battle : )

[zarf]

This one is truly Bush's fault.

Should we give them roses perhaps?

[zarf]

This one is truly Bush's fault.

Should we give them roses perhaps?

[Jorge]

They should have dealt with fat boy way back when they had the chance...and it wouldn't have come to this.

Now the little creep's gonna drag thousands down with him.

It amazes me how the degenerate Islam masses elevate these zeros as their leaders.

[JustDoItAlways]

We should have taken out al-Sadr and his army when we had the chance.

We should have stopped the Sunni and al-qaeda terrorists from blowing up more than 100 Shia civilians daily when we had the chance.

We blew the chances and I don't blame the Shias for finally having enough of the bombs and beheading and deciding to directly take on the Sunni terrorists in direct combat and direct tit-for-tat beheadings.

Maybe the Iraqi government should have stopped it sooner. Maybe the US should have stopped it sooner. But any man can only take seeing his fellow tribemen getting blown up and beheaded for so long before he steps up to the plate and takes on the job himself.

I am afraid we have to let them fight it out.

If the al-aqaeda terrorists win the battle, we have to go back in and really kick butt this time.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Step 1) Mookie gets a 50 cal attitude adjustment TOMORROW!

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

We had a chance in April of 2004 to take out this scumbag now it looks like we're going to pay for it one way or another.

[Bommer]

Kill al-Sadr. Wait 3 days for the funeral. Let 100,000 of those @ssholes show up for the protest funeral and kill each and everyone of them with no mercy to any one of them! Show their steam corpses on TV and tell the Ny Times they are next!

[RunningWolf]

All I have is 'my gut' on this one and my gut says that the tide may be turning on Sadr. Time will tell. A year from now I will have egg on my face or not.

For if and when the Iraqi's get serious about their national sovereignty/security, it will be the Iraqis themselves that undo him.

With the US now publicly on track to reduce forces, Sadr and his army should loose the tacit support of a civilian population that naturally would resist an occupying force.

Of course that raises another question of will forces actually be reduced on the proposed time table? Already we are seeing hesitation and balking from several spokesmen who up till now were all for it.

Agree?

[swheats]

Al Sadr and bin Laden must be the laurel and hardy of terror.

[adam_smith_76]

The Middle East is all about raw power, not the rule of law. Our completely jacked-up post-invasion strategy failed to recognize this. We issued an arrest warrant for al-Sadr, but then decided it would be better to bring him into the political process. Thus, al-Sadr and the insurgents learned that we are weak.

We should have killed al-Sadr and all of his top "commanders" and put their heads on pikes for all to see. We won't do that because of liberal hand-wringing.

The problem is that everyone knows we won't fight Roman style, so we are destined to lose every one of these post-war pacifications in the Middle East. And this is why we will never stabilize Iraq. The Iraqis must do it, and they will after the sectarian groups fill the streets with the blood of their enemies and install the next tyrant.

[OKIEDOC]

Sad in away, hundreds of FReepers two years ago, tried to tell the administration that al Sadr's private army had to go.

Just shows that FReepers were way ahead of the times.

[corlorde]

The expansion of Al-Sadr's army, in influx of foreign fighters, the Saudi backed Sunni, the Iranian backed Shia's, and the Baker report wanting to cut our troops in half (in Iraq) to flail in the wind. remove major maneuver brigades and let a handful of Special Forces and support personnel stay there?

I don't like what's going on one bit.

[montag813]

Al Sadr's "army" is the principal proof of the pathetic job the Pentagon Pussies have done in Iraq. He should have been shot in the head on day one. The WWII vets must be disgusted over the P.C. brand of "war" we wage today. In May 1945 we killed 100,000 civilians in Tokyo in a single night without a nuke. In Iraq we send our guys door to door like Avon ladies to avoid the bad press of "collateral damage". It is just disgusting. The armchair faggots who run our military are not wrothy of our brave fighting men and women.