Sadr's movement pulls out of Iraq alliance

Reuters on Yahoo ^ | 9/15/07 | Dominic Evans and Waleed Ibrahim

[NormsRevenge]

Members of Moqtada al-Sadr's political movement speak during a news conference in Najaf, 160 km (99 miles) south of Baghdad September 15, 2007. The political movement of anti-American Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr said on Saturday it had withdrawn from Iraq's ruling Shi'ite Alliance, dealing a further blow to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki. REUTERS/Ali Abu Shish(IRAQ)

[stboz]

Dirt....6 feet of dirt....hell, 60 feet of dead...dead...dirt....

Mookie...you are so over

[NormsRevenge]

The Shi’ite hits the road again.. Tar’nation and Hellfire.. MuQQty and his Mahdis need to exit the stage, for good. .. and not just by going to Tehran for awhile.. as he has in the past. jmo

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Iran pulling the strings. Apparently, Iran agrees with the Democrats — Petraeus’s report was unsettling.

[org.whodat]

As long as Sadr is alive there will be problems in Iraq and the moment we pull out he will start a take over of the country. No one seems to want to do anything about it. Oh, I’ve been saying this for about three years now!

[NormsRevenge]

Po’ MuQQty sees the writing on the wall.... We’re gonna have folks there for awhile,, which is complicating things to no end for him and his supporters.. you and I and the UN and everybody knows where that support comes from..

[saganite]

Where’s that “not this sh!# again” picture?!

[NormsRevenge]

He’s a ‘Yo-Yo’ Mahdi for sure,,, I think this is the 2nd time he has pulled this kind of crap..

[SevenMinusOne]

Mookie is nothing more than a thug-dropout Mullah wannabe - His value is constantly, highly overvalued by the Western press - He is more like Iraq's version of Jesse Jackson....A lot more hype than substance and in all actuality he controls virtually nothing.....

His "following" is an inch deep (if that). He, himself, has been reduced to hiding in Iran.....Because the majority of his own supposed "followers" left him long ago....(and he's a coward to boot).

Would I be upset to see him dead? Of course not. But the notion that he is of tremendous value has long passed.

[CJ Wolf]

[Mariner]

This is Im-a-nut-job putting pressure on Pres Bush by denying him a political settlement in Iraq.

It's all part of the Great Game.

I expect the Shiite radicals to initiate all out war against the Sunnis very soon. The only way we can prevent a BIG CIVIL WAR/SLAUGHTER is to stop it at the source...Tehran.

It's apparent the Iranians either believe we won't act...or they believe they have NO CHOICE but to act to keep their shaky coalition together. Syria just suffered a humiliating attack...NK is "making a deal"...the Sunnis in Iraq are "making a deal"...and Iran is feeling increasingly isolated.

If they really believe that BS about the 12th Imam, they are probably getting a little afraid they won't be able to fulfill their part of the bargain...the NUKE.

[DesScorp]

This is Sadr making his move to become the supreme ruler of Iraq.

[isrul]

When is the impotent U.S. going to muster the nads to just snuff this putrid, paunchy piece of muzzie dung?

[PhilDragoo]

[potlatch]

“I’m an old Camel-hand”

Thank goodness, not from the Rio Grande!!

[river rat]

In my world......that act should cause all of Sadr City, and all who live there to be designated targets.

The fat man,his “army” and the supporters of both - have to go.....

[geopyg]

Was it sadr’s guys that just killed the tribal leader (sunni even?) and the sunni’s vowed revenge. Give them a hand I would think.

[Styria]

He needed to die years ago.

But this also shows the nonsense of a parliamentary system versus federalism. I'm sick of this or that government "falling." Put an executive in for four years and let him just do his job straightening up the country. With a formal line of succession in case he gets offed.

[org.whodat]

Would I be upset to see him dead? Of course not. But the notion that he is of tremendous value has long passed.

Pity you were not born earlier, with you thought process you could have rode with Custer, to kick that bunch of savages butts.