Posted on 03/08/2008 10:50:00 PM PST by atomic conspiracy
BAGHDAD - Iraq's elusive Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr has decided to drop out of politics for the time being because his disillusionment with the political scene in Iraq has left him sick and anxious, he said in an unusually personal letter to his followers released Friday. In a written response to a query from a group of followers asking why he hadn't been seen in public for so long, Sadr said he had decided to devote himself to a period of study, reflection and prayer after failing in his core mission to rid Iraq of the U.S. occupation or to turn it into an Islamic society. He also cited the betrayal of some followers, whom he accused of falling prey to "materialistic" politics. "So far I did not succeed either to liberate Iraq or make it an Islamic society -- whether because of my own inability or the inability of society, only God knows," Sadr wrote. "The continued presence of the occupiers, on the one hand, and the disobedience of many on the other, pushed me to isolate myself in protest. I gave society a big proportion of my life. Even my body became weaker, I got more sicknesses." Speculation has been intensifying as to the whereabouts of the maverick cleric, whose Mahdi Army militia twice fought U.S. troops in 2004 and then was accused of many of the sectarian killings of Sunnis that pushed Iraq to the brink of civil war. His last public statement came two weeks ago, when he renewed the six-month cease-fire that has been credited with helping bring down the levels of violence in Iraq. But he has not been seen in public since May.
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I hope he takes a break from life on this planet soon.
I use to think whacking this guy was the answer but it looks more like keeping him alive destroys him even better. Divide and Conquer.
>>I am beginning to think we have won the war. If so, it would be the greatest defeat for activist media since Goebbels poisoned himself.
That’s a heckuva line right there - I’m going to use that.
Haven’t heard about Iraq’s ‘civil war’ in some time.
The private militias like Sadr's Mahdi Army are laying low.
Rather than fight our troops and get wiped out thay are just waiting for us to declare victory and leave.
But what will happen the second we leave and all these private militias come out of their ratholes to pick up the slaughter where they left off?
It is sad to say, but I think Iraq will become another militant muslim stronghold in less than six months of our departure.
Thats because of the Obamafication of the news,all is right with the world soon. Kumbiya.....YES WE CAN!....[ BARF!!!]
.....whether because of my own inability or the inability of society, only God knows......
The answer as all Muslims know is that his failure to prevail is Gods Will. He can’t bring himself to say it outloud though like all Muslims he proclaims the outcome of the most trivial of events to be fatalisticaly determined.
Well, it really only ever existed in the liberals' and their media enablers' minds. :-)
It's really because the progress in Iraq became too great for the media to conceal.
In 2005, I started predicting that would eventually happen and that when it did, the media would just stop reporting anything out of Iraq.
I thought I read a report the other day that he has been in a coma for a long period of time, in Iran.
Hmmmmmm?
Comment first, then read thread. That My preferred method.
(Sheesh, if I’d only read the thread first, I wouldn’t have made a reply here at all.)
Nit pick alert!
Goebbels and his wife poisoned their children, then committed suicide.
Goering took cyanide in his cell during the Nurenberg Trials.
Ah...the Mook is weak and sick.
GOOD! Just the way we like ya...beoch.
That’s a heckuva line right there - I’m going to use that.
Me too.
I miss him! ha.
Will he right a book about his kampf?
He takes his orders from Tehran. Period.
Why does the press insist on referring to him as a “maverick”? How does he fit the definition of that word? Is binLaden just a maverick?
Do you believe in the forgiveness of sins?
Then can you forgive this post:
poor, poor Moqti. He is now Sadr but wiser.
(no, no don’t throw it!) ;-)
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