Cleric Sadr threatens "open war" on Iraq government

abc news ^ | Apr 19, 2008 | Dean Yates and Wisam Mohammed

[Red Steel]

Iraqi Shi'ite radical leader Muqtada al-Sadr delivers a
sermon to worshippers during the weekly Friday noon
prayers at the Kufa mosque near Najaf, 160 km (100
miles) south of Baghdad May 26, 2006. (Ali Abu Shish/Reuters)

[MinorityRepublican]

Screw the rules of engagement. Let's go after the sadr dogs. If we cannot, then I suggest we withdraw from Iraq right now.

Enough with politics!

[Jimmy Valentine]

Will someone, anyone please push a button on this mutt! He is nothing but a fat a&&ed punk with a big mouth. When it gets too hot politicallt the runs away to Iran.

Drag his fat behind into the street and give him an old fashioned public fanny whipping.

He will cry like a little girl.

[snarks_when_bored]

Cleric Sadr threatens "open war" on Iraq government

I'm trying to see why this might be bad news...I really am...

[RightWhale]

For a while no threads on this, then a bunch. The war will be short if it starts at all. Maybe Iran will come in overtly. That might be a plus, but not for Japan or China.

[aculeus]

Some people just need killing.

[Farmer Dean]

It would be better to drag him out into the street and give him two in the back of the head.

[levotb]

This pr**k should have bee “taken out” years ago when his thugs tortured and killed, then mutilated and burned th corpses of four U.S. soldiers or Marines. Why hasn’t Bush given the word to take him out?

[DieHard the Hunter]

> "Do you want a third uprising?" Sadr said, adding that he wanted Iraq's Shi'ite clerical establishment to set a date for the departure of American troops.

Well, it's a closed question: yes or no. I'm going to guess that the Iraqi government is going to pick "yes".



He's got a distinctly hangable look on his face: he'd probably look great as a lamp-post decoration.

[paudio]

What, he didn't engage in an ‘open war’ before?

[Jeff Head]

If they conduct “Open war”, and he directs it from Iran...then a JDAM, that’s “Just Damn” for the Jihadist leadeers, should have his name written all over it and land on his head in iran soonest.

[rawcatslyentist]

Glad to see ya Go go go go goodbye!

[MinorityRepublican]

I’m a little bit tired with President Bush. With John McCain as our next President, hopefully he has what it takes to finish the job in Iraq.

[Levante]

Proly because Bush has more to gain by letting this piece of feces live than die. Bush doesn’t want to offend his good buddies, the Saudis.

[navyguy]

You said it, brother. Kill this punk and every damn one of his dirt eating followers. Violence and death are the only thing they understand and the only thing they live for.

We should give him the war he’s threatening, starting with the carpet bombing of Sadr City and a bullet through his fat head.

[headstamp 2]

Declaration from Mookie Halitosis:

“Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr on Saturday threatened an “open war” against the Iraqi government unless it halted a crackdown by Iraqi and U.S. security forces on his followers.”

You got it Mookie. The first bullet has your name on it. This pig needs to be greased post haste. Should have been done Years ago.

[SevenMinusOne]

Screw the rules of engagement. Let's go after the sadr dogs. If we cannot, then I suggest we withdraw from Iraq right now. Enough with politics!

Sadr is much over hyped in reality (as he hides in Iran) - Outside of that, you seemingly don't understand COIN -

We continue to be successful in Iraq - We continue to be successful in this GWOT - Changing the world and pulling the ME out of the dark ages is going to be a 2 steps forward, 1 step backward process......Full stop. You either cowboy the hell up and understand this.....or we lose.

And hiding behind the foolish empty rhetoric that "politics" are the reasons why XY & Z are not being done or carried out.....is BS, repeated oftenly by those who don't have a clue when it comes to COIN (which is where Iraq is at this time).

The times and places of OUR choosing.....And for the most part we have kept this GWOT in this realm since late 01...

There has always been valid reasons for having Iraqi forces be the ones to eventually knock out Mehdi and JAM forces...

[org.whodat]

How will that be possible there have been many posts here saying he was finished. So don’t worry about it. “Sac off”

[MileHi]

Open war? Fat chance. They will scurry like the rodents they are. But go ahead, grab some uniforms, make your formations and see what happens. My money is on the US Marines. They may only need to watch as they send the Iraqies to do their light work.

[samadams2000]

Amen brother.