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Iraqi Army Takes Last Basra Areas From Sadr Force
The Virginian/NY Times ^ | 4/20/2008 | Moneyrunner

Posted on 04/20/2008 3:55:19 PM PDT by moneyrunner

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1 posted on 04/20/2008 3:55:19 PM PDT by moneyrunner
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To: moneyrunner

But Dirtbag Harry said they lost this battle, how can this be??

Pray for W and Our Troops


2 posted on 04/20/2008 4:15:33 PM PDT by bray (Go InSain)
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To: moneyrunner

Useful Idiot Savants.


3 posted on 04/20/2008 4:15:57 PM PDT by rfp1234 (Phodopus campbelli: household ruler since July 2007.)
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To: moneyrunner

It’s a mere flesh wound.


4 posted on 04/20/2008 4:18:45 PM PDT by RightWhale (Repeal the Law of the Excluded Middle)
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To: moneyrunner; All

We need to start praising the US MSM for participating in USG/GoI OPDEC and drawing JAM out to where we can finish them...

Think about it.

Sadr is in Tehran and only knows what is going on from the press. He doesn’t know what is really going on because the US MSM is keeping to its theme of this being a bad thing. So he keeps urging his troops on to their defeat...

At this point, like Hitler after ‘43, it would be a mistake to kill Sadr. His incompetance and gullability is to our advantage in eliminating his forces...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20080420/wl_mcclatchy/2915454

“If Sadr’s militia, conservatively estimated at some 60,000 men, [by who?] were to rise up, it could mean the end of the drop in violence in Iraq and an inter-sectarian war. Already thousands [how many?] of government soldiers have deserted in both Basra and Sadr City, refusing to fight the Shiite militia. Some deserted because of threats to their families, others from a moral objection by the mostly Shiite Iraqi security forces to fight their Shiite brothers.”


5 posted on 04/20/2008 4:20:18 PM PDT by DJ Elliott
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Well Mookie, we're gonna "liberate" you from the burden of respiration!

Bring some ice water, it's gonna be hot for a looooooong time!

6 posted on 04/20/2008 4:20:33 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist (If you're not following Jesus, just who are you following, and where are they leading you?)
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Why his fighters have clung to those fight-then-fade tactics is unknown.

The Messiah-bama knows why: they're "bitter"!

7 posted on 04/20/2008 4:29:45 PM PDT by rfp1234 (Phodopus campbelli: household ruler since July 2007.)
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To: bray
But Dirtbag Harry said they lost this battle, how can this be??

Via political promotion at the cost of the truth.

Happens all the time within the Democrat party.

8 posted on 04/20/2008 4:30:03 PM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: DJ Elliott

Reports have it that Muqtada was kicked out of Iran over a week ago, and is back in Najaf.


9 posted on 04/20/2008 4:35:01 PM PDT by DGHoodini (Tin eared zeroes and Hollypukes comin...)
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Unconfirmed rumors have Sadr kicked out of Iran.
The people, who’s job is tracking him, say he is still in Iran.
RUMINT is not a dependable source, in any country...


10 posted on 04/20/2008 4:51:02 PM PDT by DJ Elliott
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To: DJ Elliott

I’ve been trying to track this, is there any proof as of 4/14 that Mookie is still breathing? There was a take-out in Shiraz - mosque, ‘cultural’ center - last Monday.


11 posted on 04/20/2008 5:11:56 PM PDT by txhurl
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To: moneyrunner

Can a professional in this field please explain something to me? To wit:

With all the superb snipers we have, why can’t we take this barbarian out? Doesn’t he ever go out in public in a place where he would be vulnerable?


12 posted on 04/20/2008 5:14:51 PM PDT by ottbmare
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To: txflake

No evidence either way.
All his statements have been by spokesman but, that is normal for him...


13 posted on 04/20/2008 5:35:28 PM PDT by DJ Elliott
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To: ottbmare

Mookie is in Iran.
It was rumored he was going back to Basra but I haven’t heard anything further.


14 posted on 04/20/2008 5:36:25 PM PDT by WorkerbeeCitizen (I get a GrandSon - Down with big brother.)
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To: ottbmare

Why would we want to kill him? He is the best ally we have had since Hitler. His incompatence and cowardace is to our advantage.

P.S. It is illegal to conduct an assassination without a presidential finding (EO 12333 was confirmed by congress as law in 1982). Sadr is not in Iraq where we can treat it as part of war. He is in Iran and we are not in an official state of war with Iran...


15 posted on 04/20/2008 5:40:29 PM PDT by DJ Elliott
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To: moneyrunner
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This booger eating punk hides in his mosque or in Iran and lets the dumb Shiites do the bleeding and martyring. Somebody needs to send a Stinger up his @$$.

16 posted on 04/20/2008 5:58:44 PM PDT by RoadKingSE (How do you know that the light at the end of the tunnel isn't a muzzle flash?)
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To: moneyrunner

NYT headline: “Sky is still falling”.


17 posted on 04/20/2008 6:30:47 PM PDT by AZLiberty (Wipe the national hard drive and reinstall the Constitution.)
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According to DEBKA, Sadr is back in Iraq, living in a van down by the river.


18 posted on 04/20/2008 8:05:25 PM PDT by reeb88 (How much fun are 72 virgins anyway? How much crying can one martyr take?)
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Worth posting......

http://funnyvideooftheday.blogspot.com/2006/03/chris-farley-van-down-by-river-skit.html


19 posted on 04/20/2008 8:10:25 PM PDT by eyedigress (If you aren't voting who cares about your opinion.)
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To: moneyrunner

The American and British MSM are deeply saddened that their continued cheerleading and support for Mookie’s forces have not resulted in victory for him.


20 posted on 04/20/2008 10:12:13 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Democrats - The Original Slave Owners)
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