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IRAQ: Big push coming in Sadr City
Hot Air ^ | May 8, 2008 8:15 am | Ed Morrissey

Posted on 05/08/2008 12:24:04 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach

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1 posted on 05/08/2008 12:24:06 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

The trigger was pulled in Basra,, the finale may well be in Sadr City. Get it done, Maliki!


2 posted on 05/08/2008 12:25:34 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed ... ICE toll-free tip hotline—1-866-DHS-2-ICE ... 9/11 .. Never FoRget!!!)
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To: NormsRevenge; elhombrelibre; Allegra; SandRat; tobyhill; G8 Diplomat; Dog; Cap Huff; ...
Related thread:

IRAQ: Shiite parliament bloc calls on Shiite extremists to lay down arms

3 posted on 05/08/2008 12:27:00 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Grandaughters!)
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To: NormsRevenge

Level it.


4 posted on 05/08/2008 12:27:19 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

a major operation in sadr city is long overdue. the rat nest there should have been cleaned out months ago.


5 posted on 05/08/2008 12:27:36 PM PDT by kingattax (99 % of liberals give the rest a bad name)
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To: NormsRevenge

GET SOME!!!


6 posted on 05/08/2008 12:29:15 PM PDT by AngryCapitalist (NOW is the time to stand and fight!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Call me when the city is changed, for obvious reasons, to Sadrless City.


7 posted on 05/08/2008 12:29:15 PM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Nope. Wall it off and flood it. It will be cool and Biblical at the same time!


8 posted on 05/08/2008 12:30:23 PM PDT by Holicheese (Hillary deserves the CMoH for her time in Tuzla!)
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To: NormsRevenge
Exactly....from the conclusion of the Hot Air article:

******************************EXCERPT********************

This will likely take weeks to complete. Once the battle starts, expect to read and hear plenty of media reports emphasizing civilian deaths, setbacks in the battle, defections in the Iraqi Army, and statements of defiance from Sadr. What we won’t hear is progress by Maliki and the US in finishing off Sadr’s forces until it suddenly becomes impossible to ignore it — and then we will hear about how inept the Iraqi forces were in achieving victory.

Call it the Basra Narrative. Just because it failed in Basra doesn’t mean the defeatist media won’t use it again, and again, and again.

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CNN is already starting:

Baghdad stadium to shelter Iraqis fleeing Sadr City danger

9 posted on 05/08/2008 12:31:10 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Grandaughters!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Isn’t this the last gang in Iraq that bugs the government?

Everyone else is kind of deadish right?

Maybe they want to jack Sadr up incase the dems get the win in Nov.


10 posted on 05/08/2008 12:45:12 PM PDT by The Toll
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Lets get it..


11 posted on 05/08/2008 12:49:18 PM PDT by U.S.S. Reagan
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To: The Toll
This is the largest proxy gang of the Iranians....al Qaeda is still doing damage up in the Mosul area...

It's gonna take a few years to really get all the blood letting criminals rounded up.

12 posted on 05/08/2008 12:50:07 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Grandaughters!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Sweeping out the Stables.

A job that needs doing.

13 posted on 05/08/2008 12:50:33 PM PDT by BOBTHENAILER (One by one, in small groups or in whole armies, we don't care how we do it, but we're gonna getcha)
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To: The Toll
See this to get more info...and the articles on the keylists.:

Iraq Sunnis urge Arabs to act against 'Iranian occupation'

14 posted on 05/08/2008 12:52:29 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Grandaughters!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Please finish the job Maliki!!

Don't stop until Al Sadr City has been processed. It's the _only_ way to a real government.

15 posted on 05/08/2008 12:53:53 PM PDT by veracious
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To: The Toll
This also is useful to know,,,,cause the MSMedia is not reporting it at all ...in the USA:

IRAQ: Shiite parliament bloc calls on Shiite extremists to lay down arms

16 posted on 05/08/2008 12:55:11 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Grandaughters!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

This could be a very bad year for Iran in Iraq, in Lebanon, and in Iran.


17 posted on 05/08/2008 12:58:04 PM PDT by elhombrelibre (If you share Wright's pews, you share his views.)
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To: elhombrelibre
This could be a very bad year for Iran in Iraq, in Lebanon, and in Iran.

...and it will all be be Bush's fault.....................Oops, wrong meme

18 posted on 05/08/2008 1:12:15 PM PDT by Popman (Typical bitter white male clinging to my religion and guns......................)
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To: elhombrelibre; NormsRevenge; BOBTHENAILER; Allegra
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19 posted on 05/08/2008 1:13:27 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Grandaughters!)
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20 posted on 05/08/2008 1:15:31 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Grandaughters!)
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