[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

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[TXnMA]

Good first steps. Now round them all up and dispose of them -- starting with this one:

[winner3000]

Excellent. No wonder Iran has told Hezbollah to wake up. They saw that their hand in Iran is no longer strong.

[BfloGuy]

In other words, the Mahdi Army has surrendered, though I doubt it will be portrayed that way in the MSM.

[ArmstedFragg]

Funny how they made this ‘magnanimous decision' the day after we advised all noncombatants to leave the area, huh? Probably just a coincidence...

[tobyhill]

This is less like a cease-fire but more like a surrender. Al-Sadr has been beat badly and now Maliki appears ready to offer him at least some face saving measure instead of making him a martyr.

[Allegra]

The Sadrist said the US military would not be allowed to operate inside Sadr City; however there is no confirmation of this from the Iraqi government or the US military. "The Iraqi forces, not the American forces, can come into Sadr City and search for weapons," Baha al Araji, a Sadrist legislator said. "We don't have big weapons, and we want this to stop."

Zrabbat biha! First, you Sadr scum are not calling the shots. If the US wants in, the US will go in.

Second, what do you think we are...idiots?? You think the US believes that those rockets that have rained down on the IZ and around Baghdad over the last month or so are coming from somewhere else? We can see and hear where they're launching from, you fools and we know who's been doing it!

What you mean is, you don't have as big of weapons as we do.

[Skooz]

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