What's your point?
Have you bought into the bullshit that Mosques must be held as sacrosanct - safe sanctuary for Muslims?
The islamist lunatics don't -- neither should we if the members of the Mosque defile it first by their actions.
We are NOT in Iraq to make it safe for radical militants who are maneuvering for positions of strength against the ELECTED government... If those enemies of the Iraqi people, decide to wear the garments of a cleric, raise an army and think they are safe within their Mosque Headquarters --- we SHOULD relieve them of that error..
Sadr should have been killed LONG ago...
He will NEED to be killed soon, if for no other reason than his closeness to the radical leadership of Iran which some seem to indicate should earn him special respect..
We are not so much in a war against terror, as we are in war against militant Islamic lunatics wishing our destruction and their chosen lifestyle from the 7th century.. Sadr is their poster boy.... Kill him.....Now!By ANY means possible....ANYWHERE we can accomplish it -- even at the podium of his "holy" Mosque....
Semper Fi
Its really beside the point if you or I consider a Mosque to be a no fire zone, we're not there, the Iraqis are and they tend to get pretty outraged over these sort of things. If we approve or disapprove of this latest incident really doesnt make the job for out troops today and tomorrow any easier or less dangerous. If things hold true to form in Sadr City you can expect to see kids dancing around a burning humvee any time now.
"We are NOT in Iraq to make it safe for radical militants who are maneuvering for positions of strength against the ELECTED government... If those enemies of the Iraqi people, decide to wear the garments of a cleric, raise an army and think they are safe within their Mosque Headquarters --- we SHOULD relieve them of that error.."
Tough words but hopelessly misguided analysis, Sadr controls one of the largest and most influential ELECTED politcal blocks in the fledgling Iraqi government. You are correct in phrasing it as a "we" and "they" situation but you're forgetting "we're" in "their" country. You could no more remove these Shiites from Iraq than you could remove Southern Baptists from the US.
"We are not so much in a war against terror, as we are in war against militant Islamic lunatics wishing our destruction and their chosen lifestyle from the 7th century.. Sadr is their poster boy.... Kill him.....Now!By ANY means possible....ANYWHERE we can accomplish it -- even at the podium of his "holy" Mosque...."
Again the talk is tough but the logic is lacking, yes go ahead and kill him but then what? Saddam had problems with Sadr's father and killing him didnt stop the Madhi movement did it? Sure you can drop a bomb on his Mosque tonight but by dawn there'll be even more momentum and reason for his followers to openly rise up.