Sadr fighters raise white flag (Great Job Iraqi Troops with minimal US help)

The Times ^ | 3/31/2008 | AFP

[tobyhill]

The media is spinning this anyway they can to save their own face. It was just two days earlier the media claimed Sadr's militia wouldn't leave the streets but they left. Now the media is claiming that Maliki made a deal to release the captured that haven't been charged but that would have happened anyway if they weren't charged. They claim Iran is the broker of peace but now we find out that the ratlines were blocked and the militia was running out of ammo. Of course Iran was begging for it to stop, their inventory was getting depleted. Saturday the media claimed Sadr's militia controlled over 75% of Basra but today they claim the Iraqi troops control the streets but are still losing. It's really strange that the MSM claims Maliki was the one that surrendered yet the Iraqi Troops are still conducting ops in Basra. The MSM is playing the same game with Maliki as they've been playing with Bush, Move The Goalpost.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Looks that way...meanwhile their circulation continues to drop...

[tobyhill]

Exactly. The MSM couldn't possibly think people would believe that Sadr's militia came out ahead after 4,000 of their members got either killed, wounded or captured. These reporters are certified idiots.

[ScaniaBoy]

I’m sure the Mahdi army will declare this a great victory.

If not the Mahdis, the the self-serving, leftist Brit "journalists":

Nouri al-Maliki humiliated as gamble to crush Shia militias fail

(Published on the 1 April no less.)