[Proud_USA_Republican]

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

[tobyhill]

They will and the MSM will follow their celebrations in the streets but the reality of this one is Sadr got his ass whooped. He’ll be back but if he tries to use the same weapons he tried this time he’ll get whooped even harder.

[DAC21]

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

Well if the Mahdi doesn't, LA Times writers of the likes of Alexandra Zavis will.

Here are a few of her quotes today”

“Sadr loyalist battled Gov. forces to a draw” or “The Gov. campaign instead revealed the strength of the Mahdi Army militia which fought more than 28,000 gov. troops to a stand still in Basra and pounded the Green Zone with days of punishing rocket and mortar fire.

All I know is the dying was done by the Sadr minions. This chick reporter would seem to be delusional.

[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.)