All across Iraq’s second city life is improving, a month after Iraqi troops began a surprise crackdown on the black-clad gangs who were allowed to flourish under the British military.
Most definitely not the finest hour of our British allies...
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Sadr calls for freeze in fighting; US, Iraqi forces kill 14 Mahdi fighters in Baghdad
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Less than one week after threatening to conduct an uprising against the Iraqi government and US forces, Muqtada al Sadr, the leader of the Mahdi Army, has called for his fighters to maintain the self-imposed cease-fire. The US and Iraqi military continue to strike at Sadr’s Mahdi Army in Baghdad. Ten “criminals” were killed in strikes in Sadr City, making 82 Mahdi fighters killed in the six days since Sadr threatened renewed violence.
In a statement read during the Friday prayers at the Al Hikma mosque in Sadr City, Sadr called for his militia to halt the fighting. “You have been patiently committed to the freeze decision and magnificently obeyed your leader,” Sadr statement read, according to Voices of Iraq. “I hope you retain your patience and faith.”
Sadr also said he did not threaten the Iraqi government with “open war” last weekend, but was directing his threat against Coalition forces. “The open war we threaten is meant against the occupiers,” Sadr said. “There is no war between us and our Iraqi brothers regardless of their sect or ethnicity.”
But Sadr then seemingly contradicted himself when he demanded the government “rein in the militias infiltrated” into the security forces. “I give the Iraqi government the last warning that we would wage an open war until liberation if it failed to rein in the militias infiltrated into it,” Sadr said.
Women across the globe should be the strongest supporters of our war against these fanatics because they would be the biggest losers if the fanatics had their way...a la Basra, Afghanistan under the Taliban, etc...
WAKE UP WOMEN OF THE WORLD ! ! ! !
There were no cheers for Sadr, no celebrations by the Iraqi people... It struck me as very odd that the only spontaneous cheer to rise up from the initial operations in Basra was from the newsrooms of the SurrenderMedia... this was possibly not the second coming of Vietnam the far left has been praying would arrive since the invasion of Iraq in 2003... we do finally see a spontaneous and celebratory response in the Muslim street... because the Iraqis have liberated Basra and the people are free to express themselves. And what they are expressing is a lot of defiance to Sadr and his Madi Militia of Islamo Fascist thugs... There are smiles and celebrations all around Basra now. The news media can try and manufacture false impressions, but the people reflect the real deal and they are happy to be rid of the extremists... The news media's spontaneous cheering from the first false impressions at Basra are also quite telling. It seems they have wanted something to go seriously badly for so long in Iraq that they... trumpeted the news Sadr was about to throw his pursuit of political power to the wind and lead a Shiite uprising that would carve off the southern half of Iraq as the new part of Iran. It was like a liberal dream come true![singing] Mook, Mook, Mookie, goodbye, Mook, Mook, Mookie, please die...
Great news and thanks for the pings.
Of course, the main point of the article is that the news media have been lying to us, as per usual, but it’s getting so old no one but the moonbats were prepared to believe it.
But there is a significant subsidiary point: “All across Iraq’s second city life is improving, a month after Iraqi troops began a surprise crackdown on the black-clad gangs who were allowed to flourish under the British military.”
There have been a couple of stories indicating this, although the news has been pretty well buried. The British have stayed in Iraq, but basically they pulled back and did zero. They had a working arrangement with the fanatics that if they were not attacked, or not too much attacked, they would let them do as they liked. So Basra, a key city, was basically held by the enemy.
It started under Tony Blair, and probably has gotten worse under Brown. Can’t blame them, in a way, but it might have been better if they had quit the pretence and just pulled out.
Democrats wet dreams, are all about US defeats and degradations.
More good news from Iraq never to be reported in the MSM. but he whose middle name must never be spoken gets on page one every day? imagine that!