Uncle Jimbo at Black Five tears Muqtada al-Sadr a brand new one. But UJ admits that death, slow or quick, would be better.
"Mookie is the idiot son of a family that can trace its lineage directly to Mohammed but he has failed to distinguish himself at any religious scholarship. He excels at gathering groups of thugs together, getting them jacked up on old time religion, and collecting satchels of Mullah money."
Meanwhile Iraqi PM Maliki owes his parliamentary coalition–the votes that keep him prime minister–to Mookie’s voters. But Mookie’s thugs may have been involved in the recent kidnapping of an American soldier, certainly have killed others, and been instrumental in keeping up the level of violence in Baghdad. Something’s got to give.
Ralph Peters agrees.
"I lost faith in our engagement in Iraq last week. I can pinpoint the moment. It came when I heard that Maliki had demanded–successfully–that our military release a just-captured deputy of Muqtada al-Sadr who was running death squads."
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