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Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Al Sadr Votes On Surge With His Feet

And he cast a ballot for “yes, it’s working.”

Feb. 13, 2007 — While members of the U.S. House of Representatives take turns weighing in on President Bush’s planned troop surge in Iraq, the focus in Iraq is not on the arrival of more U.S. troops, but the departure of one of the country’s most powerful men, Moqtada al Sadr and members of his army.

According to senior military officials, al Sadr left Baghdad two to three weeks ago and fled to Tehran, Iran, where he has family.

Al Sadr commands the Mahdi army, one of the most formidable insurgent militias in Iraq, and his move coincides with the announced U.S. troop surge in Baghdad.

Sources believe al Sadr is worried about an increase of 20,000 U.S. troops in the Iraqi capital. One official told ABC News’ Martha Raddatz, “He is scared he will get a JDAM [bomb] dropped on his house.”

Sources say some of the Mahdi army leadership went with al Sadr.

Sadr’s not gone for good though, of course, but with his departure perhaps our troops and the Iraqi security forces will have some breathing room to be able to focus in training more Iraqi forces, rebuilding more infrastructure and securing more areas within Baghdad.

Which was exactly what the surge was supposed to accomplish in the first place.

Meanwhile, morons in Congress are still grandstanding their opposition to the surge.

Comments

Did I hear that Iraq is closing it’s boarders to Syria and Iran???

Zsa Zsa on February 14, 2007 at 06:28 am

This is why the Defeatocrats want to kill the troop reinforcements; they might succeed.


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robert108 on February 14, 2007 at 07:29 am

AAAHHHHH.....Another rat down a hole. Isn’t it absolutely amazing that these vermin are perfectly happy to preach holy war and martrydom (martyrdumb) as long as it’s someone else doing the fighting and the martyring. When it gets close to them it’s, “Er, excuse me I, uh, left my wallet in, uh, Iran....be right back. In the meantime go show those infidels we mean business!”

Al-sadr, Mullah Omar, Bin Laden, Al Zawahiri, all talked a good game but scattered like the rats they are when it came time to put up or shut up.


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Pilgrim on February 14, 2007 at 07:29 am

Yes indeedy. If Paradise is so great why do these “leaders” not martyr themselves and go there?

I am finding conflicting reports on Sadr, it may be that he has withdrawn from Baghdad, he may have scampered as far as Mandali or Hoseyniyeh. He might be trapped on the west side of the border around Tursaq or Badrah.

The Iranians are not going to be happy to see their cat’s paw drawing attention in their direction, especially after losing all those .50 rifles. Very sloppy, and one thing Persians are not fond of is failures. They very quickly wind up with their head on a pike.


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2Hotel9 on February 14, 2007 at 07:58 am
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An unnamed source with absolutely no proof---and yet you accept it as the gospel truth.

Why is that?

Don Myers on February 14, 2007 at 08:44 am

So tell us where he is, donnie. Dazzle us with your brilliance. Ignore BBC, Xinhua, DailyStar Beriut, Khaleej Times, etc etc etc. You tell us where Mookie is.


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2Hotel9 on February 14, 2007 at 08:58 am
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You’re missing the point 2 (as usual).

Rob has repeatedly slammed the media for using unnamed sources. Now he finds an article based on absolutely nothing except an unnamed source and he believes it as if it were stone tablets from on high.

I’m just asking---why do you believe this unnamed source but not the other unnamed sources.

have I made that question clear enough for you, 2?

Don Myers on February 14, 2007 at 09:03 am

Don,

Quick off-topic note.  My detailed examination and documentation of Joe Wilson’s lies is coming… hopefully later today.  Heaven knows, I wouldn’t want you to think I had forgotten you, and I certainly wouldn’t want to be seen as someone who ignores his commitments as do those on the Left.


“Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.”

Bat One on February 14, 2007 at 09:04 am
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bat:

I look forward to your rabid collection of half-truths and Limbaugh quotes.

Don Myers on February 14, 2007 at 09:06 am

Don,

The correct phrasing would be “… your collection of rabid half-truths and Limbaugh quotes.” If you can’t properly express yourself, how can you expect anyone to take what you say seriously?

Incidentally, I have no need for Rush quotes to prove my point that Joe Wilson is a liar, and I look forward to your equally authoritative documentation, for a change, in rebuttal.


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Bat One on February 14, 2007 at 09:18 am

Sadr has not been seen for a couple of weeks. A political creature that can not get enough facetime has dropped entirely from sight. No one can acertain his whereabouts. And it is all speculation, and will remain so until his tortured, headless body turns up in an alley. Which it possibly already has.

Why are you abandoning your beloved media sources? You hate religious leaders of all kinds, you should be giddy with glee at the prospect that a prominent Holy Man is dead. Whatsup? You run out of lithium?


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2Hotel9 on February 14, 2007 at 09:28 am
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Shorter 2:

1. I want to believe
2. Ergo, it’s true

Don Myers on February 14, 2007 at 09:33 am

Don,

Why do people on the left immedately believe any anti-Bush half story that the media presents as gospel but questions things like this?

And why are you jumping to the negative side of this? Right now the media are falling all over themselves denying that the IED’s Iran supplied could possibly have come from the highest levels of the Iranian government. They’re demanding proof.

These are the same people who wanted to hold Rumsfeld PERSONALLY responsible for the idiots at Abu Ghraib. What’s wrong with you people?


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Pilgrim on February 14, 2007 at 12:28 pm

I am wondering that too, Pilgrim. I keep thinking it is an obsessive compulsive disorder OR as I have said before a Clinton hangover???

Zsa Zsa on February 14, 2007 at 12:35 pm
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And why are you jumping to the negative side of this? Right now the media are falling all over themselves denying that the IED’s Iran supplied could possibly have come from the highest levels of the Iranian government. They’re demanding proof.

When you have the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and the new head of Central Command saying such proof does not exists yet the implications from the administration are to the opposite then why shouldn’t proof be demanded?

jon on February 14, 2007 at 01:04 pm

No, they have said that there is no proof of involvment at the “Highest levels of Iranian Govenment”, not that Iran is not supplying munitions to terrorists.
Do please learn to read.


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2Hotel9 on February 14, 2007 at 04:44 pm

1. I want to believe
2. Ergo, it’s true

Don’s version:  1. I don’t want to believe
2. Ergo, it’s not true.


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robert108 on February 14, 2007 at 09:55 pm

Pilgrim wrote:

Why do people on the left immedately believe any anti-Bush half story that the media presents as gospel but questions things like this?

And why are you jumping to the negative side of this? Right now the media are falling all over themselves denying that the IED’s Iran supplied could possibly have come from the highest levels of the Iranian government. They’re demanding proof.

These are the same people who wanted to hold Rumsfeld PERSONALLY responsible for the idiots at Abu Ghraib. What’s wrong with you people?

Pilg, it’s that pesky Perceptual Filter I told you about in action.


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Move_Zig on February 14, 2007 at 10:21 pm

I wonder, has anyone taught Mookie that favorite old marching tune of the fierce Democrat warriors “Bug Out Bogey”? He has got the step and cadence down pat!


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2Hotel9 on February 15, 2007 at 05:30 am
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