Democrats Find Themselves On Iraqi Thug Muqtada al-Sadr’s Side
How inconvenient for them.
BAGHDAD — Radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr launched a strong attack Saturday on President George W. Bush, calling him the “greatest evil” for refusing to withdraw American troops from Iraq.
Al-Sadr’s statement was read during a parliament session by his cousin, Liqaa al-Yassin, after the U.S. Congress ordered U.S. troops to begin leaving Iraq by Oct. 1. Bush pledged to veto the measure and neither the House nor the Senate passed the measure with enough votes to override him.
“Here are the Democrats calling you to withdraw or even set a timetable and you are not responding,” al-Sadr’s statement said.
Translation: “Why don’t you just do what the Democrats want already and give up so that I can come back to Iraq from my hidey-hole in Iran and get back to opposing the democratically-elected Iraqi government and setting myself up as Saddam’s successor?”
