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September 19, 2004
Bush vs Al Sadr
This past April, GWBush called Al Sadr by name. Today, Al Sadr is not in jail. I happen to believe Moqtada Al Sadr to be a murdering scumbag jackleg Hamas symp and a wanker as well. I suppose I could be more kind and call him the leader of an insurgency, but I must confess to not have read quite enough of Juan Cole. Be that as it may, it upsets me that five months have passed and this asshat has not yet been arrested.
If anyone can provide a concise explanation to why this has not occurred - that our President has called for his head and he is still running around free with his ragtag outfit - please help me understand. I have a myth to maintain, which is that when the President calls you out, and the Marines are shooting at you, you lose.
I'll say it now. Al Sadr free is making GWBush look foolish.
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Didn't he call out Bin Laden too?
Posted by: Lester Spence at September 19, 2004 10:27 PM
Yeah but we know where Al Sadr is and we've got him surrounded.
Posted by: cobb at September 19, 2004 10:32 PM
Uh, is it when politicians start interfering with military objectives?
Posted by: Doug Campbell at September 20, 2004 12:03 AM
Seems to me you need to talk to Rove and Company. They're the ones who're thinking about how events in Iraq affect the vote in this election, which is ALL that matters to these folks at this point.
Posted by: Bill Benzon at September 20, 2004 04:16 AM
Concise explaination: Iraq is a soverign nation and they have not OK'd bagging him.
Longer explaination: I agree it is frustrating. There are few things I'd rather see then Al Sadr's head metaphorically mounted on a pike like that Uruk Hai in Two Towers. I think what we are seeing now, though, is a bit of Iraqi slow finesse. Some time, some how I believe he will get his, but the powers that be in Iraq probably feel that right now he is less a problem on Sistani's short leash than as a potential rallying cry for wannabe trouble makers. I, too, grow impatient for the hammer to fall, but ultimately he will become a test of the government's will and a measure of the Shi'ia willingness to be ruled by law. Perhaps because of his high visibility as such he is being saved for an oportune moment. I don't know. Most of the world, however, has a lot longer attention span than America, so I don't think he's been forgotten. He's just not our fish to fry right now.
Posted by: submandave at September 21, 2004 04:14 PM