April 29, 2004

Eva Braun reporting....
Posted by Jon Henke

Life lesson: when writing for a site called "antiwar.com", you have to put a nice fresh layer of shinola on some real pieces of shit.

US Fatwa Turns Sadr From Community Leader to Insurgent
Suffice it to say, the rest of the article paints a picture of a civic minded fellow who wants democracy, builds hospitals, staffs the police force, and just generally cleans up the mess. You know, the Iraqi Mayor Giuliani.

That is, if Mayor Giuliani had sent the NYPD into SoHo to kill everybody.

Yeah, strangely, antiwar.com failed to mention that this "community leader" had done things like this...

On the morning of March 12, a Friday, a group of about 20 militiamen went to the village "without police knowledge," Zeid said. They belonged to the Mahdi Army, a force organized last year by Moqtada Sadr, a young, militant cleric who caters to the poor and disenfranchised of Iraq's Shiite majority and has maintained a relentlessly anti-occupation stance. Zeid said a fight broke out, and residents killed one of Sadr's followers. The Mahdi Army retreated. In the late afternoon, it returned -- with more than 100 men.
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Hours into the battle, he said, police intervened and helped evacuate the residents. Once they left, looters set upon the village and, through the night, systematically stole everything of value. Days later, the village was largely rubble.
He's also called for attacks against US troops, aligned himself with Hamas and Hezbollah and wants to set up an Islamic theocracy. So, you know....just the sort of Good Guy who passes for a "community leader" at antiwar.com.

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Just guessing.....they think Bush = Hitler, right?

Posted by: shark at April 29, 2004 09:15 AM

No, Bush isn't Hitler. Bush doesn't speak German; heck, he doesn't speak English particularly well.

Fallujah is a classic example of how this appointed administration hasn't clue one about what they're doing.

Yesterday, Donnie Rumsfeld tells everyone that we're fighting Baathists in Fallujah. This morning, we're told that we're going to turn Fallujah over to an Iraqi force headed by a Baathist General in Saddam's old Army.

It'd be funny if not for the fact we're losing US troops because this appointed administration has no idea and no plan.

Posted by: jadegold at April 29, 2004 09:41 AM

what happened jadegold, John Cole banned you from posting on his site and now you're trolling this one?

Posted by: shark at April 29, 2004 11:31 AM

AntiWar.com is actually a very heavy libertarian-leaning site. They're not interested in peace as much as they are interested in having the smallest possible government, and one that has zero involvement in foreign affairs. They're also frequent defenders of Slobodon Milosevic, and while I don't recall them ever actually coming out for Hussein, it's no suprise that they're only interest in Sadr is in painting him as a victim of big government.

JadeGold, you're just as convincing as ever.

Posted by: Christopher Luebcke at April 29, 2004 11:52 AM

Ah, forgot my real point, which is that to them Bush != Hitler, but Bush == Big, Intrusive Government.

Posted by: Christopher Luebcke at April 29, 2004 11:54 AM

Yeah - they're the very definition of paleo-libertarian. Thus, that Justin Raimando tool.

While I can understand the desire to have a non-interventionist, even isolationist, foreign policy - though I disagree with it - it seems they go much farther than that. They sometimes become apologists for the terrorists and extremists we fight.

Posted by: Jon Henke at April 29, 2004 12:00 PM

That, and the fact that Sadr is wanted by Iraqi authorities for:

-- Embezzling religious funds from several mosques
-- Setting up illegal courts and prisons
-- Doing nothing as his guards murdered an Iraqi family,

and to top it all off....

-- SOLICITING THE MURDER OF A FELLOW CLERIC (Abdul Majeed al-Khoei)

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,9302796%255E601,00.html

Al-Sadr is not a community leader. He's a thug. We're right to go arrest his sorry ass. End of story.

Posted by: Thief at April 30, 2004 04:05 PM