Posted on 06/22/2014 10:08:48 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
Thousands of Mahdi Army fighters loyal to Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr took part in a show of force in Sadr city on Saturday. WSJ's Matt Bradley reports from Baghdad.
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That’s a ragtag looking bunch.
This completely breaks my heart for these people.
My best hope for them is humane and easy deaths.
As I remember back when, those guys don’t look much worse than the ones we spent years and billions training.......
They are going to partition Iraq, the fix is in, else why in the world would Obama respond to blood thirsty terrorist with: “Well, Maliki should be more inclusive.”
If ISIS/ISIL goes much further south they run into Shiite majority populations. I don’t think they will take Baghdad or anything to the south unless there is some game changing event that weakens the government.
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