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I couldn't agree more. Perhaps in the long run this is a blessing so to speak. Better to hammer the living day lights out of the Mahdi army now then let this crap continue into a long protracted limited insurgency.
I continue to bore us all by saying for the past three years that Sadr City and the other key cities that harbored Sadr forces should have been cordoned off and almost starved until every dwelling and other potential place to store weapons and bombs etc., where literally found and destroyed as required.
And of course to boot, every firearm confiscated, overriding the Iraqi law that allows them to bear arms.
Arabs only listen when a strong arm goes against them. I don't give a damn if their cultural roots are different then the wests. Back in the old wild west, criminal gangs had to be taken out by force. Many where killed. We have be pussy footing around to damn much. People must earn the right to be treated equal under the law. These people have not yet, as a nation, shown their ability to live in peace under the law, so use the law to the country's advantage. Kill all the flaming assholes off as soon as possible, so that those willing to embrace a new peaceful Iraq can then take over.