Sadr threatens new uprising; Iraqi and US forces press attack

The Long War Journal ^ | 4/20/2008 | Bill Roggio

[reagan_fanatic]

I’d like to see a SF put a bullet right between those scummy, rotten teeth of his.

[Pistolshot]

There is either law and order or chaos.

Those are your choices, Mookie. If you choose chaos, you and those around you suffer, and there will be law and order by force.

Choose wisely.

[MNJohnnie]

Mook, Mook, Mookie, goo’bye
Mook, mook, Mookieie, don't cry
The chopper that come to takes
you out, no words can tell how glad it makes me
Burn burn , Mookie, and then
look for your virgins in ‘ell
Watch for that sniper, He'll never fail
If you don't get a bullet then maybe a drone
Tut, tut, Mookie, don't cry
Mook, Mook, Mookie, goo’bye!

[maine-iac7]

.........Viper

..

[ArrogantBustard]

I’d like to see a SF put a bullet right between those scummy, rotten teeth of his.

Only thing better would be having an Iraqi grunt do the job.

[AFPhys]

My understanding is that the responsibility for allowing him to live falls upon Sistani and possibly alMaliki, not upon anybody on the US side of the equation here. I’m sure that you and your friends could have wiped him out.

Thanks for your great service, and I greatly respect your opinions.

[maine-iac7]

I really hope Mookie makes good on his threat. By the time he takes it up, he may not have much of a militia left with which to do battle.

Like the other Miscreant "leaders", he sends everyone else out to fight and die while he sits far away in safety in another country.

I have confidence in the newly trained Iraqi Army = as seen in this recent action in Sadr City - with our Spec Opts for backup. (One thing they know for sure is the meaning of "GO-GO-GO!" We trained 'em good!)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=3tMDhVu-f2Q

[maine-iac7]

Take this guy out.

I think he knows we will now - should he dare show his face in Iraq. That's why he hides in Iran

[nikos1121]

“Muqtada al Sadr, the leader of the Mahdi Army, threatened to end the self-imposed cease-fire.”

Question:Why is it that you can’t circumcize this guy?

Answer:There’s no end to this pr*ck.

[onguard]

I’m all for taking this guy out, but I’m not sure I support the disarming of the population. There’s still a chance that someday the Iraqis will find that they took out a tyrant only to have another one take his place. They need arms to be able to make sure that doesn’t happen. Also, it just seems very dangerous over there. I’d sure want a gun.

[Red6]

In April 2004 Sadr began an uprising during the transition between 1AD and 1CD. 1AD was extended and elements of this division more or less chased him and his merry men all through Iraq, crushing them at every engagement. He attempted to use the holly shrines in Karbala as protection and after we peeled him even from there, he fled to Najef and then Kufa. The orders were simple “Dead or alive,” dead being preferred. This was also the time of the “transition of authority” to the Iraqi’s and Bremmer didn’t want to deal with the mess, because we really were creating a mess of cities, bad press, etc etc etc. We were eventually told to stand down, even though we had parked a track pad on his neck by then. Sadr screaming that he’ll negotiate, and the fact that Bremmer wanted the intense fighting to stop caused us to be called off, a decision that looked good in the short run. You need to understand that in April 2004 when this began we actually dropped a few 500 pound bombs in Baghdad; this wasn’t small what was going on and Bremmer didn’t want this sort of attention. Of course negotiations never lead to anything since they’re nothing but stalling or get out of jail free cards for someone like Sadr and eventually he began starting problems again, but Bremmer was long gone.

In 2003 without getting into to much detail, we had him literally in our sights and we could have taken him out, but at that time he wasn’t the big problem yet, and the feeling was that killing him would cause more problems than just dealing with him. Some even thought that we might be able to bring him into the process, which of course today appears like a joke. Sadr wasn’t immediately that big of a problem, but because of his fame (Through his father) the thought was that killing him would cause a giant $hit storm among the Shia population. Let’s just say, that in 2003, he and many others didn’t really know what we could do, in so far as targeting and the capabilities of certain ordinance and at that time he exposed himself in ways where had we wanted too, we could have lit him up. The point is that we had him in our sights on several occasions, but political considerations both internal to Iraq, our allies and ourselves have caused us to back off, which has only allowed this disease “Sadr,” to live on and do more damage.

You need to understand that while the Iraqi’s are taking control of the show; in 2003 – 2004 we were the show in town.

[AFPhys]

Thanks for your lesson. I thought that even back in 2004, that Sistani had been one of the major reasons that Sadr was not blasted. Sounds like I may be wrong about that, from your account of events, though I was aware of much of what you just wrote.

[Tennessean4Bush]

In 2003 this cockroach, whose thugs burned American bodies in Fallujah just weeks before...

Hmmm. Not sure I knew that Mookie, a Shiite leader, was calling shots in Fallujah, a Sunni stronghold. Could it be that you are getting him mixed up with someone else or am I the one who has it mixed up?

[river rat]

Hey Sadr!

Come out, come out wherever you are,
Come out, come out and die!

[jayef]

Come on Patsy . . . let us away! This one’s a looney!

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Tennessean4Bush.

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[SunkenCiv]

We think alike. ;’)