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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
From the article linked just above:

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While the announcement was welcomed by the Iraqi government as helping its effort to "impose security" in Basra, the southern oil city, it appeared to conflict with other comments by Mr. Sadr, who told Al Jazeera Saturday that the US would be "defeated just the way they were defeated in Vietnam" and that his militiamen were on the path of "liberation."

It was too early to tell whether the statement, read in the holy city of Najaf, would end fighting in the south or in the capital. But contrary to initial reports, the US and Iraqi government campaign against the Mahdi Army, say officials and analysts, is a carefully coordinated effort by the US and Sadr's Shiite rivals to deal a decisive blow to the outspoken cleric.

12 posted on 03/30/2008 5:05:22 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Grandaughters!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Good afternoon.
“defeated just the way they were defeated in Vietnam”

So Mookie knows all about the DemocRATs in our Congress. And here I thought he was just another ignorant 7th century throwback thug

Michael Frazier

16 posted on 03/30/2008 5:12:40 PM PDT by brazzaville (No surrender, no retreat. Well, maybe retreat's ok)
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