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How Moqtada al-Sadr Could Take Down Iraq’s Government
The Daily Beast ^ | May 01, 2016 | Michael Weiss

Posted on 05/02/2016 7:36:47 PM PDT by Trump20162020

Supporters of the powerful Shia cleric stormed Baghdad’s parliament, leaving legislators quivering in the basement and Iraq on the edge of political chaos.

Hussain Jassim refused to leave the Green Zone, once considered the impenetrable citadel at the heart of Baghdad, until his leader Muqtada al-Sadr ordered him to do so. “We have entered parliament and we have broken it’s prestige in front of people because they are thieves, they deserve for that to happen to them,” Jassim told The Daily Beast.

He was one of thousands of angry protestors who on Saturday raided the Iraqi legislature, chasing MPs out of their own seats in government, and often assaulting or denouncing those not aligned with al-Sadr trying to run away from the melee. “We saw them fleeing from us,” Jassim said.

(Excerpt) Read more at thedailybeast.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: alsadr; iraq; moqtadaalsadr

1 posted on 05/02/2016 7:36:47 PM PDT by Trump20162020
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To: Trump20162020

They should’ve “dealt” with him early.


2 posted on 05/02/2016 7:39:02 PM PDT by paintriot
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To: Trump20162020

Did you know that 4th putt on the 7th hole almost went in?

3 posted on 05/02/2016 7:43:08 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: paintriot

I agree. How is Mookie not dead yet?


4 posted on 05/02/2016 7:52:33 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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To: Snickering Hound

What, pray tell, is that knot on the back of his left calf?


5 posted on 05/02/2016 7:55:53 PM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: paintriot
"They should’ve “dealt” with him early."

Not exactly prophetic, but...

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My date on this is 26 OCT 2006...

6 posted on 05/02/2016 7:57:19 PM PDT by TXnMA ("Allah: Satan's current alias. "Obama": Allah's current ally...)
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To: Trump20162020
Once again, the problem is the false religion of Islam, based on a false “prophet” who never once prophesied, was a murderer, thief, epileptic, child rapist and other things untold. But nothing will change as everywhere this false religion has gone, havoc and brutality has resulted. 'Nugh said.
7 posted on 05/02/2016 8:03:51 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: Trump20162020

“We have entered parliament and we have broken it’s prestige in front of people because they are thieves, they deserve for that to happen to them,”

http://www.usdebtclock.org

CONgre$$? Was the confused collectivist talking about CONgre$$?

Socialism Is Legal Plunder - Bastiat

Victims of Lawful Plunder

Men naturally rebel against the injustice of which they are victims. Thus, when plunder is organized by law for the profit of those who make the law, all the plundered classes try somehow to enter — by peaceful or revolutionary means — into the making of laws. According to their degree of enlightenment, these plundered classes may propose one of two entirely different purposes when they attempt to attain political power: Either they may wish to stop lawful plunder, or they may wish to share in it.

Woe to the nation when this latter purpose prevails among the mass victims of lawful plunder when they, in turn, seize the power to make laws! Until that happens, the few practice lawful plunder upon the many, a common practice where the right to participate in the making of law is limited to a few persons. But then, participation in the making of law becomes universal. And then, men seek to balance their conflicting interests by universal plunder. Instead of rooting out the injustices found in society, they make these injustices general. As soon as the plundered classes gain political power, they establish a system of reprisals against other classes. They do not abolish legal plunder. (This objective would demand more enlightenment than they possess.) Instead, they emulate their evil predecessors by participating in this legal plunder, even though it is against their own interests.

It is as if it were necessary, before a reign of justice appears, for everyone to suffer a cruel retribution — some for their evilness, and some for their lack of understanding.

The Results of Legal Plunder

It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder.

VERY interesting development inside Baghdad, Iraq. History unfolding. Thanks for posting.


8 posted on 05/02/2016 9:27:25 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: PGalt

We shouda’ shot the fat pig when we had the chance.


9 posted on 05/02/2016 9:52:28 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

“We shouda’ shot the fat pig when we had the chance.”

Speaking of fat pigs (apologies to pigs), here’s another MoBro for the double barrel…

I’ve often wondered how/why is this totalitarian still alive?

https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=hassan+nasrallah&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8


10 posted on 05/02/2016 10:08:01 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: Trump20162020

Mookie is the Benny Blanco from the Bronx of Iraq.


11 posted on 05/02/2016 11:21:14 PM PDT by BCrago66
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To: Trump20162020

Only takes one good sniper to remove Al-Sadr.


12 posted on 05/03/2016 1:36:30 AM PDT by octex
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To: paintriot
They should’ve “dealt” with him early.

One of the few cases where "Bush's fault" is absolutely, indubitably, one hundred percent true.

13 posted on 05/03/2016 4:55:15 AM PDT by Smokey Stover
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