I've been reading about Sheik Mugtada al -Sadr, a shiite cleric, that might provide President Bush with a solution to stabilize Iraq. Al-Sadr is the leader of the 2nd biggest army in Iraq behind the US lead forces. He is a moderate that wants to unify Iraq, and stop all the killing. Al-Sadr is strongly opposed to building walls in Iraq to divide the country along Sunni, Shiite, and Kurd factions.
Al-Sadr has been working on driving the radicals out of his armies, including anyone involved in death squads, but especially he would like to eliminate anyone affiliated with al-Qaeda. Al-Sadr doesn't like al-Qaeda, because al-Qaeda acts like a magnet holding US forces in country, and because al-Qaeda would pose a threat to Al-Sadr leadership of the Mahdi Army Al-Sadr has been in talks with Sunni leaders both within Iraq, as well as outside the country like Syria and Iran. Al-Sadr is building alliances, increasing his military and political power and influence, and is becoming very popular. Al-Sadr seem to be much stronger than Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, and would have a much better change of unifying Iraq and holding her together over the long haul. Al-Sadr is not anti-American but he is anti-occupation, so if he came to power, he would, without doubt, insist that the US withdraw forces from Iraq. If president Bush really wanted to help Iraq and get our boys out of harms way, he should consider backing Al-Sadr in his efforts to rid Iraq of al-Qaeda and unify all Iraqis within a moderate Iraqi government. Below is a link to more: http://americanranger.blogspot.com/2007/05/muqtada-al-sadrs-new-strategy.html or http://tinyurl.com/3ycmn5 Regards, LelandJ _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
