On May 24, 2007, at 8:40 PM, Leland F. Jackson, CPA wrote: > I've been reading about Sheik Mugtada al -Sadr, a shiite cleric, that > might provide President Bush with a solution to stabilize Iraq.
You're kidding right? > 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. <gasping-for-air/> > > 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. I can't believe this... > > 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. You're sick Leland. This must be what Malcolm Muggeridge was talking about when he authored his classic essay on "The Great Liberal Death Wish"... an essay that had profound influence on me early in my formative years of political involvement, as I saw precisely this mindset when I was going to college during the first Iraq war. http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/articles/MuggeridgeLiberal.php - - - The thing that impressed me, and the thing that touched off my awareness of the great liberal death wish, my sense that western man was, as it were, sleep-walking into his own ruin, was the extraordinary performance of the liberal intelligentsia, who, in those days, flocked to Moscow like pilgrims to Mecca. And they were one and all utterly delighted and excited by what they saw there. Clergymen walked serenely and happily through the anti-god museums, politicians claimed that no system of society could possibly be more equitable and just, lawyers admired Soviet justice, and economists praised the Soviet economy. They all wrote articles in this sense which we resident journalists knew were completely nonsensical. It's impossible to exaggerate to you the impression that this made on me. Mrs. Webb had said to Kitty and me: "You'll find that in the USSR Sydney and I are icons. " As a matter of fact they were, Marxist icons. How could this be? How could this extraordinary credulity exist in the minds of people who were adulated by one and all as maestros of discernment and judgment? It was from that moment that I began to get the feeling that a liberal view of life was not what I'd supposed it to be - a creative movement which would shape the future - but rather a sort of death wish. How otherwise could you explain how people, in their own country ardent for equality, bitter opponents of capital punishment and all for more humane treatment of people in prison, supporters, in fact, of every good cause, should in the USSR prostrate themselves before a regime ruled over brutal-ly and oppressively and arbitrarily by a privileged party oligarchy? I still ponder over the mystery of how men displaying critical intelligence in other fields could be so astonishingly deluded. - - - To relate his point to today's conflict, picture Pelosi smiling in person at the bloody dictator and supporter of terrorists, Bashir Assad, or speculating idly about a trip to visit the president of Iran, days before she blew General Patraeus off with a brief phone call. Or Michael Moore singing Castro's praises. Or Danny Glover or Cindy Sheehan fawning over a dangerous thug like Hugo Chavez. Or Leland gushing over a radical like Al Sadr. It boggles the mind. But there it is... again and again and again. - Bob > > 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 > > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ 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.
