Al Sadr's 'defeated' militias:

[brennan]

Still fighting a month later.


Dozens killed in Baghdad clashes

Sadr City has seen the heaviest fighting for weeks



Thirty-eight Shia militia fighters have been killed in two days of fierce clashes in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, the US military has said.
Twenty-two militants died in a single incident, when US tanks opened fire to repel an attack on a checkpoint.
A US military spokesman told the BBC that an operation was going on in Sadr City to "clear the area of criminals" and militants firing rockets.
Sadr City is a Baghdad stronghold of radical Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr.
Militants had taken advantage of a sandstorm on Sunday to shell the heavily protected Green Zone, officials said. Local residents stayed indoors and aerial military operations by US forces were initially made difficult by the sandstorm, the BBC's Clive Myrie reports from Baghdad.
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He is calling it off because he doesnt want to die.

No more, no less.

The fact is, the free army of Iraq kicked his ass all over Basra this past week, with ONLY air support from the US...He just lost an all-out war against the army of Iraq. There's no two ways about it. He got his ass kicked.

He got pwned, end of story

Sadr threw in the towel.

So what's happening guys? 'Last throes', uh, again...?

 

[demokratickid]

It's an endless cycle, really. We just need to leave, becasue their will always be an Al Sadr to fight against there, so it will never end!

 

[Abaddon]

Yes, leave and let the nation be consumed by civil war and other nations grabbing a piece.. then its someone elses problem, not ours.

 

[Merkinball]

Yes, leave and let the nation be consumed by civil war and other nations grabbing a piece.. then its someone elses problem, not ours.

This is what we said about Afghanistan in 1988. Isn't funny how crap like that always seems to come full circle?

 

[skadistic]

So sadr had his troops attack and they lost. I wish they would attack more often so they will die.

 

[holy king]

So sadr had his troops attack and they lost. I wish they would attack more often so they will die.

those are the irakis you liberated. now you want them to die?

 

[Theige]

those are the irakis you liberated. now you want them to die?

The religious fanatics who incite violence, aka who we are talking about, yes.

 

[Patroklos]

So what's happening guys? 'Last throes', uh, again...?

You might have missed this seeing as your grasp of history is very weak obviously, but you usually have to defeat most enemies several times over before its all done.

You do realize there was fighting after Borodino, Gettysburg, Sedan, The Marne, Normandy, Inchon, Tet, etc. correct?

 

[brennan]

You do realize there was fighting after Borodino, Gettysburg, Sedan, The Marne, Normandy, Inchon, Tet, etc. correct?

You do realise there isn't any fighting after one side throws in the towel, correct?

 

[skadistic]

those are the irakis you liberated. now you want them to die?

Those are terrorists who bombed mosques and markets.

 

[brennan]

Surely they are brave freedom fighters, attacking collaborators?

 

[Merkinball]

You do realise there isn't any fighting after one side throws in the towel, correct?

If only real life was that simplistic.

 

[brennan]

If you recall; I was on the side saying that a month ago...

 

[Fëanor]

Those are terrorists who bombed mosques and markets.

Al-Qaeda in Iraq bombs mosques and markets, the Mahdi Army runs mostly death squads that outright murders or abducts and torures sunnies to death.

Thought they do also fight Al-Qaeda in Iraq.

 

[skadistic]

Al-Qaeda in Iraq bombs mosques and markets, the Mahdi Army runs mostly death squads that outright murders or abducts and torures sunnies to death.

Thought they do also fight Al-Qaeda in Iraq.

So. They also target sunni civilians. You know that whole civil war part. Who do you think is doing the killing?

 

[Berzerker]

If only real life was that simplistic.

Real life aint, slogans are...like Mission Accomplished

 

[skadistic]

Real life aint, slogans are...like Mission Accomplished

You mean the banner that indicated that the particular ship flying that banner had indeed accomplished its mission? Or are you talking about the banner that the dems thought said "war over"?

 

[JollyRoger]

You mean the banner that indicated that the particular ship flying that banner had indeed accomplished its mission? Or are you talking about the banner that the dems thought said "war over"?

It wasn't the dems giving that spin to the banner on that day. On the threads here, it was the righties spinning it as the end of the war.

 

[Berzerker]

You mean the banner that indicated that the particular ship flying that banner had indeed accomplished its mission?

You mean the captain meant to exclude everyone else in the effort? Even Bush who was onboard to declare victory and the end of "major" hostilities? No no, the captain did that all on his own to congratulate only his crew. C'mon, a little logic goes along way

 

[demokratickid]

It wasn't the dems giving that spin to the banner on that day. On the threads here, it was the righties spinning it as the end of the war.

Boths sides want the end, but are unwilling to agree on HOW it should end, very frustrating...