al-Sadr's Followers Refuse to Disband Militia in Iraq

[Hissyspit]

Source: Associated Press

al-Sadr's followers refuse to disband militia in Iraq
2008-04-20 15:13:32
By ROBERT H. REID Associated Press Writer

BAGHDAD (AP) — Followers of hardline cleric Muqtada al-Sadr raised the stakes Sunday in the showdown with Iraq's government, refusing to disband their militia as the U.S. military reported an "uptick" of fighting in the Iraqi capital.

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, meanwhile, assured visiting Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that he will not back down in his confrontation with Shiite militias, even as mortar shells fired from Shiite areas struck the U.S.-protected Green Zone.

In a sign of that resolve, Iraqi soldiers took control Sunday of the last stronghold of al-Sadr's Mahdi Army militia in the southern city of Basra, where an Iraqi offensive last month triggered the current wave of Shiite fighting.

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Al-Sadr's followers, who control 30 of the 275 parliament seats, rejected that demand Sunday and instead called for an end to U.S.-Iraqi military operations in Sadr City, the Baghdad stronghold of the Mahdi Army, and Shula, another Shiite district of the capital. "All must know that disbanding the Mahdi Army means the end of al-Maliki's government," Sadrist lawmaker Fawzi Akram told reporters.

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[Skink]

1. We forgot to impeach Bush...

Oy Vey.

[Hissyspit]

3. Nobody forgot.

Everyone in this country was well conscious.

But point taken.

[Arctic Dave]

2. You can have my gun when you pry it from your anal orifice.

[NCDem60]

4. Why should they? After all

a well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

[Igel]

5. Yeah, but notice what that *doesn't* say.

"Numerous well regulated militias, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

We tend to frown upon having multiple militias in a single state the US. Some people think it's a quaint custom in Lebanon, esp. when they all decide to engage in target practice with each other like they did in the '80s, to have numerous sectarian militias. I never have.

Most don't like it in Afghanistan, where the militia leaders aren't religious, by and large, and instead have secular titles: warlords.

[saigon68]

6. And since Malaki has his own militia "The US ArmY'

I don't blame Sadr one bit.

Maybe the US can kill a few hundred more children this week.

That should interest their mothers in the twin concepts of "FREEDOM & DEMOCRACY"

[tomtomtom]

7. kill children?

on purpose? Not even bush would do that!

[NickB79]

8. LOL

You forgot this :sarcasm:

[saigon68]

9. OOPS and before I could even answer your ass-clown statement

And folks I didn't alert on this poster, he/she must have gone off track somewhere else