VetVoice: Condi calling al-Sadr a coward "provides a huge piece of propaganda" & "a rallying point"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Rice Calls Sadr a “Coward”; Echoes Bush’s “Bring’em On”

By: Bill W. on Monday, April 21st, 2008 at 6:38 AM - PDT

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/04/21/rice-calls-sadr-a-coward-echoes-bushs-bringem-on/



VetVoice:

Sitting bravely behind concrete walls while visiting Iraq this weekend, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice chose to channel her boss (circa 2003) by responding to Muqtada al-Sadr’s latest threat with an official “taunt” from the U.S. government:

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice mocked anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr as a coward on Sunday, hours after the radical leader threatened to declare war unless U.S. and Iraqi forces end a military crackdown on his followers. …(read on)

VetVoice’s’ Brandon Friedman goes on to explain that this “actually provides a huge piece of propaganda for Sadr, who can now use it as a rallying point for his followers who will view this as a challenge to their honor,” and just when the surge was beginning to work so well.

Spencer Ackerman has more.

[Zodiak]

1. The surge is not "beginning to work well"

It never worked in the first place, unless, of course, you want to relabel "surge" as "bribery and ethnic cleansing".

[leftchick]

6. I read it as sarcasm

anyone with a modicum of intelligence knows the surge was a fraud.

[Kurovski]

2. Kick. (nt)

[Kurovski]

3. Kick. (nt)

[FVZA_Colonel]

4. Damn it Condi, just stop talking already.

We already know you can't do your job, that's been clear since the truth about the summer of 2001 came out; don't damn us even further.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

5. It's just a flesh wound!!

Condi does Monty Python :eyes:

eek, too late to rec :)

Hiya Amerigo :hug: :pals:

[Perry Logan]

7. The neocons are the answer to the terrorists' prayers.