A Comment About

The Return of al-Sadr

June 5, 2007 - 1:00 am - by Omar Fadhil
Dan
2007-06-05 06:40:43

Hey, as long as Mookie is staying within the law, then don’t touch him. There’s nothing wrong with him meeting with elected leaders and telling them how he thinks they should run their respective provinces. Hell, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton do it all the time. BUT if it ever becomes evident … and by that I mean “evident” in the sense of being able to be proven in a court of law …. that Mookie is using his militia to illegally enforce his edicts, or if he openly agitates for violence, then come down on him like a load of bricks. I agree with Anthony above when he says that Sadr should have been taken out three years ago. It was a monumental mistake (one of many that the White House and the Pentagon have made) not to have done so. But doing so now would probably cause more harm than good. My bet is that his Iranian masters have told him to bide his time and that the U.S. will be gone within another year to 18 months. “Don’t give the crusaders an excuse to kill you.”