Picture of the Day
Anybody remember Iraq?
BAGHDAD, Iraq, July 14 — The radical Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr said Friday that Iraqis would not “sit by with folded hands” while Israel struck at Lebanon, signaling a possible increase in attacks from his mercurial militia, the Mahdi Army.
In a written statement, Mr. Sadr also said that he considered the United States culpable in the conflict unfolding in Lebanon, since America was the largest foreign ally of Israel.
And, as if it needs to be said: US hopes of Iraq troop reductions deferred by sectarian violence.
(The picture is from a Mehdi militia rally in Kut, Iraq.)
posted by mikevotes at
5:48 AM
4 Comments:
I wonder if Sadr is telling his followers: "Let's go fight them there so we don't have to fight them here!"
By
Neil Shakespeare, at 11:08 PM
Did you hear how our President responded to a question about violence in the Middle-East?
"I thought you were going to ask about the pig."
By
REB 84, at 11:51 PM
Perhaps the Iraqis can rally around one call-to-arms - Israel, afterall.
By
Anonymous, at 12:46 AM
Neil, it's 6 AM, and I'm already giving you joke of the day.
Reb, I've even got a picture of said pig.
Romunov, so you're proposing a "greater satan" strategy for uniting Iraq.
Mike
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mikevotes, at 6:10 AM
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