Reply #6: Do you know him personally?

[DulceDecorum]

You sound as if you once rode together in the trunk of a car Chalabi-style.

Moqtada Sadr appears to be paying the piper and he who pays the piper calls the tune. The Iraqi campaign to rid themselves of the armies of occupation is gaining momentum.

I especially like the part where they did NOT kill the hostages.
They just let you know that they damn well could have done so, but then they released them unharmed.
I guess some would call that a flip flop
but
this manouver shows an excellent comprehension of human endocrinology.
The adrenaline secreted by the adrenal glands of the hostages and those who feared for the hostages'safety causes the human brain to engage one of two mechanisms. The first respinse is FLIGHT and if that option is not available, then the person will then have to FIGHT their way out of the situation.
The Iraqis are faced with the second scenario but in giving the hostages the ability to withdraw, they have scored points globally. The adrenaline rush within observers will now focus itself upon those who sent the hostages into Iraq in the first place. Those corporations and governments will bear the brunt of the hostility and anger that would have been focussed on the people of Iraq had the hostages been killed.
Meanwhile, since the USMC INSISTS upon raising the national adrenaline level of ALL of those in Iraq,
and since the Iraqi have nowhere to run to,
the USMC is basically committing suicide.

There is a natural law. Physics tells us, that for every action, there must be an equal and opposite reaction. They hate us, we hate them, they hate us back. And so, here we are, victims of mathematics.
-- Londo Mollari, Babylon 5.



"Yesterday we heard this villain called Rumsfeld. He, of course, is a war criminal, and he is one of the worst of the American rulers. He said the American mercenaries and the British mercenaries, they are defending themselves inside Iraq. They are in a defensive position. They are engaged in self-defense. They are fighting a self-defense war inside Iraq. Well, congratulations, Mr. Villain, you are defending yourself inside our country. We will show you what defense means."

"Bush is a very stupid man. The American people are not stupid, they are very clever. I can't understand how such clever people came to elect such a stupid president."

"They are lying every day. They are lying always, and mainly they are lying to their public opinion."

"They want to deceive their people first because now they are in a very shabby situation."
-- Iraqi Information Minister Muhammed Saeed al-Sahaf