do you think Muqtada al-Sadr will go public

[southernleftylady]

and say that he gives up in public? which is what the iraqi "goverment" wants? and if he does will bushs numbers go up?

[napi21]

1. No and No.

I hear most of the media reporting that Al Sadr is well known for playing the system and lying. He said he will pull out of the city, but the American & Iraqi armies must leave first. Sounds like a stand-off again.

I doubt,ven if this does go through, it will effect shrubs #'s at all.

[LynnTheDem]

2. Nope.

He won't give up; he'd rather be a martyr like his dad. I don't blame him; I'd do likewise if America were invaded & occupied, my family & neighbors killed and "disappeared", tortured, raped; my property stolen, and people who hadn't even been in the USA for 30+ years were appointed by the invaders as a puppet government, telling me what I can or can't do and threatening to "chop off heads, chop off hands".

How come the rightwingnuts aren't screaming their foul little heads off that US TROOPS are SLAUGHTERING the SHI'ITES???

You know, the same SHI'ITES bush said we had to invade & occupy to LIBERATE from Saddam Hussein's oppression???

Oh duhhh me...it's OK to massacre Shia when WE do it, and even OK to help others do it, but it becomes not ok when others do it with our help and we 13 years later need that as an excuse to kill more Shia.