Sad to say but if we don't go in there TO WIN all may be lost in short order and we could end up with another Viet Nam like Teddy Kennedy was spewing on about yesterday...

This is a terrible situation getting worse every minute we don't go in and clean it up.

Seems we are at a crossroads in Iraq. Do we follow through and finish this, which will cost many lives and much bloodshed OR do we walk away?

This guy has set the stage which is a failure on our part in and of itself (the fact we allowed this to happen). We now have someone else choosing the battlefield, a HUGE tactical mistake.

Worse yet, the battlefield favors this man and his crew by several orders of magnitude over our troops. Our technology is not as big of an advantage in house to house urban warfare when compared to the terrain knowledge/popular sympathy possesed by the enemy...

A critical stage has been thrust upon our forces, will they win the day?

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I think this cleric, Sadr, isn't as influential as the media makes him. He doesn't carry broad Shiite support. And, he's wanted for killing off another Shiite cleric. Now, if this was that Sistanti person, I think we'd be in a lot of trouble. Rather, a lot more trouble. Still, things are about to get ugly.

Valhall,

Interesting, thanks for the link.

The stage is being set !

dont be a pawn or sympathizer for the new world order!

look deeper my people into why this is all happening and you will see that money is controlling all theese forces and events and they are forming your opinions for you with theese events.

I can assure you that no attack will make america leave. If u do you would get a bad rep on the world age.. you bomb the hell outta a country then leave.

It's about time we took this chump out. If he wants to try and start some 3rd rate preemptive coup, that's his business and he'll see what it gets him. I honestly don't understand what took so long. I'm so tired of hearing "I'm a mullah and everyone needs to do what I say" from these pasty-faced, sunken-eyed, wannabes. The man reminds me of a chubby Ayatollah Khameni. Make no mistake, I fully respect those who work for the title and legitimately practice the religion in it's true form. I'm just tired of seeing what seems to be every Tom, Dick, and Harry in the middle east claiming the title of mullah and pushing for political power because they think it gives them that right. As Bremer said, "this man has a fundamentally inaccurate view of the future of Iraq".

Once again the same lesson is happening, you can conquer a country, but you can't occupy it forever. If the majority of the population doesn't want you there your gonna eventually get booted out. Attrition sucks...

Ah it's nice to see the American attitude fluourishing. Do what we say or else! I have watched this since the development. Of course Geroge Bush is going to say that he's evil. He has huge support around the country and Sadr's support will only grow larger. He wants to establish a Muslim Law type system. What is the harm in that. The Muslim laws are very strict. But of course Sadr does not like the United States because it is doing everything to suppress religious power in Iraq.

I can't remember his name, but another cleric was killed outside a mosque in Iraq last year. He was also very popular with the people. His death seemed a little suspicious as his support was getting larger and his stance was definitely Anti-American. Are we really interested in restoring Iraq to what the people want in a free democratically elected people by the people. Or, are we going to thrust a way of life onto the Iraqi people.

If we do the latter, the violence will never end and coalition soldiers will continue to die there. Let them elect who they want. If they get stuck with some #head, then it's they're own fault and will have to live with it. Like we live with Bush. Oh wait, he wasn't really elected either. Maybe another country is pulling an intelligence coup on the U.S.

Saddam kept all these people at bay, but the americans with 250,000 troops can't...