i heard, though nonsubstantiate, that yoo and others will be charged with war crimes.
btw, the torture memo does an endrun around the 4th amendment. how is it that this gets a free pass from the msm?
Posted by anthony at April 7, 2008 02:43 AMI thought Condi Rice wasn't interested in elected office. Now I hear she's gunning for VP? Fine, just keep running the "no one could have imagined" 9/11 testimony and others like it.
Posted by CG at April 7, 2008 05:26 AMtwo GI's killed in Green Zone attacks yesterday. When General of all General Petraeus comes before the Congressional committees this week, will either Clinton or Obama ask him why, if his Surge is so Successful, US soldiers are getting killed in what is supposed to be the safest square footage in Iraq?
Posted by T2 at April 7, 2008 06:04 AMApparently the Imperial sturmtruppen blasted Sadr City yesterday, killing and wounding hundreds of civilians in the congested quarters. Who knows what's goin' on today in Our Newest Colony....er Democracy.
Got to destroy the milita of the foremost nationalist figure in the country, who represents the poorest sections of Iraq society and openly opposes the permanent occupation. Yessir. Blasting 'em with heavy weapons and airpower will definitely "disarm" them. Yessir.
We are a morally bankrupt nation and people.
Posted by euzoius at April 7, 2008 06:19 AM"We are a morally bankrupt nation and people."
...Let the invasion of Poland begin!
Posted by TIKI AL at April 7, 2008 08:23 AMMaliki wins. Iraq wins. America wins. McOld wins.
NAJAF, Iraq, April 7 -- Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr will disband his Mehdi Army militia if top Shi'ite clerics including Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani order him to do so, a senior Sadr aide told Reuters on Monday.
Aide Hassan Zargani told Reuters that Sadr had told his representatives in both the holy Iraqi city of Najaf and also the Iranian city of Qom to ask top Shi'ite religious leaders for advice on whether to dissolve the militia.
"If they order the Mehdi Army to disband, Moqtada al-Sadr and the Sadr movement will obey the orders of the religious leaders," said Zargani, who was speaking from Iran.
The development came after Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki raised the stakes in a showdown with Sadr's millions of followers by saying they would be barred from elections later this year unless the Mehdi Army was dissolved.
Posted by peter at April 7, 2008 09:10 AM...they would be barred from elections later this year unless the Mehdi Army was dissolved.
Democracy in action!!
Posted by phidipides at April 7, 2008 11:55 AMThe Mahdi Army exists because the shi'ite clerics wanted the shi'ites to have some protection in the past from all the sunni bombings and killings. The militias are popular, that's what turds like peter can't understand.
I'll bet Sistani knows he score and isn't going to order just Sadr's militia disbanded. So this latest gambit elicting peter pinhead's daily Iraq Boner will go nowhere.
Sistani knows the whole purpose of these new "offensives" is to hamstring and block the Sadrists in the upcoming elections, it's not about "security". It's about control of who will win the elections and permit the occupation to continue indefinitely.
We're thinking that ISCI and Maliki will be more likely to go along with that and Sadr is less likely. Thus Sadr's movement of poorer, more historically oppressed shi'ite folks must be decimated and destroyed.
Maliki is taking us up on our offer to militarily determine the outcome of the next set of elections, just as a smart satrap of the imperial power would do....
Posted by euzoius at April 7, 2008 01:52 PMpants pissing peter: "Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr will disband his Mehdi Army militia if top Shi'ite clerics including Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani order him to do so...."
and how is that working out? the stoopid, it BURNS
Posted by Gay Veteran at April 8, 2008 10:12 AM