Condi ridicules Sadr for cowardice

Source: LA Times via Truthout

Rice, in Iraq, Lashes Out at Muqtada al-Sadr
By Ned Parker
The Los Angeles Times

Sunday 20 April 2008


Baghdad - After long treating radical Shiite cleric Muqtada Sadr and his Mahdi Army militia gingerly, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice ridiculed him Sunday as a man who asks his followers to fight to the death while he resides in safety in Iran.
Sadr, who on Saturday threatened to declare a formal end to a cease-fire he ordered for his militia in August, was also described by U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker as running a weakened military organization.
The comments came during an unannounced visit by Rice to the Iraqi capital, in which she praised Prime Minister Nouri Maliki's ongoing crackdown on militias. Most of the fighting has been directed at elements of Sadr's militia, but until Sunday, American officials had taken pains to separate Sadr from his more radical followers, who the U.S. claims receive training and arms from Iran.
At least 700 people have died in the fighting in southern Iraq and Baghdad since the government offensive was launched last month.
American officials had long credited Sadr's truce for having helped reduce sectarian violence in Iraq since September, a period coinciding with the increased U.S. troop presence in Iraq that began in early 2007.
But on Sunday, Rice jettisoned the delicacy with which senior American officials have tiptoed around Sadr in the last year, lashing out at the firebrand cleric.
"He is still living in Iran," she said. "I guess it's all-out war for anybody but him.

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Guess this is Condi's "Bring it on" moment. Maybe she will be on a vailiant steed leading the US troops courageously into battle? Kind of like the neocon Joan of Arc....

"His followers can go to their death and he will still be in Iran."

Condi's behavior is as enlightened as it was when she missed the USSR going broke when she was a Soviet expert, or shoe shopping when people were drowning during Katrina.

Unbelievable that this woman has any credibility whatsoever at this point.

Typical republicon homelander crony. She is the worst Sec. of state ever.

Like chalk on a blackboard really.

That was not a racial slur BTW.

LOL

I may PM you about another group effort for the 2nd. Not sure as yet but it might be time.

Let me know if you want to collaborate again.

That was fun last december.

:hi:

Condi many, many times before having to go under oath in front of the 9/11 commission:

"I don't think anybody could have predicted . . . that they would try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile."

Then she said she "mispoke."

Oh the irony!! I guess bush is right there boots on the ground in Iraq , huh?

"At least I didn't go the ass-pimple draft-dodging deferment route like Lardass Limbaugh, or O'Reilly, or Hannitty, or get Five Freaking Military deferments like Cheney. I'm, um, a, a Genuine Republicon Chickenhawk Heeero. Just ask my Mom."

- Commander AWOL

(What Al Sadr is thinking about saying to Rice...)
:grr:
I really detest that woman and her stupid "surprise" visits to Iran under cover of darkness.
She is a coward.

in the dark night and straight into the safety of the Green Zone isn't cowardice itself.

DUers of a certain age may remember that as the ultimate threat on the childhood playground. Someone who was mortally insulted would hiss those words, and it was ON, baby! If you didn't show up, you were a pussy. I read these comments by Dr. Rice, and I'm immediately transported to those halcyon days of yore, when differences were settled in the field across the street from the school. Sometimes an actual exchange fisticuffs was involved, but it was usually settled with two hits: One kid hitting the other once, and the other hitting the trail.

But then we turned 12, and such taunts just seemed kind of, I don't know, childish.

:rofl: :rofl:




Trump was right ....

He just shrugs her off as a moron.

he's a ruthless thug who's power base is dependent on his lineage. just like shrub. it is likely he'll rule iraq when we leave.

He's playing a high-stakes game and doing pretty well. I think his power base may originally have been dependent on his lineage, but his anti-American line is bringing him more support from the Shia masses.

i said he'll rule iraq when we leave. i just don't think he's THAT smart. he's GWB smart.

Condi are you mad? That expertise in Russia really paying off for you huh? Series.