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Assassinate Al-Sadr?

October 29, 2006 | By Sniper One |

Muqtada Al-Sadr is the Shia strong man in Iraq. He is anti-American, holds the power over the Shia militias, and is generally a serious hemorrhoid. He also happens to be a member of the new Iraqi government.

Over the past two weeks I’ve heard a couple of calls for him to be killed. It is believed that he has become a liability to the US, by being the primary cause of sectarian violence.

If the military leaders on the ground feel that Al-Sadr has to go, then by all means, take him out with all due prejudice.

However, I’m not sure it’s the men on the ground who are calling for Al-Sadr’s removal.

(AINA) By Ralph Peters - Heritage Foundation

For now, Maliki and his pals are using our troops to buy time while they pocket our money, amass power and build up arms. But they’ve written us off for the long term.

Does that mean we should leave?

Not yet. Iraq deserves one last chance. But to make that chance even remotely viable, we’ll have to take desperate measures. We need to fight. And accept the consequences.

The first thing we need to do is to kill Muqtada al-Sadr, who’s now a greater threat to our strategic goals than Osama bin Laden.

We should’ve killed him in 2003, when he first embarked upon his murder campaign. But our leaders were afraid of provoking riots.

Back then, the tumult might’ve lasted a week. Now we’ll face a serious uprising. So be it. When you put off paying war’s price, you pay compound interest in blood.

We must kill - not capture - Muqtada, then kill every gunman who comes out in the streets to avenge him.

Our policy of all-carrots-no-sticks has failed miserably. We delivered Iraq to zealots, gangsters and terrorists. Now our only hope is to prove that we mean business - that the era of peace, love and wasting American lives is over.

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