Fox News -- S Iraq grows quieter as Sadr negotiates w/ IGC

[sspiderjohn]

Really not much more said -- Just that Sadr is negotiating with members of IGC and the Shi-ite uprising is quietening down -- I'll look around and see if I can find a link to a written story.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

1. I'm not sure I would expect much real news from Fox News.

[madrchsod]

2. aljazeera has more on the issue

fox had to get it cleared from the whitehouse....

[Chicago Democrat]

3. They all need to rest and get more ammo - you ain't seen nothing yet

The US needs to back off and get out. Any other result is a non starter. Welcome to the end game.

[PfcHammer]

4. READ: potty break while waiting to see if Halliburton makes it in

[Chicago Democrat]

5. Who thinks Bush will kill Sadr? Remember who he is....

OK its not quite 1945, yet.... I'd say its 1942 and Fallouja is our Stalingrad.

Of course Hitler totally made the wrong decision in 1942 by forcing the battle there mainly for ego reasons. Gee my money is that Bush is as bad at military strategy as Hitler.

[legin]

6. If this is true

then I think it could be a mistake. It's Sadr's rebellion that is keeping Falluja from being over-run.

You can keep a country the size of Russia under control with about 10,000 well trained, well-armed troops, *IF* people rebell in a serial order. The 10,000 troops transport from one rebellion to the next putting them down with superior numbers to that locality. If every body rebells at once then the mere 10,000 troops look very silly.

This is why the Red Army beat the White Army during the Russian Civil War. The White Army were made up disparate factions who did not really communicate with each other. The different factions launched offensives at different time. So the Red Army would defeat one White Army attacking from say the south, hop on the train, zip across the country, and defeat an army attacking from the north, etc, etc.

[legin]

9. And it is Falluja that is stopping Sadr

from being over-run.

And it is why the Afghan warlord is having such an easy time of it acquiring territory in Afghanistan.

And it's why Bin Laden is thinking that this might be a good moment to zip off to Sudan.

If you are going to go for it, you all go for it at once, because the u.s. can bring superior firepower to bear on an individual locality, but it can't do it to all of them at once.

[DrWeird]

7. Fox News: We have driven the enemy from the Baghdad airport.

All is well.

[goforit]

8. I do believe Bremer was responsible for the temp. cease fire!!!

Smartest decision he's made so far!!!

God forbid Fox mention this!!!

All this violence just because their paper was taken away!!!

I think we need better negotiators with psychological backrounds!!

[sspiderjohn]

10. The only recent link I can find that Sadr is negotiating with IGC

http://www.abc.net.au/ra/newstories/RANewsStories_1085103.htm

Says only that "Iraq's Governing Council has begun negotiations with insurgent groups . . . " and "Members of the Governing Council say they've also been speaking to the rebel cleric Muqtada al Sadr. . ."

No mention of a quietening of hostilities in the South of Iraq, however, as reported on Fox, so these negotiations may not be going well.

I did find that Sadr met with IGC member al-Mohammedawi on Friday, right before Mohammedawi resigned from the IGC, and CNN reports that Sadr gave a list of demands to the coalition forces.