I get a very sick feeling that Bush is going after al-Sadr...

[trumad]

If that happened, we'd go from 3000 casualties to 6000 very quickly....

[mike_c]

1. I think he will, too....

eom

[majorjohn]

2. Sadr is just a thug

Getting rid of him will not change anything.

[karlrschneider]

3. Perhaps, but getting rid of Bush the thug would change quite a few.

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[EFerrari]

5. Well, no. The insurgency became visible pretty much after

we shut down his paper. Remember that -- it was a long time ago.

The guy may be a thug or not, he's got a lot of influence.

[jwirr]

7. Thug or no thug he has 60,000 troups behind him.

[magellan]

4. Maliki would have something to say about that

Not that it would matter. But it would be The End, finis, of the puppet Iraqi gov't and the pretense of democracy. And considering DC works on a tombstone mentality, the result would be the final horror that gets us out of there at long last.

Why do we always have to hit rock bottom and lose so many lives before the government wises up?

[EFerrari]

6. If the Pentagon lets him, then they're even more nuts than I think they are.

It will be the very last straw.

And, then, what? We trust these geniuses to get our people out? :(