Just a couple of sections from the story...you can read the whole thing at http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/04/20/iraq.main/index.html

The American propaganda machine just took yet another hit. They (or government mainly) try to make this a rightous war and want people to believe its making a differnce for "the good"


Well.....HOW GOOD IS THIS!!????


<<<Fawzi Tarzi, a Sadrist member of parliament, made his remarks as U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made an unannounced visit to Baghdad. His comments also follow airstrikes and firefights Saturday that left seven Shiite militants dead in Baghdad's Sadr City.
"Let it be known that disbanding the Mehdi Army will mean the end of [Prime Minister Nuri] al-Maliki's government, and therefore the siege of Sadr City and Shula should end immediately or all options are open to us," Tarzi said. "There is a fierce military and media campaign and a dirty political conspiracy planned and supported by the occupier against the Sadr trend.">>>


<<<Loudspeakers at Sadr City mosques announced al-Sadr's warning Saturday evening, calling for followers to fight the "occupier," a witness said.>>>


STOP SACRAFICING AMERICAN LIVES FOR OIL AND POLITICAL GAIN!!!!

It is nothing new. How can they like us? They did not ask us to remove Saddam, they did not ask us to "democricize them, they did not ask us to be there at all. We preemptively struck them and have since done to them the same power pull that Saddam did to them.

Interesting

It's almost like no one likes the war.

SDAR WARN OF WAR AGAINST US-IRAQI COMBINED FORCES TODAY.

That is ridiculous. We have done the same thing Saddam did to them? Ridiculous.

And, this article is coming from a supporter of Al Sadr, what did you expect? It's not a shocking revelation.

Who said the surge could be credited more to Sadr's cease fire than the surge???

Oh wait, it was me!!!!

I understand Dragoness and you are correct. This is NOTHING new. I simply posted it to shed a little light for those who are in denial and attempt to justify this travesty, saying things like "we are helping the Iraqi people" and or "the people appreciate what we have/are doing". They DON'T!

I want our troops OUT of that place where we should have NEVER been in the first place. And even another step, take those responsibe for this kind of manipulation,and drop them in the middle of Bagdad and tell them "you're on your own now!!!

I agree, I am concerned about how this country is going to pay for the cost of war ..billions a week..and our troops..it is sad.

Wow...Sadr loyalists you say? Amazing. I wonder why he would want us out?

I am sure that if we left, he would immediately disband his militia, as it wouldn't be needed any further, correct? I mean, after all, he has only the best interests of Iraq in his heart, right? Couldn't be anything else.

I mean, the guy is a young cleric. He couldn't possibly have any delusions of grandeur in taking over Iraq, or making it into a theocracy would he?
Nawww...that couldn't be it, he is a man of God, right? You know, the God of Abraham, the most of us believe in and all that?

But I am sure that he, like some of the people here, have the idea they understand *exactly* how things work in the real world, and would love nothing more to make it into their version of Camelot.

well if it is in the media...it MUST be true and unbiased