Top Moqtada Al-Sadr Aide Killed In US/Iraqi Raid

I don't know why they just don't do the same to Mookie. He does not look as if he's fleet of foot, after all.

U.S. military officials declined to confirm that Amiri was a Sadr aide, saying only that he had provided explosives for use against Iraqi and U.S. forces. Sadr officials said Amiri was an aide and a lawyer who ran an educational organization that helped orphans and impoverished children.

But of course he did, darling.

Here's an "exit plan" no one ever mentions.

1) Bush orders the military to be increasingly aggressive against al-Maliki's supporters, like al-Sadr.

2) This creates an untenable situation in Iraq.

3) The official, elected, constitutional Iraqi government is thus forced to request an American withdrawal.

4) We do so, having honored our commitment (to stay until we are asked to help no more), and we get to watch the Iraqis murder each other from afar on television.

I'm very torn between the the catastrophe of losing this war and the boon of watching Iraqis butcher each other for ten years.

I don't think it's a bad plan -- heads we win, tails we win. We get to take out all the bastards who need killing, and if that creates too much heat for our "ally" Maliki, well, then he gets to invite us out of his scorpions-in-a-jar shithole.

posted by Ace at 04:58 PM

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