Moqtada al-Sadr calls for end of violence, national unity, and end of occupation

Do you think that with all of the money (billions to a trillion) that we have spent that we are going to pack up our marbles and go home without establishing our objectives... i.e., to have a democratic state in the region, which by the way has OIL that will round about affect our gas pump prices? McCain is correct, we will be there a very long time, and much to our own peril... Because Iran wants some control and influence there which greatly increases the danger... So true, all of our efforts could have gone toward "Building a self-sufficient UNITED STATES on clean technologies... but no, the big picture geographically is changing... Its corporate and cultural war Region by region, Americans will one day be forced to give up their old standard... The constitution, to make way for territorial expansion with Canada and Mexico... and one day all of south America to forge a peace from Islamic extremists... WE NEED TO BECOME SELF-SUFFICIENT, yet still be active around the globe. These moneyhungrypowerhungyguys are not going away... and people need to realize that our SuperStar SuperPower status is Gone with the wind. We can't build a large enough army with our current demographics to sustain all of the "Protection cites." We cannot afford the same kind of "peace" efforts that we have maintained in the past... We are in trillions of dollars of debt... We can be REPOSSED! Even Communist China has a hold on us... Wake up and fight for our country now people... IT IS MELTING!

forge a peace and get the frak out is what we need to do.

we leave, the country will fall into a civil war that will not end for years. the kurds are going to piss off the turks enough one of these days that they will invade, and the sunni's and shiites aren't going to be backing down any time soon. it may plateau but it will be another zimbabwe before this decade is out

So, diode, your country's moribund credibility is worth more than untold thousands of Iraqi men's, women's and children's lives?

by the way, diode, be a little more bright, pun intended, but no offense. if we leave, in the short run, it might get worse, but it'll plateau out. as far as oil, it's being stolen and corruption, and we're paying for it, instead of iraq. besides, all that $ we spent on this war, we could have spent on future technologies, that would get us off of the oil and all this war bullshit, life is complex, but people try to explain it in simple terms, no no.

easy break down on this one! think of your nearest ghetto neighborhood, if you were there, in someone's house, why the fuck would you be there? get out, go home, let shit sort its way out, those people are "programmed for life", get over it, get OUT. end of story, ignorant d-bags.

we can't just leave. that would destroy any credibility we'd possibly have left.

if they can unite, let them. but it won't change what we do for years to come. without oil our country will come to a grinding halt

Sounds good to me...

I say leave. Whatever problems we caused by going to war with Iraq are done and over with. We may have made a mistake, we saw that after a little while, we tried to fix it. It didn't work. So they can all go kill each other for there gods I'll enjoy hearing about how they killed each other off on the news maybe even look at some pictures of it on the internet. Those people are a lost cause. The worlds a better place with out them.

Ayatollah and President are not mutually exclusive, as we have seen in Iran in the past.

It's a good lead, but the story needs much more content. Al Sadr may desire the position of president, but according to news reports on NPR, he's been spending lots of time in Iran lately apparently studying in some sort of effort to become an ayatollah. As such he would have a lot more power than as president.

Find out more about that and you've got real news.

as if they weren't doing that already..just came back from Iraq....thanks for the update...wamp waaaaaamp!!

as they say, forgedda about it. Maliki won't agree to peace because the US doesn't want peace. it wants a reason to stay in the mulitbillion dollar bases it's built in the region. maybe i shouldn't say won't, but sadr already agreed to a ceasefire, and was enforcing it, for several months and maliki attacked him anyways, so i wouldn't hold your breath for peace.

it's a new world order folks, wake up and smell the bacon.

Oh gezzzzz, just when i was starting to get use to the idea of our troops being thtere decades upon decades. oh well i guess its time to pull out.... dam

al-Sadr doesn't want The United States occupying his country. This is news?

al-Sadr might be the president of iraq in the near future.

Politics seems to be no different regardless of what part of the world you are in.

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Just not as interesting as "truck nutz" I guess. :)

On a more sober note, I translate this as "Let's work together to run off the americans and then we can let the real bloodshed begin."

A major piece of news, yet only four views...!