They religious rebels. They had no power under Hussein. Hell, Hussein
executed several of his family so the fighting with his group has
nothing to
do with Hussein's terrorists. In fact, who is the American pointman in
Falujah? One of Saddam's ex-generals!


Your point was...?

You don't get it?? Wow!


We are witnessing the fragmentation of Iraq along religious alignments.
Al-Sadr is a Shi'ite and he's structuring a post-American Iraq that will
either be broken up due to in-fighting between sects and clans (Kurds,
Sunnis, Shi'ites) or controlled by another tough guy Husseinoid.


I nominate John Kerry after his unsucessful whitehouse run.
He's a man for everyone, at least once.

Typical evasive rightwing failure to respond to the issue.



But when they're shooting
at you or setting landmines it doesn't make much difference what you
call
them.


It certainly does.


Tell that to they guy that has his legs blown off or the family
of the deceased.

That could be said of anyone on any side in any "war."


We must not confuse the situation we have created with
the one that went before. The Mehdi Army is not Saddam's army. We are
fighting new terrorists that we have created


We created them?


Yes... prior to our invasion, al-Sadr was just another kook fundie. The
removal of Saddam's repression enabled the present situation. We are
fighting people who want either dominance of all Iraq or a separate nation.
Why didn't someone predict this?

from people who were not
terrorists before we invaded and destroyed the poilitical integrity of
Iraq.


LOL !!!!! Political integrity !!! Thanks for that one !



Do you know what the word "integrity" means?

Agkistrodon


Do you? It's nice we have a middle east expert here!!!!



You see, you don't know! Integrity, in this sense, means unity. Iraq was
one whole but now it is fractionated by groups seeking power. "Integrity"
is related to the word "integer" which means... well, you tell us. Can you?
Don't look it up. Just answer from your "knowledge."

Agkistrodon