Sadr calls on the Mahdi Army and it’s infiltrated supporters in the Iraqi military to NOW rise up against the US military. Sadr calls upon hundreds of thousands of his supporters to hold massive protests against the US presence in Iraq…protests which the Iraqi Army is trying to prevent…and will likely lead to rioting and killings of those rioters by US Forces.

Ten US forces were reported being killed in Iraqi already this weekend…with delays in reporting the dead and injured being a regular occurrance.

And Lieberman thinks that this is PROOF the surge is winning????

Oh, I see, we’ve finally created a figure of National Unity…someone that both the Shiites AND SUNNIS can now look to!

Al-Sadr commands an enormous following among Iraq’s majority Shiites and has close allies in the Shiite-dominated government. The statement Sunday carried his seal and was distributed in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, where the cleric called for an enormous demonstration to mark the fourth anniversary of Baghdad’s fall.

“You, the Iraqi army and police forces, don’t walk alongside the occupiers, because they are your archenemy,” the al-Sadr statement said.

He urged his followers not to attack fellow Iraqis but to turn all their efforts on American forces.

“God has ordered you to be patient in front of your enemy, and unify your efforts against them — not against the sons of Iraq,” the statement said.

Al-Sadr apparently issued the statement in response to three days of clashes between his Mahdi Army militiamen and U.S.-backed Iraqi troops in Diwaniyah, south of Baghdad.

In Washington, Sen. Joseph Lieberman an independent of Connecticut, said al-Sadr’s words showed the American troop surge was working.

“He is not calling for a resurgence of sectarian conflict. He’s striking a nationalist chord. We’re going to have to watch him closely. He’s not our friend. … He’s acknowledging that the surge is working,” the senator, a strong backer of the war, said on CNN’s “Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer.

I guess Lieb is trying to prove that he’s more of a belligerent idiot than McCain!

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US offered to scare Iran
Published: Saturday April 7, 2007

The United States reportedly offered to mount aggressive air patrols over Revolutionary Guards bases during Iran’s stand-off with Britain but was rebuffed by London.

Citing unnamed diplomatic sources, The Guardian newspaper said that Pentagon officials offered a series of military options, but Britain told them to keep out of the affair and instead tone down armed forces activity in the Gulf.

Short version of this story:

W: STFU

The probability of that event is undeniably increasing, neh? :)

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