Surge purges Moqtada
Surely this is a sign of the enormous failure of Bush’s “troop surge.”
Feb. 13, 2007 — While members of the U.S. House of Representatives take turns weighing in on President Bush’s planned troop surge in Iraq, the focus in Iraq is not on the arrival of more U.S. troops, but the departure of one of the country’s most powerful men, Moqtada al Sadr and members of his army.
According to senior military officials, al Sadr left Baghdad two to three weeks ago and fled to Tehran, Iran, where he has family.
It’s just a vacation. C’mon. He knows that Democrats are in charge now. He’s not actually running scared of our mercenary armies. He’s celebrating the surrender of U.S. forces led by Pelosi, Murtha, et al.
Al Sadr commands the Mahdi army, one of the most formidable insurgent militias in Iraq, and his move coincides with the announced U.S. troop surge in Baghdad.
Sources believe al Sadr is worried about an increase of 20,000 U.S. troops in the Iraqi capital. One official told ABC News’ Martha Raddatz, “He is scared he will get a JDAM [bomb] dropped on his house.”
Sources say some of the Mahdi army leadership went with al Sadr. ~abcnews.go.com
Surely not. The surge has been proclaimed a failure! Nancy Pelosi said so. Nothing good can come of it except more wasted lives of unlucky or unintelligent war criminals stuck in Iraq.