Pelosi and Sadr -- Same Struggle: The Unintentional Candor of the NY Times

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By Mark Finkelstein (Bio | Archive)
April 18, 2007 - 06:18 ET
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If Arnold Schwarzenegger, nominal Republican, wants to be allowed to run for president, why shouldn't Moktada al-Sadr be considered for a spot on the Dem ticket? After all, his views on U.S. withdrawal from Iraq put him firmly in the mainstream of the party of Pelosi The thought occurred to me while reading Moktada al-Sadr’s Gambit, an editorial in this morning's NY Times regarding the resignation of six members of al-Sadr's party as ministers in the cabinet of Prime Minister Maliki.

And what, according to the Times, was the gambit's goal?

"Mr. Sadr had his cabinet ministers resign in an attempt to bully the government into setting a timetable for the departure of American troops from Iraq."

Hmm. "An attempt to bully the government into setting a timetable for the departure of American troops from Iraq." Bullying the government? You mean like threatening to withhold funding for the military?

OK, so Nancy/Moktada, same struggle on withdrawal. And both are firmly opposed to firm action against Iran. Now if we can just get Sadr on record supporting socialized health care . . .

Mark was in Iraq in November. Contact him at mark@gunhill.net


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Take notice

April 18, 2007 - 06:37 ET by c5then

The enemy of democracy in Iraq and the Congressional democratic leadership are striving for the same goal?? Nancy and Harry, et al, better sit up and take notice! Al Sadr doesn't want the US troops out because he thinks that the Iraqi police and military are good enough to take over the job. He wants to take over Iraq with his own militia and set up a Shia controlled theocracy run by himself with assistance from Iran.

Well Mark, all I can say is

April 18, 2007 - 06:40 ET by liberal_bug_zapper

Well Mark, all I can say is that I'm becoming so used to the fact that I'm not even angry about it any more.

That being said, I am more convinced than ever that I need to try and run for office, or start a 527 group to begin combating the left.

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"It's not that they're [liberals] not aware of all the things we're aware of, it's that they need to reject them in order to remain in this five-year-old utopia that they've been told is the only hope for mankind." ~ Evan Sayet

Pelosi and Sadar are the Party of America Denigration.

April 18, 2007 - 07:59 ET by CT

Pelosi and Sadar are the Party of America Denigration.  This deserves the widest possible dissemination and we will have to do it, as the MSM will not.  Never has it been clearer where Pelosi and the Nutroots get their foreign policy positions.  Every reference to the Pelosi Palooza should include and her advisor Mookie al Sadar!

Be careful

April 18, 2007 - 08:35 ET by c5then

Only Nancy is alowed to call him Mookie!

You'll get "on the list".

;-)

Wonder if they prosecute for

April 18, 2007 - 09:18 ET by FastEd

Wonder if they prosecute for plagerism in Iraq - didn't he just lift the palooney line, verbatum? Begs the question - who is the enemy?

There is no sense in being stupid, if you can't prove it! - my dad V

Pelosi

April 18, 2007 - 09:59 ET by iveseenitall

Pelosi and her liberal buddies are on the side of our enemies.  It's more than just a differnce in policy. She's a traitor who might as well get out there and protest with Fonda, Penn, Sheehan, and the rest. The MSM would love it if she did.

NEVER,NEVER trust a liberal

President Pelosi

April 18, 2007 - 10:27 ET by goldenthroat

Iveseenitall - you are right on the money! What is frightening is that the language of terrorists and American liberals has now become inseparable - and "president" Pelosi is leading the charge by shmoozing with them!

Never dance on an empty stomach unless it's a liberal. 

Pelosi: The Manchurian Candidate

April 18, 2007 - 10:38 ET by Jack Bauer

Guys -- if I wasn't convinced that the GOP hasn't the faintest idea about getting down and dirty and actually becoming involved in something as grubby as astreet 'politics,' I'd be thinking this..

Pelosi is the Republican's Manchurian Candidate.

She's just so stupid and clodhopping, I keep thinking she must be have been manchurianed by KR in his deep bunker.

You'd think even someone that intellectually challenged could not possibly be dumb enough to attempt a shadow foreign policy with the leading terrorist enablers.

So no matter how much BIG MEDIA enables the Democrats, even they cannot hide the effortless vacuity of this woman, and therefore she certainly gives the Republicans a fighting chance at the next elections.

"This is the first time in history that fire has ever melted steel,"

Rosie O'Donnell, Ph.Dumbass, Emeritus Professor of Stupid Wimmn's Studies, Clown University.

Sadar - flip flopping

April 18, 2007 - 12:31 ET by Gary Hall

Sadar - flip flopping --

Off the top of my head, has not there been a rather constant course of flip flopping from al Sadar? One minute, he's on the out. Then he says they'll play. Then he orders up his loyalist thugs. Then they join in the government. Then he leaves the country. Then he'll talk. Then it's attack.

Speaking of missing voices.. where is al Sistani -- he's also bounced from side to side a few times.

and PS - Sadar probably does support socialized medicine - well, their style of socialized medicine (for my loyal followers only).