Al Sadr gets it.

[Scanker19]

BAGHDAD (AP) — An anti-American cleric is urging his followers to stop attacking U.S. troops in Iraq so that their withdrawal from the country isn't slowed down, a call meant to ramp up pressure on Baghdad's political leaders who are considering asking some American forces to stay.
In a statement posted on his website, Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr told his militias to halt attacks against U.S. forces till the withdrawal is finished at the end of the year as required under a security agreement between Washington and Baghdad.
"Out of my desire to complete Iraq's independence and to finish the withdrawal of the occupation forces from our holy lands, I am obliged to halt military operations of the honest Iraqi resistance until the withdrawal of the occupation forces is complete," al-Sadr said in the statement, posted late Saturday. Sadrist lawmaker Mushraq Naji confirmed the statement on Sunday.
However, al-Sadr warned that "if the withdrawal doesn't happen ... the military operations will be resumed in a new and tougher way."
The statement followed last week's notice by U.S. officials in Baghdad, announcing the start of the withdrawal.
There are currently about 45,000 U.S. forces in Iraq.
However, U.S. and Iraqi leaders are currently weighing whether some American troops should remain past the Dec. 31 deadline as Baghdad continues to struggle with instability and burgeoning influence from neighboring Iran. Last month, Iraqi leaders began negotiating with U.S. officials in Baghdad to keep at least several thousand troops in Iraq to continue training the nation's shaky security forces.
Officials in Washington say President Barack Obama is willing to keep between 3,000 and 10,000 U.S. troops in Iraq. But with fewer than four months before the final deadline, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and parliament still have not indicated how many U.S. troops Iraq might need, how long they would stay, or exactly what they would be doing.
After more than eight years of war, many weary Iraqis are ready to see U.S. troops go, and staunchly defend their national sovereignty against an American force they see as occupiers. Al-Sadr's followers vehemently oppose a continued U.S. military presence in Iraq, and walked out of last month's meeting where political leaders decided to open the talks on having American troops stay.
"Our goal has been always to fight the occupiers because they are still in our country," Naji said Sunday.
Still, other Iraqi officials privately say they want American troops to continue training the nation's security forces for months, if not years, to come. The president of Iraq's northern Kurdish region this week pleaded for U.S. forces to stay to ward off threats of renewed sectarian violence.
Many Iraqis — both Sunnis and Shiites — share that fear.
"As for me, and the sheiks of Nasiriyah, we want the U.S. Army to stay," Sheik Manshad al-Ghezi of the southern Shiite city of Nasiriyah said in a recent interview. "We are afraid of civil war. All the parties and groups in Iraq are armed and the Iraqi Army cannot manage to bring security to Iraq and stop the fighting among these parties."
In another statement posted Sunday, a Shiite militia controlled by Iran jeered calls for U.S. troops to stay. The group ridiculed a warning last week by Kurdish regional President Massoud Barzani that raised the specter of civil war if American forces leave Iraq. Kurds have long depended on U.S. troops to protect them, going back to Saddam Hussein's rule.
"When the (U.S.) occupation gets out of the country with his agents, the Iraqi nation will be unified," an unidentified leader for Kataib Hezbollah, which operates in Iraq, wrote on the militia's website. "Whoever calls for keeping the occupation is linking his destiny with the occupation and has sold himself as cheap, and he should leave the country with his masters."
Violence has dropped dramatically across Iraq from just a few years ago, but deadly bombings and shootings still happen every day.
Late Sunday, police said a roadside bomb targeting a security patrol killed a passer-by and two police in Baghdad's eastern Shiite Shamaayah area. Three more police were among eight others who were wounded, officials said.
The casualties were confirmed by a medic at Imam Ali hospital. Both spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release the information.

[Bailey Guns]

Just read that story. Interesting.

It's time we left. If the Iraqi's can't handle their problems by now, we probably can't help them anyway.

[El Caballo Loco]

This has been the name of the game since that mother fucker popped back up into the picture.

"However, al-Sadr warned that "if the withdrawal doesn't happen ... the military operations will be resumed in a new and tougher way."

Really? No shit. They know certain elements aren't leaving anytime soon and they are just dying for the opportunity to hit us with force. Since Sadr came back, nothing slowed down either. If anything, the boogers started ramping back up their attacks seeing a strong militia leader openly announce his presence and looking for a spot in office to boot.

Nothings changed but damn, even the majority of the Americans over there and the majority here still haven't realized this.

These statements by Sadr are from January by the way.

[BPTactical]

OK- Taliban lays on the DL until we are pulled out. We leave and the defecation hits the rotary oscillator.









Then what?

[Bailey Guns]

OK- Taliban lays on the DL until we are pulled out. We leave and the defecation hits the rotary oscillator.









Then what?

Our warrior men and women stopped getting killed and maimed.

[SA Friday]

Fuck that fat MFer. He's personally responsible for the death of hundreds of my fellow military members. I wanted to JDAM his ass to nothingness back in 04, but some unnamed agency had there heads up their asses as usual and didn't see just how influential he would become. Now we have to deal with him and his Fn Irianian handlers.

Personally, I would wet work his cranium the first chance we got after the withdraw and make it look like a Quds Force hit. Then I'd send a nice letter to Iran letting them know if they sed another puppet over the river, we'll evaporate them too.

This is completely a move to benefit his run at power and his Iranian handlers are banking on it to influence the post American withdraw Iraq.

[Elhuero]

one of the jihad's primary demand is the exit of the U.S. from the middle east.


therefore, I say we dig in and never leave.

Never.