← Autodidact Archive · Original Dissent · Jack Cassidy
Thread ID: 13158 | Posts: 3 | Started: 2004-04-13
2004-04-13 17:45 | User Profile
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[font='Times New Roman']U.S. military leaders are in a profound quandary here. Sadr cannot be uprooted without simultaneously immobilizing perhaps a thousand bodyguards ââ¬â and igniting Shiite loyalists to destructive rage against our coalition.
Military technicians can weigh various means of pulling Sadr out, or of handling his isolation. We might use gas, in an attempt to disarm his bodyguards. But Sadr himself, and no doubt some in his company, will have got gas masks, permitting them to live long enough to die fighting, which we do not want. We could attempt a siege, but it would be all but impossible to silence radio communications urging an uprising of Sadr's Shiite followers; besides which, his mere existence, day after day, fans the flames of bloody resistance to our hangdog ambition to bequeath upon the inhabitants of Iraq just a little freedom from rulers such as Saddam, and Sadr.[/font]
2004-04-14 16:44 | User Profile
WFB belongs in the Hall of Fame for sheenie brownnosers. Anyone who hasn't read "How I got fired by Bill Buckley" by Joseph Sobran should do so now.
2004-04-14 19:32 | User Profile
I saw Buckley on C-SPAN a while back, he looked more dead than alive. My first thought was that the mortician who worked on him should enroll in remedial make-up training. :eek: