Muqtada al-Sadr ~ AKA al-DUMBASS
Just when you think you've heard the last of the cherubic little Shi'ite fuzzball cleric who made such a stink in Iraq against coalition forces up to just a year ago, Muqtada Al-Sadr pulls a make-over worthy of Madonna and reappears in the guise of something else. In his case, a political player, and with a surprisingly large following of supporters - and enemies.
It doesn't hurt to have an influential father - young Muqtada's Dad was a very powerful Shi'ite cleric, who apparently bumped heads with Saddam Hussein's regime too many times. His car was ambushed in the town of al-Najaf, in 1999 - he and two of Muqtada's brothers were gunned down.
Although he retained a reasonable following from some of his father's original flock, he was not considered a real player in Iraq - that is, until his armed opposition to coalition forces and the United States in his stronghold of Sadr City until early 2004. Once it was clear that he would be killed or captured if he chose to continue armed resistance, he agreed to join the political process and disband his so-called Mahdi Army (albeit with a short-lived return to hostilities in the Summer).
Having urged his estimated 2 million supporters to abstain from voting on the constitution earlier this year, our chubby chameleon has done a 180 and has put forth a list of candidates for the upcoming December elections. Young al-Sadr then announced that he supports no one, and urged people to vote their conscience.
Pretty smart guy, right? Maybe, but I have severe doubts about this 31 year-old reaching 35. With his John Kerry-like flip-flopping, he has made some enemies. His Sadrist movement is splintering; he has been in constant conflict with the Grand Ayatollah of Iraq, Ali al-Sistani; is hated and feared by much of the Sunni population; and has a fair amount of American blood on his hands (including U.S. Army Specialist Casey Sheehan and many of his comrades in Charlie Battery of the First Cavalry Division).
He has proven to be a slippery one indeed, but methinks that luck may soon run out on this young upstart. He HATES America, despite our having removed his Father's killer from power. As far as I'm concerned, his death would be the end of just another DUMBASS.
It doesn't hurt to have an influential father - young Muqtada's Dad was a very powerful Shi'ite cleric, who apparently bumped heads with Saddam Hussein's regime too many times. His car was ambushed in the town of al-Najaf, in 1999 - he and two of Muqtada's brothers were gunned down.
Although he retained a reasonable following from some of his father's original flock, he was not considered a real player in Iraq - that is, until his armed opposition to coalition forces and the United States in his stronghold of Sadr City until early 2004. Once it was clear that he would be killed or captured if he chose to continue armed resistance, he agreed to join the political process and disband his so-called Mahdi Army (albeit with a short-lived return to hostilities in the Summer).
Having urged his estimated 2 million supporters to abstain from voting on the constitution earlier this year, our chubby chameleon has done a 180 and has put forth a list of candidates for the upcoming December elections. Young al-Sadr then announced that he supports no one, and urged people to vote their conscience.
Pretty smart guy, right? Maybe, but I have severe doubts about this 31 year-old reaching 35. With his John Kerry-like flip-flopping, he has made some enemies. His Sadrist movement is splintering; he has been in constant conflict with the Grand Ayatollah of Iraq, Ali al-Sistani; is hated and feared by much of the Sunni population; and has a fair amount of American blood on his hands (including U.S. Army Specialist Casey Sheehan and many of his comrades in Charlie Battery of the First Cavalry Division).
He has proven to be a slippery one indeed, but methinks that luck may soon run out on this young upstart. He HATES America, despite our having removed his Father's killer from power. As far as I'm concerned, his death would be the end of just another DUMBASS.
posted by Timmer of Righting America at Permalink
5 Comments:
Chazz!
Great one, bro. What the HELL is up with this guys TEETH! I copied your image and magnified it. Yuck! And I am with you but even one step further, this asshole needs to be taken OUT!
Chazz -
You are right - this dumbass is in need of a bullet. He thinks he will be a "Kingmaker" in the new Iraq? Hmmmm...
Are you kidding me?? This guy is a brave leader in Iraq, who just wanted to kick out the invaders of his country. Now whos the dumbass?
Chazz,I got a recommendation for your next Dumbass of the week.MovOn.Org stupid ad they ran this week criticizing Bush and these fools thought they had pictures of American Soldiers having a lonely Thanksgiving and didn't realize until an Army officer pointed out that Soldiers don't were Long shorts as part of Summer uniforms and even their prints on their uniforms are different from ours.You need to go to Michelle Malkin's web site to see it.
Lisa,
Yeah, I saw that. And if you read down further, you'll see that in a different version of the ad they PHOTO-DOCTORED the shorts OUT and put some American-style Cammie Pants on the guy!
They should be called MoveOn.DUMBASS!!!!
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