A member of Iraq's governing council had a meeting with Moqtada Al-Sadr -- austensibly to find a way to halt the violence -- and promptly decided to quit. (Al-Sadr should meet with Bush too!)
And he's not the only Iraqi to leave the council in the past few days. He probably won't be the last, either. **UPDATE - I was right, apparently.** Bremer is going to look ridiculous if he has to appoint fresh quislings on a daily basis. (I hear the janitor was just named Minister of Sanitation...)
So, for those of you who -- like our president -- who believe in the Book of Revelations, how should Moqtada Al-Sadr be viewed? Does Bush see him as some kind of antichrist... or just a silver-tongued devil? Maybe Bush is doing his utmost to bring about Armaggedon in the Middle East. After all, what does it matter if the whole region explodes, if all the Christians are lifted up into the heavens ahead of time, right?!
Who knows. Perhaps Al-Sadr really is the
I fully expect Moqtada Al-Sadr to go down like his father did... preaching against the government, dressed in his funeral shroud. The U.S. had better hope they can either negotiate with him or take him alive, because when it comes to Iraq, nobody knows how to do martyrdom like an Al-Sadr. Nobody.
