It doesn't necessarily work that way. Killing Al-Sadr would probably lead to a massive revolt against US troops, plus there would be no one else to control the Mahdi Army, at least not immediately. Al-Sadr is actually the reason it's been fairly quiet in Iraq over the past several months because he declared a unilateral cease-fire and most of his followers obeyed.

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Regarding that unilateral cease-fire, it's currently under a big strain and almost dead because of the recent raids on Al-Sadr's followers. The shelling of the Green Zone isn't a coincidence though it's not clear what role Al-Sadr is playing in that and the perpetrators might be renegade units not under his control.

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We killed Zarqawi "The Prince of Al Qaeda in Iraq" -OBL quote-, did that stop the Al Qaeda insurgency in Iraq?

Like a Hydra. Cut off one head, two will grow back ...

I think the cease-fire was just a ploy for al-Sadr's army to build up more weapons.

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That, but also to let our troops clean out his enemies (militant Sunnis and rival/renegade Shiites) and then to give us an excuse to leave. There's probably nothing else that Al-Sadr wants more. Unfortunately for both him and us, it hasn't worked out too well yet.

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How about the number of times the CIA tried to assassinate Castro? Didn't they once try to hire the mafia to do it?

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Funny that just recently you argued against pulling out of Iraq, but that would certainly break the hell loose as you call for. That might not be a bad thing, as long as we're not in the middle of it. That's why I said don't assassinate Al-Sadr now, because we're still there. It's not like that would be an easy thing to do anyway. That guy is very sneaky and has good security and intelligence.

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I did.

Yes but we won't be able to control it after hell is done.

I'm pretty sure we will somehow be in the middle of it one way or the other.

I'm saying that even if hell does break loose, we might be able to control it in some way or the other. However, if we move out of the neighborhood and hell breaks loose, we cannot control it even if we wanted to.

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I'll make a green zone! Give me the good old 10th Panzer!

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Now thats more my style. Nuck them then suck the rest of the oil out of the glass floored, self lighting parking lot.


I don't see how thats such a bad option, who will really miss the middle east?

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