BAGHDAD — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice mocked anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr as a coward on Sunday, hours after the radical leader threatened to declare war unless U.S. and Iraqi forces end a military crackdown on his followers.
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The only reason we've been able to show some sort of 'success' (questionable at best) is because the Mahdi Army has generally remained at home. Baiting Moqtada into all-out hostilities can only have dire consequences.
Update:
Quoting Skippy:
you tell 'em, condi! nothing's worse than a leader who talks tough but refuses to join the fighting himself!
Update:
Analysis from Moon of Alabama:
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Sadr's last campaigns were not impressive in a military sense. But by now he might have gotten some serious advice on how to achieve something. A good advice might have been to look at logistics.
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If you can't feed, fuel, and resupply an army, it ain't much of an army anymore.
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