Iraq and Sadr Negotiating
Just a couple days ago the US forces were going into get Sadr, dead or alive. Now Iraq is negotiating with Sadr again.
Iraqi officials and aides to a radical Shiite cleric negotiated Friday to end fighting that has raged in Najaf for nine days, after American forces suspended an offensive against Muqtada al-Sadr's militia.
The US forces are told engage the enemy in self-defense only. And on Friday there were no sign of US forces inside the old city. So what is Sadr's respones to that?
"We are now celebrating the victory. This means the defeat of the other side," al-Sadr aide Ahmed al-Shaibany said.
Sadr sees the US forces pull back as a sign that we retreated. This is the same thing happened a few months ago. We went in to get Sadr, he comes out and says he wants to negotiate, we pull back, Sadr claims victory and starts amassing weapons and people and planning for another battle again (hence 2 days ago). Does anyone start seeing a pattern here?
The only thing Sadr wants is to run Iraq himself. He is calling on Iraqi's to rebel because he doesn't want another Saddam like government. Does he not understand that Iraqi's are running the government.
The only solution to this problem is to take Sadr out. Because I can bet that in another couple months we will be seeing the same thing again. The US must take the gloves off, we can not keep trying to negotiate with terrorists.