The Magistrate
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Mon Apr-05-04 10:45 PM
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15. This Is Indeed Damned Serious, My Friend |
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Al'Sadr is making his play for supremacy among the Shia; what he is doing is aimed as much against Ay. al'Sistani as against the U.S. occupation. Open defiance of the U.S. is the best way to bid for support, by making his older rival seem an "Uncle Abdul", or whatever the local equivalent usage for "Uncle Tom" might be.
The only thing which has kept a semblance of order in Iraq is that al'Sisyani has held the Shia quiet, using the U.S. to knock down the Shia and other rivals of his. Should this fail, either by his being supplanted by al'Sadr, or by realizing he must out-militant al'Sadr to hold his position, what we have seen so far will seem a mere playground fight by comparison.
"Can't nobody here play this game?"
"LET'S GO GET THOSE BUSH BASTARDS!"
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