“Too bad al Sadr wasn’t in the building. He might become a martyr in the process, but the murderous thug would be dead.”

Yep. I think it was an Australian ( the fella’ that thinks Mr. Obama is on the wrong track) that in so many words said, ‘a dead martyr is still dead’.

Reuters didn’t seem to want to cooperate…so, here’s another link to Nuri al- Maliki’s words

Iraqiya state television showed Maliki, a Shi’ite Islamist leader, talking to an Iraqi soldier near an armored vehicle in central Baghdad. The soldier pointed to an area from where he said insurgents had been firing at security forces.

“Don’t just fire back, crush the place where the fire came from,” Maliki replied. “Don’t treat them with leniency. This is an armored vehicle here, use it.”

Reuters

Some Bill’s Bites posts, some things I excerpted and linked but I’m sending you to the original post. I may rearrange the order of the items within this post as I add new things that I think belong above the

Just read ‘em. Maybe I’ll find time to do more with ‘em later. Here, Obedient to Their Laws, We Lie* Jules Crittenden Graves of Athenian war dead from the defeat of the Persians at Marathon, through the Peloponnesian War between

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