BRING IT ON GEORGE! AL-SADR THREATENS ALL OUT WAR AGAINST US IN IRAQ WITH A GIANT BLOOODBATH.

Let's see how tough President Bush is NOW that Muqtada al-Sadr is threatening an all out war against US forces in Iraq that will result in a giant bloodbath. Bush is great at his tough guy talk when the "tough guys" doing the fighting are neither him or his twin daughters and certainly not that wimp Dick Cheney who used six deferments to avoid getting drafted during the Vietnam War.

In fact unless you have been living in a cave for the last five years, the US military in Iraq has been proven to be a "paper tiger." All bark and no bite. Aftter five years of fighting, the US military in Iraq is no closer to settling the problems of Iraq than when we invaded and occupied the nation in 2003.

Also, Iraq was a helluva lot better off when Saddam Hussein was in charge of the country than the Mickey Mouse government that is now in place that can't provide water or electricity to a vast majority of the people of Iraq.

More then TWO MILLION Iraqis have fled the country to live in Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, but anywhere but back in their home country where violence continues to grow every single day but the mainstream press in the United States is immune to covering the war in Iraq.

This blogger hears all the time from military families who are outraged that the ONLY place they can find out what is happening in Iraq is on my blog. FOX NEWS and the rest of the so-called maistream media have totally soldoutout their journalistic credentials to the Bush White House and are worse than Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Minister of Propaganda, was at the height of Hitler's Third Reich.

No wonder nobody wants to join the military anymore. Why should they? Just to become human cannon fodder for a bunch of wimps like Bush, Cheney all the Republican chicken-hawks and the lowest form of journalism in the history of the world....FOX NEWS.

Bring it on says Georgie, but Georgie is stashed away in the comfy confines of the White House and doesn't even have to drag his buns to Walter Reed Hospital to see what he has done to 30,000 young Americans who have been seriously injured from Bush' War, including many of them who will be disabled for LIFE He doesn't go, because Georgie doesn't care. Our troops are nothing more than pawns in a political chess game run by beady-eyed Bush and "Darth" Cheney---the man who once said he had better things to do than serve in the United States military.

How in God's name anyone can still stick up for this war is beyone this blogger. I have come to realize that the reason is because very, very few people have EVER served in the United States military for a variety of reasons, but most of all because they were too chicken to ever put on the uniform of the United States military.

So bring it on George. None of your followers will be there when Muqtada al-Sadr turns the US military into mincemeat with his highly trained and ruthlessly effective Mahdi Army---a real Army and not a bunch of paper tigers.

Editorial comment by BILL CORCORAN, editor of CORKSPHERE, http://corksphere.blogspot.com/ and a former Squad Leader in the United States Army Combat Engineers and a Korean War veteran.

Sadr threatens open-ended "war" as government presses offensive
By Raviya H. Ismail McClatchy Newspapers
Posted on Saturday, April 19, 2008

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/iraq/

BAGHDAD — Renegade cleric Muqtada al Sadr on Saturday issued a "final warning" to the Iraqi government, threatening an open-ended "war until liberation" if U.S. and Iraqi troops don't stop their offensive against followers of his militant Shiite Muslim movement.
Sadr's threat signals his growing fury with the joint U.S.-Iraqi offensive against his strongholds in Baghdad's Sadr City and in the volatile southern port city of Basra. Such a rebellion would end Sadr's eight-month-old ceasefire, which was widely credited — even by U.S. military officials — with curbing violence in Baghdad and throughout the Shiite south.
The U.S.-backed Iraqi military continued its two-front attack Saturday against the Mahdi Army and other outlaws, retaking government buildings from militiamen in Basra while waging fierce gun battles in the densely packed slums of Sadr City.
"I'm giving the final warning to the Iraqi government," Sadr said in the statement, which was released by his office in Najaf. "To desist and take the path of peace and denounce violence with its people…(or) we will announce an open war until liberation."
Fighting overnight in Sadr City, the militia's main Baghdad support base, killed at least five people and injured 19, according to officials at the district's Imam Ali Hospital.
U.S. air strikes and daily skirmishes have made life extremely hard for the area's estimated 3 million residents. Food rations are in short supply and hundreds of families have fled Sadr City in recent days. Residents expressed frustration and anger with both the Iraqi government and Sadr's political representatives.
"The missiles hit us without us knowing where they came from," said Najam Abu Nour, 38, who lives in Sadr City. "Where are the 20 Sadrist parliament members? Why don't we hear their voices? Why does everybody keep silent, nobody mentions the suffering of the citizens in this city?"
Gun battles also erupted between the Iraqi police and Sadr's followers near the southern city of Nasiriyah, where a curfew was imposed Friday. At least 20 militiamen were killed and another 37 were arrested in and around Nasiriyah, authorities there said. Two policemen died and 19 were wounded in the clashes.
In Basra, home to about 2 million people and most of the country's vast oil reserves, Iraqi forces backed by British troops stormed a neighborhood in the southern part of the city Saturday, seizing weapons and vehicles. Iraqi forces also discovered a large cache of weapons including rockets, mortars and bombs in the district of Hayaniyah, where Sadr's forces are concentrated, according to the U.S. military.
"The Mahdi Army didn't interfere in the clashes with the Iraq and foreign forces in Hayaniyah despite the aggressive procedures which were used by these troops against the innocent civilians by using different kinds of weapons randomly," said Harith al Athari, a Sadr spokesman in Basra.
"The criminal actions conducted by the government against the sons of the Sadr (group) in Sadr city, Basra, Karbala and the rest of cities...is what pushes us to settle accounts with everyone who acted wrongly," said Mohammed Hassan al Musawi, a prominent member of a Sadr office in Najaf. "And we will have in the next few days, a reaction to these criminal actions, and we might respond by a military armed uprising or other responses to end these violations against the citizens and families all over Iraq."