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There is a talk about the whereabouts of Moqtada al-Sadir. Abutamam has a belief based on a documentation which claims to be from the Iraqi government advising Moqtada among others to flee for Iran. On the other hand Juan Cole believes Moqtada is unlikely to leave Iraq for Iran based on the historical and rhetorical arguments.
I am still confused the importance they put on this guy. The last time Moqtada resisted the occupation was 2004! He is important for Americans for one important reason, that is, he is a lightning rod for anti Sunni militia bent in killing and torturing the resistance forces and their family. He is a pretender and Iraqi nationalist only in sermons him and his lucky Iraqi Shiite cleric gives every Friday from the pulpits. He could have stand firm for Iraq unity by refusing disarm and affirm the right to resist the occupation by all means necessary. Parties that are allied to him working for and with the occupation in important ministries milking a little money Iraq makes from ever decreasing revenue from oil. Moqtada and other Ayatollah’s have no qualm with the occupation as long as Sunni resistance to their power is a threat. But Sunnis are not fading or their resistance to the occupation curtailed yet, I am not sure it will ever be possible to defeat people determined to free Iraq. So I don’t know what the fuss is about Moqtada’s departure to Iran or to the Marshes. It doesn’t matter whether he is in Najaf, or Baghdad. In fact it doesn’t matter whether he is dead or alive! His movement is somehow fractured, we don’t know who is helping him nor do we know what his vision is for Iraq. Just like I have no respect for Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, so is for him, nor do I have any respect for Abdul Aziz al-Hakim.
People are distracted from the main issue now. The issue is the occupation. All those Ayatollah bunches support the occupation. It is a shame people don’t see it that way. They lionized Moqtada because he is rhetorical about the occupation; he never hides his hatred for the occupation, yet he help them to eliminates the Sunnis. I rather hear from Abdul-Aziz who never hides the love he has for Americans’. He openly supports the Americans and pushes them to do more in ethnic cleansing he envisioned; his Interior Ministry is notorious in rounding up the Sunnis torturing them and dumps their body throughout the capital.
I strongly believe Iraqis will never unit as a nation except through opposing the brutal occupation. The brutal occupation kills close to a million; made more than a million refugees and left some women with no choice but to serve as prostitutes in Syria and other Arab nations.
I applaud Iraqis who are getting killed and write a new history of Iraq with their blood. There is no noble thing to do than that. The cowards in Iraq think they can ride the occupation horse forever; but that horse is under pressure from its constitutes. American’s are waking up from their slumber; their realization spending close to a trillion dollar to kill Iraqis and lose that war at the end is a bad thing. Americans are stupid and arrogant, they think they can go to any country rape and kill them until they accept the reality of American superiority; I am sure by now more than half believe that is no longer the case. So bloggers’ who write about the whereabouts of Moqtada is missing the whole point: diversion from the real issue of occupation is what the Whitehouse terrorists want.

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