Iraq head slapper of the day:
It appears that Prime Minister Nouri Maliki’s ultimatum to Shiite Muslim militiamen to surrender to the Iraqi government might not be working precisely as he had intended.
When nobody had turned up by Friday, Maliki gave members of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada Sadr’s Mahdi Army militia 10 more days to turn in their weapons and renounce violence.
Instead, about 40 members of the Shiite-dominated Iraqi army and National Police offered to surrender their AK-47s and other weapons this morning to Sadr’s representatives in the cleric’s east Baghdad stronghold of Sadr City.
“This war just needs to grind to the end.”
– Michael Newbold Castle August 6th, 2007
Your strategy is working like gangbusters Mr. Castle. Verily, you are a giant among men. A real philosopher-genius-poet-warrior-king.
I am in awe of your greatness.