We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2007 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/iraq_economy_ba_1.html Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:56:47 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2008 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification [Kat] Part I - Sadr and the Labor Unions Two and a half years ago, Steven Vincent, author of "In the Red Zone" was killed in Basra for reporting the truth that is still relevant today: Basra is the Sopranos on Steroids. In his last report in the New York Times, July 31, 2005, Vincent wrote: As has been widely reported of late, Basran politics (and everyday life) is increasingly coming under the control of Shiite religious groups, from the relatively mainstream Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq to the bellicose followers of the rebel cleric Moktada al-Sadr.... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/iraq_economy_ba_1.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/iraq_economy_ba_1.html Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:21:58 -0600 Heh. Well, I think he was trying to convey how common, well entrenched, and part of the political process. As opposed to Sadr who keeps milling about the edges and dipping his toe in the political process while blowing everyone up. That's my interpretation anyway http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/iraq_economy_ba_1.html#comment-71976 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/iraq_economy_ba_1.html#comment-71976 Tue, 15 Apr 2008 08:07:32 -0600 "..the relatively mainstream SCIRI.." heh. never thought i would see them described like that. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/iraq_economy_ba_1.html#comment-71975 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/iraq_economy_ba_1.html#comment-71975 Tue, 15 Apr 2008 08:01:01 -0600