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NDD,
I've had a ongoing discussion about al-Sadr with one of my officers. Personally, I think we are being soft on him, or, maybe more acurately, I think the new Iraqi government is being too soft on him. My officer believes that we are afraid of turning him into a martyr. In my opinion, I don't think killing him will make him a martyr. I think he's nothing more than a thug. His popularity is do to the fact that he is the one talking the loudest over there. He's no more than "the flavor of the month".
My thought on the "why isn't he dead" question: I think making him dead will be much easier now that he isn't holed up in the Najaf equivolent to the Vatican. Since he broke the truce, I've been saying that he needs a date with a Hellfire missile just like that former leader of Hamas.
Maybe my thoughts on him are way off, but I think he's no more than a nuisance. What do you think sir?
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