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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (257310)	2/22/2008 6:23:53 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (2) of 281500

"I don't doubt he has signed onto the program, but he does not have the wit to really lead it. He's just not smart enough. He is a tool of others. There was a reason Saddam killed his father and older brother, but left him alive. He declared the current truce (which he just extended) because he had lost control of JAM forces, which were splintering into uncontrollable factions. That's hardly the mark of an able leader." It would be nice if that were true but its not. The Iranians tried to knock him out but they couldn't and he now has their backing. The US and Iraqi Armies marked him but he got around that somehow now the pres of Iraq has to clear decisions with him. I have been hearing rumors for years like yours that for some reason or another he has been neutralized but he keeps coming back stronger and more believable, now his forces are believed to be equal to the Iraqi National army and infiltrated there in. In Shi'ite thinking the Mehdi Army is not another force like Hizbollah, it is the only one and the rest will eventually be signing on to 'the program' if they haven't already.

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