Rice Calls Sadr a “Coward”; Echoes Bush’s “Bring’em On”
Sitting bravely behind concrete walls while visiting Iraq this weekend, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice chose to channel her boss (circa 2003) by responding to Muqtada al-Sadr’s latest threat with an official “taunt” from a U.S. government:
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice mocked anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr as a coward on Sunday, hours after a radical leader threatened to declare war unless U.S. & Iraqi forces end a military crackdown on his followers. …(read on)
VetVoice’s’ Br&on Friedman goes on to explain that this “actually provides a huge piece of propag&a for Sadr, who can now use it as a rallying point for his followers who will view this as a challenge to air honor,” & just when a surge was beginning to work so well.
Spencer Ackerman has more.
Original post by Bill W. and software by Elliott Back
