Want to get a little insight into Sadr's "militia"?



Anxious Moments in Grip of an Outlaw Iraqi Militia from The New York Times

A sample

Some of the militiamen were in their 50's and 60's, but most were young, some no more than 12 or 13. Weapons training among them appeared virtually nonexistent; Kalashnikovs with loaded magazines and safety catches off were nonchalantly waved in the air.

And you can be sure when these youngsters are wounded or killed, their weapons an ammo are removed to make it look like the coalition are killing kids.

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Vehicles came and went, among them white and blue patrol cars and pickup trucks supplied by the United States to Iraq's new American-trained police force, filled with some of the heavily armed militiamen who took control of Kufa on Sunday.

And if that isn't enough to make you despair,

"It was God who finished Saddam, not the Americans," he said. "The Americans broke all their promises to us, and they have brought their infidel beliefs to Iraq. We hate them, and they are worse than Saddam."

Well, pal, God or an American, one of them will get you. My guess is the American's will get you first.

Remember the saying, "It is up to God to judge Saddam; it is up to the Marines to arrange the meeting."