[lbo-talk] Sadrist victory

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Aug 27 07:42:00 PDT 2004


Marvin Gandall wrote:


>If there is any humour which can
>possibly be gleaned from the carnage, note that though the deal formally
>requires the Mahdi Army to "disarm", this is being accomplished by the
>Sadrist fighters "dropping off their weapons at Sadr's office near the
>shrine"(!), and even, at that,

It's not like arms are hard to come by in Iraq, either.



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