Dancing With the Devil by Victoria Coates - HUMAN EVENTS

"Nassar al-Rubiae, head of the Sadrist block in the Iraqi Council of Representatives, made common cause with members of our Congress who supported the a firm timetable for a rapid U.S. withdrawal from Iraq in an interview we had in Iraq. He repeated this talking point in a subsequent interview with Asia Times online, and it features in the open letter Moqtada al-Sadr recently sent to President Bush. His remark in our interview was no random accusation: it was part a deliberate PR campaign to exploit the Democrats' action on the war supplemental legislation and thus legitimize the Sadrist agenda. In short, radical Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr wants the U.S. to pull out of Iraq immediately and leave the country to the tender ministrations of the extremists among the Shia majority. "

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