And on August 23, 2004, the USA military started to bomb this Mosque. The bombers were first jets and then came the tanks.
Moqtada al Sadr was fighting for his life and the life of his Mosque. He is a cleric in Iraq where his father, grandfather and an uncle was killed in their own home by Saddam. Bush was no better than Saddam. It wasn't until the Grand Ayatollah Ali al Sistani entered his authority to his people did the attack stop. And it stopped dead in it's tracks. So don't tell me the USA has all these high moral values because it serves the purpose of seeking sympathy for Iraq. Ain't no way, the USA comes away from the Iraq war as saintly to any crimes against humanity.
The American people don't want the deaths of these people on their hands, yet alone more people of the Middle East. The Republican presidential hopefuls are not going to bring the USA to the brink of war again.
By Mike Dorning
BAGHDAD — U.S. warplanes (click here) pounded away at followers of radical cleric Moqtada Sadr in Najaf and tanks advanced closer to the shrine where the rebels have gathered, as Iraq's interim government warned Sunday night that a raid on the mosque is imminent.
Late Sunday, leaders of Sadr's al-Mahdi Army told The Associated Press that U.S. attacks had damaged the outer walls of the mosque. A U.S. military spokesman denied American forces hit the walls, AP reported.
Moqtada al Sadr was fighting for his life and the life of his Mosque. He is a cleric in Iraq where his father, grandfather and an uncle was killed in their own home by Saddam. Bush was no better than Saddam. It wasn't until the Grand Ayatollah Ali al Sistani entered his authority to his people did the attack stop. And it stopped dead in it's tracks. So don't tell me the USA has all these high moral values because it serves the purpose of seeking sympathy for Iraq. Ain't no way, the USA comes away from the Iraq war as saintly to any crimes against humanity.
The American people don't want the deaths of these people on their hands, yet alone more people of the Middle East. The Republican presidential hopefuls are not going to bring the USA to the brink of war again.
By Mike DorningBAGHDAD — U.S. warplanes (click here) pounded away at followers of radical cleric Moqtada Sadr in Najaf and tanks advanced closer to the shrine where the rebels have gathered, as Iraq's interim government warned Sunday night that a raid on the mosque is imminent.
Late Sunday, leaders of Sadr's al-Mahdi Army told The Associated Press that U.S. attacks had damaged the outer walls of the mosque. A U.S. military spokesman denied American forces hit the walls, AP reported.
