{"id":5292,"date":"2008-05-20T13:21:15","date_gmt":"2008-05-20T13:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/05\/the-iraqi-army-seizes-sadr-cit.html"},"modified":"2008-05-20T13:21:15","modified_gmt":"2008-05-20T13:21:15","slug":"the-iraqi-army-seizes-sadr-cit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/05\/the-iraqi-army-seizes-sadr-cit.html","title":{"rendered":"The Iraqi army seizes Sadr City"},"content":{"rendered":"

Talk about making progress in Iraq! This<\/a> is huge! Did you see it on TV yet? And what’s great about this is that the Iraqis are doing it themselves:<\/p>\n

Some 10,000 Iraqi police and soldiers, backed by tanks, pushed deep into Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr’s Baghdad bastion on Tuesday, stamping the government’s authority on an area until now outside its control.
\nThe army said they met no resistance as they moved into Sadr City in the early hours, securing three quarters of the sprawling slum where hundreds have been killed in weeks of fighting between U.S. and Iraqi forces and Shi’ite militants loyal to Sadr.
\nA truce 10 days ago between Shi’ite factions largely ended the fighting in one of Baghdad’s poorest districts and paved the way for Tuesday’s operation.
\nThe truce agreement called on gunmen loyal to Sadr to lay down their arms and on the government to restore control over Sadr City.
\n[…]
\nSadr City is the main stronghold of Sadr’s Mehdi Army, a militia estimated to number tens of thousands that the U.S. military once called the greatest threat to peace in Iraq.
\nThe operation, on the second anniversary of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s swearing-in, was the first time since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion that the Iraqi army had pushed so deeply into the area. It previously controlled only the perimeter.
\n[…]
\nA U.S. military spokesman said no American troops were involved and the operation was Iraqi-planned and executed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

See what a little patience will get you, Pelosi? I hope that Republicans will put this type of stuff in ads and then play Pelosi and Reid declaring defeat in Iraq. We should be thankful our military is better equipped to do their job than Congress is.
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