Yes, and anyone who believes this, please contact me: I’ve got a suspension bridge, in excellent condition, available for purchase at a bargain price. From AP, with thanks to Jjpmackie:
BAGHDAD, Iraq – The spokesman for militant Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr tempered threats to continue fighting Monday, saying his movement only planned to wage “peaceful resistance” against the interim government.
Al-Sadr issued a statement Sunday from his office in the Shiite holy city of Najaf calling the new interim Iraqi government “illegitimate” and pledging “to continue resisting oppression and occupation to our last drop of blood.”
But Sadr’s spokesman in Baghdad, Mahmoud al-Soudani, called a news conference Monday to clarify that the statement was not a call to arms. He said that many of al-Sadr’s supporters in Baghdad had begun taking up arms again and he needed to correct their misperceptions.
“We are still committed to the cease-fire,” al-Soudani said.
Pardon me if I am skeptical. Anyone who wants us to believe that resistance “to the last drop of blood” means peaceful dissent has not quite gained my full confidence.