The results, posted online successively, also showed the bloc of Iraq’s populist Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr maintaining the most seats in parliament, leading in several of Iraq’s 18 provinces, including the capital Baghdad. Al-Sadr, a maverick leader remembered for leading an insurgency against U.S. forces after the 2003 invasion, appeared to have increased his movement’s seats in the 329-member parliament from 54 in 2018 to more than 70.
Sadr’s Jihadists were responsible for, among other things, Black Sunday.
It was April 4th, 2004, and troops from the 1st Cavalry, out of Fort Hood, Texas had just arrived in Iraq. They had been handed a routine mission, escorting Iraqi sewage trucks through a Baghdad suburb, and they were done for the day, headed back to base. Then the streets emptied, machine gun fire and rocket-propelled grenades rained down. Eight Americans died in the ambush that day, and 65 were wounded. For the U.S. military, it marked what was, at the time, the worst single day in terms of casualties since Vietnam.
That’s only a small part of the U.S. casualties attributed to Sadr’s Jihadists. But Iraq oscillates between Shiite and Sunni Jihadis. And Sadr’s star continues to rise.
In 2004, Muqtada al-Sadr and his Mahdi Army fought ferociously against the U.S. in Iraq. Hundreds of U.S. soldiers lost their lives and many more were wounded
During a previous election there were interviews with some veterans who had been there on the ground.
BOURQUIN: You know, it just led me down a rabbit hole of a whole lot of emotions and, you know, took me back to a lot of different places. This is a guy that we’ve been fighting against for so many years. And he’s responsible for the death of quite a few of my friends and their friends and, you know, a lot of destruction. And now he wants to be a politician. And he’s moving up along those lines.
SALERNO: When my battalion left Iraq in March of ’05, when we went down to Kuwait, it was right after the elections in 2005 in February. And I honestly believed that all the blood and treasure at that point had been worth it. My interpreters were coming in on Election Day, and they were literally crying. They were so happy. They were hugging us. They were telling us, this is the greatest day in Iraq. And I honestly thought we had done something good. And over the years, just watching it unravel the way it has has been absolutely heartbreaking – absolutely heartbreaking for me.
PMK says
So? Rebels become leaders. It happens. Either the West has to accept autocratic rule by tyrants and dictators in the Muslim world, such as Saddam Hussein, or it has to live with the results of their elections. Pick one.
gravenimage says
In Muslim countries Jihadists often take power, by elections or by violence as in Afghanistan.
A real democracy has safeguards for minorities and the individual–you do not find this in Dar-al-Islam, no matter how those in power took it.
spiro says
Will we
ever learn that Muslim countries will never embrace our ways
Our leaders are ignorant
Or biblical. stupid. to think otherwise
gravenimage says
Sadr’s Shiite jihadists who killed US soldiers dominate Iraqi election
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It was not possible for us to civilize Afghanistan, and it was not possible for us to civilize Iraq.
Lion heart says
Gravenimage:it was a waste of time except ridding of the evil Saddam and his terrorist Baathist regime ! instead Muslims are killing American soldiers even many of their interpreters who worked with the US army have stabbed. Americans in the back by snitching on them to their fellow Muslims through texting them about the whereabouts of the American military convoys so that they would ambush the American soldiers and kill as many Americans as possible while sparing their fellow Muslims! abs not only that mug like killed their fellow Iraqi Christians and raped their women for wearing western-style clothes ( tank top , tights etc.. ) abs burning down all the Christian alcohol stores and they have Christians three choices: converting to Islam or paying. Jizya or death ( Quran 9:29 )they did many other horrible things after taking Islam seriously and that’s the nature of Muslims whenever they take Islam seriously and find power vacuum and security breach anywhere, they turn into thugs , criminals and terrorists .and they were setting heavy gun machines on the rooftops of elementary school buildings so that when American fighter jets , they think they were military targets and bombard them and then Muslims would say “ see Americans are evil they are killing children” abs even when 9/11 happened, all Iraqi Muslims were happy and many were handing out candies on the street out of joy and after all this , they accuse USA of creating ISIS ??and when they come to the west , they play victims . And I am a Canadian Christian guy originally from Iraq .
gravenimage says
Grimly true, Lion heart. I’m glad you were able to get out.
Keys says
Glad you are here, Lion Heart !
It is not possible to civilize Muslim countries, because it is not possible to civilize Islam. Civilized Islam is an oxymoron.
Another is Biden Administration.
Rarely says
Don’t worry. It will be a fake election, stolen from the real winners — those in favour of an American-style democracy.
Infidel says
Rarely
In that case, they’d be no different from us here in the US. At least until we can morph into Canada
Lion heart says
Keys : thanks man ! Actually I told many American soldiers that when I worked with US army as interpreter in 244-2005 and back then I told them , never trust Muslims because you don’t know when they will take Islam seriously all of a sudden and when they do and did , they stabbed Americans in the back and I mean here many Iraqi Muslim interpreters and even other Iraqi Muslim interpreters who didn’t harm Americans , they behaved that way because they wanna either get Americans help them out if Iraq or it’s part of their job “ I interpret for you guys and you give me money “ or they haven’t taken Islam seriously yet at that time or they didn’t find the chance to harm the Americans and that’s the nature of Muslims my friend ! Whenever Muslims find a security breach and power vacuum , they turn into thugs, criminals and ultimately terrorists and we saw it in Iraq after the fall of Saddam’s bloody regime when thy took Islam seriously, even longtime Muslim neighbours to Iraqi Christians had betrayed the Christians as I mentioned in my previous comment to gravenimage .God bless msn , and God bless my country country Canada , USA and all the western world and all nonMuslim lands
Janet Jones says
Like Obama a mean nasty pedo hater.
Janet Jones says
…pedo: A HATER.
Janet Jones says
They will dominate the world with the Global Caliphate |
Accomplished through heinous slaughter ushered in by the SQUAT.