1 I saw on CNN this morning that the Brits actually attacked a police station this morning. Not. Good. We still have those tactical nukes, right? :-0

2 Violence sucks - right Impy?

3 Once more, for the slower among us: Muslims are uncivilized savages, and history shows time and again that they can only behave, indeed, they only seem happy, when they have a boot on their neck. Treating them as civilized people and expecting them to behave as such is like expecting a rabid dog to not bite the hand that feeds him.

4 Having spent a pleasent Summer & Autumn (2003) in Basrah, I am baffled that you make such a simple link: Sadr-Iran-Nukes-Basrah. It is way more complex, there are two militias in Basrah, Sadr's bunch (Mecti Army - MA) and Sistani's lot (Barda Corp - BC). Sadr's political party lost heavy to Sistani in the election in Basrah but the MA were as effective as the BC in getting their people into the Police, INA and local government appointments. Since Najaf, the MA have been careful not to pick too many fights with the coalition. However, the constitution has split the shia vote with Sistani (Iranian backed) giving a block vote for the constitution while Sadr (Iraq Nationalist) giving a block vote against. The every shifting alliances mean that Sadr has been endorsed by Al Queda in Iraq. The bomb attacks may be related to either AQ or Iranian trg but it is not nessacaryly that Sadr is an extention of Iran's Foriegn Policy. Just as likely and more probable is that these attacks are related to the political aim of the MA, i.e. establishing a wider popular base and destablising the very institutions that the coalition require to be in place for the constitutional vote and their withdrawl. Yesterdays incidents certianly will enhance the MA powerbase and clearly have damaged the IPS and INA relations with coalition forces. p.s. As a Brit, it is good to see that our troops drinking/brawling skills enable them to be the BEST occupation force the world has ever seen! (max two IZ deaths) about right for some petrol bombs and stones. Much like Belfast last week!

5 Rusty, the police are the bad guys. IM, whoever's peeing in your cheerios, do get over it. Jailor, I'm sure Sistani is receiving money from Iran but yours is the first mention I've seen linking him to the Badr Corps (are we talking about the same thing?) The nuke policy link is drawn here by "British officials" and it seems quite plausible. Mookie's Mahdi Army got caught with $30 million in heroin last year by the Poles and that had to come through Iran. By all accounts i read, he's their main man.

6 We should have nuked terran when we had the chance but we had that idiot JIMMY CARTER in at the time and this whinning peanut brained nit wit did nothing

7 Hey See-Dubya, don't tell me to get over it. I have every right to be pissed off, and I can't imagine why the hell someone would be so apathetic with everything going to hell in a handbasket.

8 I heard that iran kept the hostages until reagan was inogertaed to embarass carter of course iran we always knew that carter was a whimp and nit wit

9 Hey see-dubya, yep the Badr Corp are the military wing of SCIRI which is headed up by Sistani.

10 TARGET TEHRAN: time for talkin over now time for tomahawkin