Baby Bush says, "We'll leave if you'll stop attacking us."
Muqtada al-Sadr says, "We'll stop attacking you when you leave."
Obama rides in and starts the process he promised - altho' it's a couple of years later than most expected.
According to Reuters, Muqtada al-Sadr told his militias to cease operations against US soldiers until the full withdrawal is complete at the end of 2011. If the withdrawal is extended or US troops remain, he has promised renewed attacks.
"Out of my desire to complete Iraq's independence and to finish the withdrawal of the occupation forces from our holy lands, I am obliged to halt military operations of the honest Iraqi resistance until the withdrawal of the occupation forces is complete," al-Sadr said in a statement late Saturday.
And then he warned: "if the withdrawal doesn't happen ... the military operations will be resumed in a new and tougher way."
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/muqtada-al-sadr-radical-iraqi-cleric-tells-followers-to-stop-attacking-us-troops-2011-9#ixzz1XkNLsqX9
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