Today, Putz
writes:
Bill Roggio, recently returned from Iraq, comments on Bush's new approach. Excerpt: "On Sadr and the Mahdi Army: We've created this monster, and now its time to put it down. We failed by not taking the opportunity to kill Sadr after his Mahdi Army was roundly defeated in the Najaf uprising in August of 2004." I think that's right. At the time I figured the Administration knew something I didn't; in retrospect that seems unlikely.
In
June 2004, Putz wrote:
REMEMBER WHEN MOQTADA AL-SADR was going to lead a popular uprising across Iraq? (That was April's we're-losing story). Well, he didn't, and here's the story of how we won. I wonder how much attention it'll get.
About as much attention as it deserved, apparently.
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