That can be arranged.
In his statement on Saturday, Moqtada Sadr said: "I heard the statement of the terrorist American defence minister and I feel compelled to give a decent response to such a terrorist."**********
"I have no enemy but you. You are the occupier."
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After all, the Shiites suffered horribly under the reign of the deposed dictator. Among the highly prominent Shiite ayatollahs killed by Saddam’s men were the revered Mohammed Bakr Sadr, executed with his sister in 1980, and his cousin Mohammed Sadiq Sadr (the father of Muqtada al-Sadr), who was assassinated in 1999.*
But Shiite loathing for the Sunni elite that oppressed them under Saddam does not translate into sympathy for the US occupiers.
“We cannot push the Shia to accept any of the Westerners in our country,” Asadi says while leaning forward for emphasis, “Because they are the tail of the American snake.”