The Lonely Goatherd Blog And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats - Matthew 25:32
Up to the minute notes on the current state of free thinking and free living: Kentucky moonshine - original analysis and reporting from MoreThings, and all round pop culture museum of sight and sound - photo galleries, mp3 and video downloads.
Al Barger and MoreThings - getting people's goats since 1998.
Live free or die!
----
I wouldn't want to ask people to just give me money cause they like my website, but do please take a quick look at Barger's Boutique. You might find yourself a little something-something for 2 or 3 bucks that you just can't resist! Any of the round images you find around MoreThings will get you to an Amazon page to buy my stuff and help ol' Al keep the lights on.
Links
To explicitly state the obvious, these external links go to interesting and provocative websites, but they speak for themselves. I don't necessarily agree with anything they say - especially that no-goodnik Richard Marcus.
*************
All original content on MoreThings.com copyright 2008 Albert Barger or the respective authors
April 10, 2004
Moqtada al-Sadr has to go This dirtbag cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has to go. There's no two ways about it.
George Will, as usual, has a good, thoughtful analysis of our current tough situation in Iraq. It's bad enough to have to suck up the old Shiite ayatollah, Ali Sistani, and deal with all the brewing internecine hostilities that threaten a civil war.
This Moqtada al-Sadr has declared open war on the US, though, and that absolutely cannot be tolerated. Screw worrying about national pride or any such thing, but if we do anything less than squish this murdering thug, we will have hell on our hands- and not just in Iraq.
Then there is this report from Salam, our man on the ground in Baghdad:
Remember the days when every time you hear an Iraqi talk on TV you had to remember that they are talking with a Mukhabarat minder looking at them noting every word? We are back to that place.
You have to be careful about what you say about al-Sadir. Their hands reach every where and you don't want to be on their shit list. Every body, even the GC is very careful how they formulate their sentences and how they describe Sadir's Militias. They are thugs, thugs thugs. There you have it.
Oh HELL no. We haven't come this far to turn the country over to some punk ayatollah. Why would we snatch defeat from the jaws of victory like that?
This guy has to be terminated with extreme prejudice. If some people get mad, ten times as many will THANK us- which is really probably closer to the overall picture in Iraq now.
