Well, looks like Team Bush policy is to ask "how high" when Moqtada Al Sadr, relaying the message through lackey Nouri al-Maliki, demands that they jump:
U.S. forces ended a five-day-old military blockade of Baghdad's impoverished Sadr City section Tuesday, meeting a deadline set by Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki amid tensions between U.S. and Iraqi officials and pressure from the anti-American cleric whose militia controls the sprawling Shiite slum.
Maliki ordered that the security cordon be lifted hours after cleric Moqtada al-Sadr called for a civil disobedience campaign in Sadr City to protest the blockade, which the U.S. military launched Wednesday in an effort to find an abducted U.S. soldier and capture a purported Iraqi death squad leader...
Precisely at 5 p.m. local time (9 a.m. EST), the deadline set by Maliki, U.S. armored personnel carriers pulled away from the roadblocks. Young men in pickup trucks drove through the streets waving banners of the Mahdi Army, and drivers of other vehicles honked their horns in celebration.
In Bushspeak, "support the troops" must mean "you're on your own and we can't be bothered." Meanwhile, William S. Lind speculates on what might happen if Act III of this ongoing tragedy unfolds as they've, um "planned" (as if Team Bush and "plan" could actually be put together in a sentence.
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