Sadr Calls for New Iraqi Government

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/20/world/middleeast/20iraq.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=anti-U.S.%20cleric%20emerges%20to%20urge%20formation&st=cse

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From: barry levine
Date: Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 10:02 AM
Subject: re: Sadr Calls for New Iraqi Government
To: letters@nytimes.com


To the Editor:
   Moktada al-Sadr's anti-American activities are freighted with
politics. Whether he will be judged a freedom fighter or a terrorist
will be decided by history. Murder however is another matter. Any
Iraqi government that lacks the balls to try him for the killing of
Abdul-Majid al-Khoei cannot legitimately govern Iraq.  If al-Sadr's
militia buys him immunity from the law, the U.S. has merely replaced
the tyranny of Saddam Hussein with a new age of warlordism.
Barry Levine