I was just a The American Leftist where I picked up this quote from Raed Jarrar, an Iraqi in Jordan:

I really want to understand from Rumsfeld where are his “majority”?? the “majority” of Iraqis that are against the current uprising, the majority that he wants to help them in reaching to their freedom… where are they?
If the millions in the “Sunni Triangle” are the minority, and the other millions of AsSadr are the minority… where are the majority? In Washington?

And if the minority can do all of this! And kick the coalition forces from cities like Kut… what can the majority do? Occupy the United States?

It ain't, not really.

The Three Smart Political Steps of the Day:

Uno) AsSadr announced that this uprising is the choice of the Iraqi people, he didn’t ask anyone to fight.
I know he is lying, he knows that he is lying…
But that was a smart political thing to do though.
He preferred to leave the opportunity of representing himself as a public leader, but gave more opportunities for other political and religious parties to join the uprising.

Dos) AsSadr started a compassion campaign for the people in Falluja, which had a good response from the majority of Iraqis. This ended the Sunni-Shia tension.

Tres) AsSadr launched his first regional affairs message, he sent an open message to the Kuwaiti people to start putting more pressure on their government, “It is the responsibility of the Kuwaiti people to help us free both our counties from the big devil”.

The Sunni-Shia reconciliation gave the uprising people another boost, and the speeches of Sistani and Baghdadi showed sympathy with AsSadr.

Now, the two unhappy campers are the governing council and the Kurds. The soft GC is the easiest target to attack and blame for the situation. The Kurds are not very comfortable with the anti-occupation alliance which could threaten their plans.

I really want to understand from Rumsfeld where are his “majority”?? the “majority” of Iraqis that are against the current uprising, the majority that he wants to help them in reaching to their freedom… where are they?

If the millions in the “Sunni Triangle” are the minority, and the other millions of AsSadr are the minority… where are the majority? In Washington?

And if the minority can do all of this! And kick the coalition forces from cities like Kut… what can the majority do? Occupy the United States?

The Ukrainian Army withdrew today from Al-Kut city, because of the huge pressure of the street fighting…

I think similar events will happen in Amara soon with the British Army… although the British Army handed over authorities to Iraqis 10 months ago… but still they have some patrols going across the city.

And maybe the uprising people will try to put more pressure on the Italians at Nasryya… but I doubt if they can make the Carabinieri leave the city…

But the thing I expect most is to see more attacks in the extremely-quiet Simawa and Diwanyya… where the Spanish and Japanese soldiers are located.

This new war is not going to stop in days... but the question is when and how...

Killing hundreds of Iraqis and dozens of foreign soldiers (Americans, Brits, Italians, Polish, Ukrainians, El Salvadorians and others) is not the answer.