Muqtada Al-Sader Quotes
I renew my call for the occupier [the United States] to leave our land. The departure of the occupier will mean stability for Iraq, victory for Islam and peace and defeat for terrorism and infidels.
Muqtada al-Sader, Moslem Shiite Clergyman, Quoted in Forbes, “Radical Cleric Blames U.S. for Iraq Woes”, March 30, 2007
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He uses the term Palestine to mean the entire area including Israel.
This Proclamation was issued upon arrival of the British occupying imperial army in present day Iraq. The English policy makers like the Bush administration almost a century later were expecting a more welcoming reaction. See {585250}.
The neoconservatives at the time, not only urged the invasion of Iraq, but no sooner did it take place than Ledeen and other neoconservatives were calling for the invasion of other countries in the Middle East that were controlled by dictators.