Moqtada al-Sadr Endorses Obama?

by Heywood U. Reedmore -- June 5, 2008 at 10:57 am | In 2008 Election |

First Hamas voiced their preference for Senator Obama, and now the radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, through a spokesperson, backs the presumptive Democrat nominee.

In Iraq, views on Obama’s victory were mixed. Salah al-Obaidi, chief spokesman for Moqtada al-Sadr, the Shiite Muslim cleric who opposes the presence of U.S. troops in Iraq, said the Sadr movement favors having a Democrat in the White House on grounds that McCain would largely continue Bush’s policies. 

Lately, Bush’s policies haven’t been going too well for al-Sadr – which is not only a problem for the cleric, but Obama, too (see article).  So it’s no wonder why al-Sadr would back the candidate who would leave Iraq in the hands of people like him.

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  1. […] Obama keeps giving our enemies reasons to cheer and our allies reasons to worry.  He’s promising pow-wows with Chavez, Kim Jong-Il, and the leadership of Cuba and Iran.  Hamas once voiced their preference for him as well as Moqtada al-Sadr’s Sadr movement.  Meanwhile Obama has spooked the Canadians with his anti-NAFTA tirades and calls for unilateral revisions and has the Europeans concerned about free trade as well.  He’s threatened to ditch trade deals with South Korea and Columbia and revisit others. […]

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