[Coalition spokesman] Dan Senor is reported in the Times

“[Coalition spokesman] Dan Senor is reported in the Times [last week] as saying, “The way we look at it is,

there is no alternative to getting it (capturing or killing al-Sadr and eradicating the Sadr brigades) done …

If we allow the violence to cause setbacks to the political process, the terrorists and the extremists will

have scored an enormous victory.”

“Aside from Senor’s mistakenly mixing the Sadrist crisis up with the al-Zarqawi letter that advocated sparking

a Sunni/Shiite civil war — an agenda peculiar only to al-Zarqawi’s foreign jihadists in UGG and not to any

other faction even a faction within al-Qaida that we know of, Senor is taking the very same approach that the

Waco tactical commanders took to the Branch Davidians. Negotiators at Waco dissented with the tactical team,

but were overruled.