Via Patrick Cockburn, these are the words of President George Bush ordering the death or capture of Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr during video conference in 2004.
But Lt Gen Ricardo Sanchez, the US commander in Iraq in 2003-4, says in his recently published memoirs Wiser in Battle that President George Bush personally ordered Mr Sadr to be captured or killed.
Mr Bush gave the order during a video conference on 7 April 2004 just after the US envoy Paul Bremer had started a crackdown on the Sadrists and they had responded with an uprising during which they had taken over much of southern Iraq.
In General Sanchez's account, Mr Bush said: "The Mehdi Army is a hostile force. We can't allow one man [Sadr] to change the course of the country. At the end of this campaign Sadr must be gone. At a minimum he will be arrested. It is essential he be wiped out."
In an extraordinary outburst, recorded by General Sanchez, Mr Bush said: "Stay strong! Stay the course! Kill them! Prevail! We are going to wipe them out! We are not blinking!"
Spoken like a G.I. Joe, Cobra Commander, true global terrorist mastermind.
I hope he's captured soon, along with his terrorist cadres.
In all reality he's a pussy bully punk mother fucker mama's boy, with lots of money. The kind of mother fuckers I'd bitch slap at a party.
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