Not only a Sadr stooge, mind you. This is Qais Khazali, who broke away from Sadr and lead Iran-backed terror groups in Iraq. He succeeded in pulling off some of the worst atrocities committed against the United States during the war. Amongst his victims were five American soldiers, four of whom were kidnapped and executed by his men.

In 2007, American troops found him with the ID cards of the dead American troops at the scene. General David Petraeus noted the incident himself, going on to accuse Iran’s Revolutionary Guard of bankrolling the entire terror organization. It was a major story at the time.

Where is Khazali now, you ask? Thanks to the Obama Administration, he’s walking free.

“We let a very dangerous man go, a man whose hands are stained with US and Iraqi blood,” a military officer said. “We are going to pay for this in the future.”

The US military has maintained that the release of members and leaders of the League of the Righteous is related to a reconciliation agreement between the terror group and the Iraqi government, but some US military officers disagree.

“The official line is the release of Qazali is about reconciliation, but in reality this was a prisoner swap,” a military intelligence official said…

“This was a deal signed and sealed in British and American blood,” a US military officer told The Long War Journal. “We freed all of their leaders and operatives; they [the League of the Righteous] executed their hostages and sent them back in body bags. And we’re supposed to be happy about it.”

First of all, what’s this shit about reconciliation? We’re allowing murderers of American troops to be released in the name of “reconciliation” between a country we liberated and one we’re on the verge of war with?

And who are we swapping this mass murderer for? Peter Moore, a British computer programmer who was kidnapped by Khazali’s for the exact purpose of having a bargaining chip. In other words, we gave into the demands of terrorists and demonstrated that bargaining chips will work in the future. Meaning, low and behold, terrorists will look to capture even more hostages in the future.

Let’s be clear: The Obama Administration agreed to release a man responsible for murdering five American soldiers and carrying out upwards of twenty terror attacks in Iraq. Obama allowed a mass-murdering terrorist, and threat to the United States, to walk free.

This is like an alternate universe.