If the right people (pun intended) made enough money and increased their power enough, then of course it was worth it! Lives? Hey, the *important* people don't care about whether unimportant people live or die. In fact, the more the cannon fodder die, the more chances the important people have for emotional blackmail.

Pure conjecture, shanester.

Saddam was a very bad man.

You have no way of knowing that Sadr would be worse.

To me, what you wrote sounds like negative spin.

Why do you want to utilize negative spin? Is there an agenda you have?

For the same reason they haven't captured Osama bin Laden, he's useful.

Ray guy: Maybe its because the US troops are "horse assing" around rather than getting serious about this war?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k36GEOEkcgo&mode=related&search= US soldiers horse assing around;

Al Sadr. Do you really think he was controlling anything? I don't. I think the militia's will go right on killing without him.

Al Sadr can't calm anything. He wants to align himself with the US for some of those lush, green taxpayer dollars that flow like milk and honey in Iraq.

You always swallow the bait hook, line & sinker.

The American troops are going to go on an all out assault on the Shiites. Thousands of them are Iraqi military by day death squader by night.

Al-Sadr is like Bush. He just wants position and power. He couldn't give a shit about some rag headed sandal clad dirty religious fanatic. Like Hitler he just uses the masses for his purposes and then throws them away.

This move is being done so he can sit in parliment and negotiate away his countrymen's rights.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZZ_KlyqWNI&mode=related&search= So British!

The Surge is taking over Basra since the British are leaving. Al-Sadr can't get the cooperation in policing he got from the British so he is waiting out the Surge until we leave. In the mean time US soldiers will have to police Basra without help.

What a clusterf@%k.

This is a DOG THE DOG Show!!

This 'coordinated' "war" is a circus --WTF UP!!

Huffpo is a TOOL to keep the "left-Right" divide going, NONE OF THEM ARE ON YOUR SIDE!!

I dont think this is going to stop the killing and wounding of US troop by other Muslem groups;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k36GEOEkcgo&mode=related&search= driving through downtown Tikrit, getting shot at; see bullet holes in windshield;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UL0-f_HgvEk&mode=related&search= Iraq Convoy through the streets of Muhammadiyah