The Most Important Man In Iraq?

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Here Comes Moqtada
by Cenk Uygur

"I tell the evil Bush, leave our land, we do not need you or your armies....I tell the occupiers...you have your democracy and we have our Islam; get out of our land."
--Moqtada al-Sadr last week

A couple of days ago I wrote about how the new Bush-Maliki deal might undermine any gains we have made on the security front in Iraq over the last three months. This deal gave Bush an "enduring" presence in the form of bases on top of Iraqi oil fields and it gave Maliki protection from all other Iraqi factions. I thought this might irritate some other folks in Iraq, to say the least. And it has.

His name is Moqtada al-Sadr. And one day he is going to come for Iraq. Some analysts believe that he wants to establish a Hezbollah like presence in southern Iraq; some say he wants to get involved in politics and carve out a sphere of influence for himself; some say he might want a small fiefdom in southern Iraq. My reading of the situation leads me to believe that those analysts are grossly underestimating his ambitions.

I think he wants all of Iraq...

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