[lavrenti]

I agree with your point. However, considering the current shelf-life of Iraqi Shia clerics, Sadr probably hasn't long to go before he becomes yet another badly reproduced poster on some Baghdad slum wall, along with all the other Shia "martyrs" going back to Mohammad's sons-in-law.

I am confident somebody will take him out. At the moment he is too close to the Iranians and seriously far from God, as it were.

[Travis McGee]

It would be a big help if enemy leaders (like Sadr) who call for terrorist attacks died real soon after. Every healthy day for them after they call for the death of our troops is a victory for their side. We should have the means and the will to pinpoint target these firebrands, I would tend toward the Yassin method: a supersonic missile from the sky they can't see or hear coming.

This is far preferable to me to putting platoons of Marines into the concrete rabbit warren of Iraqi slums, looking for unrecognizable adversaries, and facing IEDs in every alley and courtyard.