I think all rational and irrational people would agree that we are much better off without this guy.
Unfortunately, there's always somebody out there who wants us to feel sorry for a mass murderer.
Not only his father and two brothers were murdered by Saddam.
Also his father-in-law and his sister where literally slaugthered by Saddam's thugs.
Sadr is a threat, our enemy, a dangerous islamo-fascist thug, but he has plenty good reasons to hate Saddam. And if it weren't for the ugly political symbolism, I would resent the fact that Saddam was taunted with the names of Baqir and Moqtada al-Sadr.
Lots of Iraqis had family murdered by Saddam. It is not that we aren't better off with Saddam dead and gone. It is the sectarian display by Sadr Brigade thugs representatives of an ambush murderer of American troops that is so unpalitable.
Sadr didn't bring Hussein to the gallows, we did.
That's right he did, and then he kissed Saddam's rear for years, until the US and Coalition forces took Saddam down, now he's all "brave leader of the Mahdi Army". Somebody kills my brother that way, and there are no police and courts to help bring him to justice, I won't be waiting decades to get the job done, and I won't have any "army" behind me either. I'll just have to be an "Army of One", well along with his son, who is pretty handy with a 12 gauge.
"Unfortunately, there's always somebody out there who wants us to feel sorry for a mass murderer."
Yes, there are several who want us to feel sorry for a mass murderer. I will not be one of them.
I take it from your comments, you will not be one of them either.