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No kidding. It sickens me too. why are we even there!

To be honest, the only solution now over Sadr, is one and only one person - Sistani.

You can't fight these zealots with military power, we don't have enough people there. We can only fight it with a greater power of its own kind - and that will only come from Sistani.

IF, big if, our own zealots in the Admin. (I am talking about the neocons insisting the new Iraqi democracy must be like our own) are willing to make a bet with Sisrani, allowing some sort of moderate form of Islamic govn. of the new Iraq, Sistani "may" just may come out and tell his supporters to support the US to stablize the country. It was Sistani and his senior clerics' supporters chasing Sadr down (remember Sadr was the trouble maker last yr then all of a sudden he was quiet). Seniority plays a big role in Islam, and this Sadr guy means noithing to the elders. We need to work with sistani to get a real solution out of this. If we don't and thinking military might will win the day, we are looking for daily headlines like the ones we had on Sunday (or worse).

I knew we are in trouble there as soon as folks like Bremmer said he has the final say on the which laws will pass in the constitution in Iraq and complete refusal to buy in Sistani's election timetable. Iraq may have the Sadr zealots, we have our own zealots as well. I hope our government will oust the same zealots here before they rot this administartion through. The only worse option than these zealots here are the democraps and the left.

Sistani is the only way out, pleases him, all these stuff will get snuff out in a hurry. Compare to Sadr, Sistani is far more moderate, so it is a matter to choose between the two. If we were so afraid of the rise of an Islamic state after Saddam, we should have never gotten in. But then again, I bet those neocons never tell the president about this. Get Sistani, have the election, rid the handpicked governing council, call our boys home, rid our own zealots, and close this chapter off once it for all. Maybe we will never see the rise of those neocons ever again in this country, and that maybe just as good as ridding Saddam from Iraq, just doing the same here.

jmho.