Part of the statment today pointed out how the plan involves disarming and disbanding the Militas.
Sadr is either going to get squished or have to surrender.
Basically its is good cop Malikhi and bad cop US Military putting the squeeze on.
Frankly I wish they would just kill this twit.
but they don't kill him - and its not like he is in hiding - he could be killed at any time, but isn't. he could be sent a message at any time by knocking off one of his "lieutenants" each and every day until he got the message, but that doesn't happen either.
and that tells you what the problem is.