Moqtada Sadr’s Mehdi Army is battling the Iranian backed Badr Brigade. The Badr Brigade controls the Iraqi military. So the Iranian influenced Iraqi army and thus al-Malaki are battling Sadr’s Mehdi for the oil. The Brits let things get out of control in the south.
Time to call in the marines after the B-52’s clean the carpet.
You're suggesting that B-52s carpet bomb the Iraqi Army? The IA has totally provoked this fight, and you're right that they (or rather the Badrists within) are only doing fighting al-Sadr to seize control of the oil revenues ahead of the upcoming elections, which will empower the hardly pro-US Badr Organization... but bombing an Army that the US has spent five years trying to build does not seem like a public relations success.