Story is here.
I don't know. This has all the earmarks of Kim Il-sung's entrance into North Korea once the Soviets had cleared the field for him. It is hard to believe that Sadr would go to Iran to be a prisoner of the regime there. Either Iran is eventually gong to use Sadr as a local proxy to take over once the Americans leave or Sadr just wants to personally sit out the inevitable civil war to avoid being assassinated and then, like the Ayatollah Khomeini, waltz back in from abroad to sit atop the government of an Islamic nation once that conflict is decided.
As for Al Qaeda in Iraq, the locals in Iraq got tired of that little glorified street gang and have chased them out. There is zero evidence that the Americans had much to do with that.
All the surge did was deprive U.S. forces in Afghanistan of military resources that were needed to stave off a resurgent Taliban.
We are thus set up right now to get nothing for our blood and treasure thanks to Bush and Cheney. That is nothing to be cheerful about.
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