"I fear only God. I am ready to sacrifice my blood for this country."Well I hope his dreams come true. This fool is attempting nothing but a power grab after being ignored by other Shiite clerics and by the Iraqi governing authority. Men looking for power are not ready to sacrifice their lives. It's difficult to enjoy your new found power when you're six feet under after all.
Regardless, the U.S. should take this guy out in a 'blaze of glory' if that is his choice. People of position within Iraq must understand that power cannot be allowed to be taken by force or by the threat of force. Satisfying al-Sadr's request will be good insurance against the next al-Sadr wannabe.
Plus in general it would probably be good for the U.S. to once and a while 'go loopy' while in Iraq. The American military is to predictable in how they deal with trouble makers. First they ignore him for a while, then the try to shut him up, then they negotiate, and then they start shooting. This is obviously no good for a number of reasons. People hungry for power or prestige know this and use it to their advantage. Plus the Western media is even more predictable and provide a wonderful means of spreading their message... whatever it may be.
The next time someone pulls a stunt like al-Sadr the U.S. should go ballistic, guns blazing, and no negotiating. That way the next al-Sadr will think twice before stirring up trouble. I'm not suggest they do this everytime of course, just for the sake of argument, every fourth of fifth trouble maker would do just fine.
We all know that if the U.S. had just gone in, grabbed or killed al-Sadr, everyone would have forgotten about him by now. Us in the West would never even have known his name.
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