Al-Sadr going nuts

Al-Sadr threatens to end cease-fire - Yahoo! News

I'm not sure what he's doing, but it's starting to concern me.

The media has been fubar for quite some time over Iraq. A little bit after al-Maliki had began a campaign to stop the militias and al-Sadr told his "troops" to back down, the media claimed that weakened al-Maliki! I don't know how that worked out, but it seems that they're not going to recent that "assessment" in light of what's going on now. Al-Maliki has threatened to bar al-Sadr from the political process if he kept his militia going, which would be politically devastating to al-Sadr, since all he'd have is a militia that he can no longer control.

But now, he's called off a march that he had scheduled recently, claiming that his followers weren't being allowed to set it up. Personally, I think that he's realizing that he's not going to get the million Iraqis that he was expecting. First off, his damn militia is freaking everyone out in Basra and Baghdad so much that no one wants to even leave their homes; second off, everyone's beginning to realize that they're becoming a nation unto themselves finally. Baghdad is getting some fortitude, finally, and making things better. They're getting themselves out of the specter of being an Iranian puppet—something that no doubt left a bad taste in the mouths of most Iraqis. This is also making Iran ticked off, so they're dumping more of their usual military arsenal into the rogue militias that al-Sadr claims to control.

Unless I'm completely off-base, I think we're seeing the end of al-Sadr and the beginning of a fully independent and strong democratic Iraq, in spite of the efforts to do otherwise, both in Iran and Congress.