Reply #3: Well, we know who pulls al-Maliki's strings.

[MADem]

That would be ole Muqtada al-Sadr. Thus, Bush is taking orders from a fat guy in a black turban, who leads a killer militia, the unelected head of the Dawa Party. Nice....

Of course, if the extra troops are keeping order in Baghdad, then the Baghdad police, which are HEAVILY infiltrated by al-Sadr's al-Mahdi brigade, would be able to take some time off and do a little Sunni killing, the better to consolidate Muqtada's power.

What a load of horseshit, all of it...