An Ominous Warning from al Sadr

CNN is reporting that Iraqi Shiite cleric Muktada al-Sadr is threatening "open war" if the Iraqi government, backed by U.S. forces, don't call off attacks on his Mahdi army. al-Sadr complied with the government's order to vacate his headquarters in Basra, but the government wants the Shiite militia to vacate all buildings its control, and is using force to speed that up.

Not long after Dumbya's invasion of Iraq, the U.S. initially courted al-Sadr, who was an enemy of Saddam Hussein's regime, but when it became clear that al-Sadr wanted U.S. forces out of Iraq, he was seen at cross purposes with Dumbya's grand vision. Now we're seeing the result of that flawed "vision" about to erupt in another round of their civil war.