Post #26 was from the Flopping Aces Blog....
From the Strata Sphere Blog:
Sadrists Movement Is Dead, Pulls Out Of Elections
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the Sadrist movement is now limping off the Iraqi political stage, too injured from a self-inflicted wound of extremism to survive by popular support:
The movement of anti-American cleric Moqtada al-Sadr said Saturday that it would not take part in provincial elections this year, one day after it formed a new paramilitary group to fight U.S. troops.
Sadr is clearly a spent political force.