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The not so hidden scuttlebutt is that Sadr's militia will be taken out when the new government comes into power. I will not hold my breath though. He is a surviver.

yes, but I suspect he will try to cut some deal again to disarm his militia and then renig on it several months later like last time.

Yes we had read a few weeks back in one post the plans for once the government is officiated, Sadr's milita would be dealt with. As for jmc1969's comments, I feel he is pretty close or could be dead on. Jaafari had to have something pretty tough pushed in the front of his nose, such as reliable info as how he was involved in rigging elections in the south as well as elsewhere. I have a feeling there are more Iraqi politican who really hate Sadr and Jaafari and Jaf's inner circle then we could expect. Forces are working against him for four months plus. Hakim being a shia ayattolah and a Persian leaning political type from the SCIRI would have to have a darn good reason to not support Jaafari from the UIA standpoint. Granted he wanted his man in, Mahdi. But I sense he was stabbed in the back by the Dawa party and those falling under the spell of the fat boy.
And if anything. Mahdi is on the record for a unity national government ruled in a secular way. Which is in line with what Sistani has asked for all along, and I sense Hakim has gone along with though, dispite his ties to the Persian Shia.
This could just work out, if some real meat ball is not elected as PM.
The new PM is going to turn things around or it will go down hill, and this time it may really go nutzo, due to the peoples total disapointments in the gov.