At Least He Is Consistent

Moqtada asSadr proclaimed an extension to his 6 month truce on February 22, 2008. Since the previous truce was taken as a sign of peaceful intentions, this one was also. Anyone who wanted confrontation and negative news for the Bush Administration, leading up to the April visit of General Petraeus to Congress, would be very much disappointed. Or would they? There is remarkable devotion to doing the stupid thing in the present administration. Or, if not the stupid thing, then the most horrendous thing. Take your pick. Cheney and the Bush Administration, as well as General Petraeus, interpreted the truce as a sign of weakness within the Mehdi Army. Soon there was planning with alMaliki to tweak the little ayatollah's beard. It did not work. The army asSadr was training while it was on the truce. Refurbishing, retraining, it almost smoked the new Iraqi Army under alMaliki, necessitating US air strikes to shore up the almost capable, but not nearly victorious, new Iraqi army. So we have Iran brokering the peace and the Mehdi army showing the world that just like Hizbollah, reports of their demise were premature. Now Petraeus goes to the April hearings with another Bush Cheney miscalculation under his belt.