From today's Iraq'd, from the New Republic:

Congratulations, President Bush. You have turned a marginal enemy, the thuggish and anti-democratic cleric Moqtada Al Sadr, into a symbol of Shia aspirations in a free Iraq. The Washington Post describes the stakes: "If put down forcefully, a Shiite uprising--infused with religious imagery, and symbols drawn from Iraq's colonial past and the current Palestinian conflict--could achieve a momentum of its own."

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