Dihey,
Your essay merely re-enforces my assertion that al-Sadr is adopting TeaParty tactics. I fail to see the difference other than some minor contextual issues.  Tactically, it’s the same.

dihey:  Thanks for your correction and extension. My comment was too smart-aleck and not clear.  My thought was only to pick up on the many ultimata issued from the U.S. to that part of the world, and the position of superiority we assume in issuing those ultimata.

I wonder who taught him the art of the ultimatum? Could it have been that too often extended index finger of Bush and Company, continuing on now with Obama?  The Great American Indicator:  “OUR WAY OR THE HIGHWAY, YOU BENIGHTED FOREIGNERS AND ASSORTED HUDDLED MASSES! LISTEN UP OR WE’LL DRONE YOU TO DEATH!”

Yes, the U.S. is the great satan just like the
ayatollahs and mullahs say. We go anywhere and
everywhere and take what we want, when we want from
whomever happens to legitimately own it.

We pummeled Iraq with a “no-fly” zone for a decade
after destroying much of their infrastructure and
army.

We then invaded for no apparent reason and finished
the destruction of their society and infrastructure
in the hope we could rebuild it (with help of Iraqi
traitors) into a friendly client state that would let
EXXON, BP, CHEVRON et al rape and pillage the
remaining wealth of the country.

If Sadr wants to declare war on our remaining troops
there, he is pretty much entitled as far as I can
see. And while he is at it maybe he can make the
Green Zone uninhabitable too so he won’t have to
continually repeat this effort.

Regardless of how we view him. He is a freedom
fighter and patriot to them Iraqi people. Should we
ever shed our hubris and inane exceptionalism we
might actually recapture our humanity.

From berniem:

“... borrow a few more trillion from our good friends in China…”

Just remember that the biggest debt-holders to the U.S. government are not the Chinese.  They are Wall Street bankers.

Makes you think ... or it should.

“Al Jazeera correspondent Jane Arraf, reporting from Baghdad, said that this time Sadr had not only warned US troops but also the contractors.”

Good for Sadr. He is a nationalist and wants us to get out. He is right. I wish we had a leader who would rally the poor and stand up to the injustice American politicians and corporations have wrought here in the U.S.
The previous commenters obviously are falling for the same old propaganda they hear in the news. Sadr is right: America should get out of Iraq. It is ignorant to compare Sadr to those in the GOP. Sadr is on the side of the poor, the murdered, and the hungry. Educate yourselves.

This is a good sign that Iraq is truly becoming an American style democracy!

Too bad Sadr seems to only have studied the Republican Party and the wacko Tea
Bagger’s approach to democracy. . . i.e., bring nothing to the table, demand your
own way or the highway, scream a lot, and if you don’t get your own way, destroy
the whole system and take as many down with you as you can.

I hope that GWB and his neo-wacko-conservatives are happy now!

Doesn’t he sound just like Ryan and the rest of the fascisti teabagger in Congress and statehouses across America?

Tut, tut! What’s a good and exceptional American empire to think about this threat from an uppity and ungrateful “haji”? Is there no decency left in the world when the totally benevolent and sole SUPER POWER left on earth “liberates” and democratizes your worthless (but oil rich) society is shown such lack of appreciation? Well, I guess we’ll just have to see about all of this lack of respect and borrow a few more trillion from our good friends in China and either bribe the bastards or maybe just sic Blackwater on them or fly around in one of our gun ships and shoot up a few civilian neighborhoods!

Moqtada, sounds like a taco, Well He didn´t miss any
meals when He went to Iran to get rewired by the
Supreme, delux DUDE. So now Bobby Gates from Hell says
“Well they asked us to stay”, Babies playing army.The
USA economy thrives on Arm Sales Military Weapons, So
this Muslim Endless WAR serves the needs and interests
of the AMERICAN TAXPAYER, so do not pay your taxes this
15th of April, FEARFUL FOOLS PAY TAXES!

Despite our depictions of guys like Sadr back here at home, is there any chance
they are so tuned into history that they just know exactly when to time their
shenanigans as to entangle the over extended octopus and further bankrupt the
empire?

TDoff, I know you are being tongue and cheek, but you hit the nail on the head.  Is
there any doubt that this will cost us untold billions more?  My question is, do they
really know us better than we know ourselves, or is it one man who knows a pay
day when he sees it?

Those Iraqi religious folks burn through money almost as fast as our contractors over there, like Halliburton and Xe. Here’s Moqtada again, making the moves to get another billion-dollar bribe from the US not to fight against US. He sure picked a bad time, broke as the US is, they’re going to have to fire a whole bunch more teachers and cops, and let some more thousands of kids go without food and health care in order to give al-Sadr his ‘peace’ money.
‘Course, the GOPers will make up for that by doing some more tax cutting for corporations and the ultra-rich.