Safer Than You Were Four Years Ago?/ Al-Sadr Strikes Back Addition

The peaceful, I mean belligerent, I mean peaceful, I mean belligerent, I mean peaceful, I mean belligerent...yeah, belligerent Shi'ite cleric Moqtada Al-Sadr "has renewed hostilities" (that's mil-speak for "started shooting our boys' asses off") with Iraqi and American forces. So we're forced to negotiate with a tin-pot demagogue. But nah, Rumsfeld was right about the necessary troop levels.