Sadr's Threat

Muqtada Sadr's rhetoric is getting more disturbing:

"In his sermon Friday in Kufa, near the holy city of Najaf, Sadr also told followers to fight 'the occupiers.' He urged them to 'strike them where you meet them,' and said he hoped the leaders of Hezbollah and Hamas would accept him as 'their striking arm in Iraq,' The Washington Post and Newsday reported yesterday. Hussein said Sadr was expressing solidarity with those groups, rather than declaring plans to adopt the tactic of suicide bombings, which Hamas has used to kill hundreds of Israelis. But Hussein said such a tactic was not inconceivable in the future."

If Shi'ite radicalism takes this direction, we might see the worst-case scenario in Iraq, especially when they come up against the former Ba'ath loyalists in places like Falluja.

I'm getting depressed about this whole situation.