His uprising was never more than a lunatic band propped up by Iran. He never had significant popular support, not even for an instant. And now that's fizzling. Except the same to happen with Fallujah in due time.

What al-Sadr is carefully planning nowadays is a way to stay alive and out of jail.

Were you spouting all this doom and gloom because you believed it, or because you wanted it to be true?