[Brandon]

I'd like to remind everyone that just because certain Iraqis say we're morally heinous doesn't mean that we actually are.

I don't see these uprisings as motivated by unjust oppression but by a desire to fill the massive power vacuum that the U.S. will leave behind. Sadr will use any sort of religious rhetoric he can come up to rally support from common, impressionable Iraqis, but, in my estimate, he's just got designs on Saddam's old throne.