Instadouchebag

Having a tough day? Perk up! At least radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr is going to be held accountable for helming a revolt which resulted in over a hundred American deaths.

SADR'S DECLINE CONTINUES: "NAJAF, Iraq (Reuters) - Radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr sent his fighters home on Wednesday in what may mark the end of a 10-week revolt against U.S.-led forces that once engulfed southern Iraq and Shi'ite Islam's holiest shrines."

It's not clear how well things are going with Fallujah, but the response to Sadr seems to have been handled quite well.

I suppose that's true, if your definition of "quite well" equates to handing legitimate political power to a man who stirred the Iraqi insurgency to what has become, for US forces at least, the bloodiest of the invasion's 16 months.

Here's what Glenn isn't telling you.

The statement came a day after the US president, George Bush, said America would not oppose a political role for Mr. Sadr, whom it had branded an anti-democratic thug only weeks earlier.

Dan Senor, a spokesman for the US-led administration in Iraq, told CNN that Mr. Sadr was "seeking to save face".

Someone is definitely "seeking to save face" here, but whom isn't so clear.