You're completely right. I've never been in the military. But my brother-in-law spent 20 years there, and I get almost daily emails, the way other people get forwarded jokes (he is not active, and would never break code). No one - and I mean no one - can predict or control what is going to happen in Iraq between now and November. Least of all, the Pentagon. If they could, we would not be in the real Operation Chaos we are in over there. Sadr has far more power and influence on that situation than anyone in the Pentagon has or ever will.