Mahdi stage acts of impotence

Times:

Supporters of Hojatoleslam Moqtada al-Sadr, the anti-American cleric, burnt an effigy of George Bush in Baghdad yesterday and gave warning of a return to armed resistance if parliament approves a deal that will allow US forces to remain in Iraq for three more years.

“No, no to the agreement of humiliation,” the followers chanted at a demonstration against the pact in a square in Baghdad where US Marines toppled a statue of Saddam Hussein after the March 2003 invasion.

At one point the effigy of the outgoing US President, dressed in a black suit and carrying a suitcase labelled “security agreement”, was hoisted up a parapet where the Saddam statue once stood in Firdous Square.

After a special session of Friday prayers, members of the crowd swarmed over to the effigy and pelted it with shoes, boots and bottles of water, knocking the scarecrow-like figure off its post. Then they tore the dummy apart and set it alight.

...

That really sounds like an adult approach to expressing your dissatisfaction--not. It actually resembles an orchestrated tantrum by the impotent. The Mahdi army has been defeated and if they try to reemerge they will be crushed by the Iraqi army.