I promise the President that no bill will reach the floor of the U.S. Senate that funds operations in Iraq beyond March 31, 2008.

"Bush ignores all the calls asking for withdrawal or for the setting of a timetable for withdrawal, despite the demonstrations that the Iraqi people staged in Najaf and in every spot around the globe."

Muqtada addressed Bush, claiming that the UN had asked for a US withdrawal (not true). He denied that a US withdrawal would throw Iraq into greater chaos:
"What chaos can be greater from what we face in Iraq, in which blood runs every moment, without let-up . . ?" He asked if Bush had just traded Saddam's dictatorship for one of Shiite-hating Sunnis (nawasib) and excommunicators (takfiris). He asked what had become of Bush's debaathification, since he was now asking that Baathists be reinstated in the government. He taunted Bush for having announced an intention to disarm Iraq, complaining that Bush had filled "our beloved Iraq" with weapons. He asked, "How have you fought sectarianism, when you are reinforcing it by building walls and instituting partitions on a sectarian, political basis-- not on a national, Iraqi, Arab or Islamic basis.

Referring to the Democratic Party's dissent from Bush's policies in Iraq, Muqtada asked, "Do you want us to follow your mistakes and your plan, when you have yourselves turned against it? . . . What kind of democracy is this that you desire? Thousands go out to vote, then you go back to national reconciliation with Baathists and terrorists?

Addressing Bush, he said, "While you once predicted that your picture would hang in Iraqis' homes, now it is under their feet . . . You have destroyed the reputation of the West among Easterners generally." He accused Bush of having US troops put their feet on the necks of Iraqis, and desecrating the Qur'an.

He accused Bush of turning Iraq into an arena of contention. He said, "Bush, you wanted to make America more secure, but you have set it ablaze . . ."

Just googling around, here's one from Mother Jones a year ago:

George W. Bush's Uncle Bucky (William H.T. Bush), brother of George H.W. Bush, has collected about $1.9 million in cash, plus $800,000 in stocks, from the recent sale of Engineered Support Systems, Inc. ESSI, of which Bush was a director, was sold to DRS Technologies for $1.7 billion at the end of January, after the company experienced record growth from expanded military contracts, most related to activity in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The concept of "saddling" the GOoPerz with Iraq is of no consequence: everybody on the planet knows who the progenitors of this war have been; that will hardly be shifted to the Democratic Party or its candidates.

The actual focus should be to end it quickly.  It is conceivable that Bu$hKorp will lay a series of "traps" for the next administration.  These sinkholes within the quagmire may be such fabulously negative deals as 1. the production service agreements for BigOil to take over pumping & peddling Iraqi crude, 2. a treaty of some sort with whatever happens to be the Iraqi administration in late 2008, 3. some form of mutual defense & cooperation agreement(s)  with the feudal baronetcies (caliphates) in the region, 4. some bogus contracts with the war profiteers now working for the USA, 5. the potential to widen the Great War on Terra & 6. the total alienation of all possible allies.

Muqtada al-Sadr urged the Iraqi army and police to stop cooperating with the United States and ... concentrate on pushing American forces out of the country

Last summer, July 2006: al-Sadr's office issued a 10 point policy directive to all the offices and branches of the Badr Organization.

Up to now al-Sadr has been showing some restraint from open battle with US Troops.

Point 1 of that letter was:

1 - There is a need to exercise restraint and patience and calm in the face of the full military and political escalation of the Anglo-American occupation forces and not respond to them, so that the enemies will not be able to transfer of the battle to their areas, drain our energies

10- In the case of starting the battle, all Shiites, followers of Imam Ali (peace be upon him), as well as employees of the Ministry of Defense and Interior Ministry to join "Badr Brigade" forces, the Mahdi Army and the Al-Dawa Party, stealing arms and ammunition, machinery and equipment to increase the battle.