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Originally Posted by Mike F
There's your human nature -- al-Sadr wants power, and when power through crackdowns by the Mahdi Army wasn't a stable strategy, he transforms himself into a populist to gain power through conventional politics.
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Sounds like another famous Iraqi leader of not so long ago. Interestingly enough, I was going through my National Geographic collection and came across one with Saddam Hussein that promoted him as a forward thinker opposed to fundamentalism.