The four day ‘truce’ brokered by the Shiite Sadrists, the only remaining faction still fighting in Iraq, meant to stop the fighting in the Sadr City area of Baghdad has failed – indicating Sadr and his Sadrist movement in Iraq have no control over the Iranian trained and armed thugs trying to destabilize the democratically elected and Shiite led government in Iraq:

A fragile cease-fire failed to stop fighting in Baghdad’s Sadr City where the latest clashes between Shiite extremists and U.S.-backed Iraqi forces killed 11 men and wounded 19, Iraqi hospital officials said Tuesday.

The U.S. military said that it responded to several attacks by militants with precision strikes, but only confirmed killing three militants. Two of the militants were killed in a Hellfire missile strike by an attack aircraft, according to the military. U.S. soldiers also suppressed “enemy fire” in four other clashes with tanks and attack aircraft, the military said.

The clashes erupted late Monday, just hours after Iraq’s main Shiite political bloc and supporters of firebrand cleric Muqtada al-Sadr signed a cease-fire with the hope of ending seven-weeks of fighting that has left hundreds of people dead in the capital.

It was not immediately clear if the those killed in the clashes, which escalated early Tuesday, were militants or civilians. There were women and children among the wounded, said hospital officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media.

The military said Tuesday that militants staged several attacks on U.S. soldiers in Sadr City and elsewhere, but there were no troop casualties.

One of the prime reasons innocents are injured and killed is because the Mahdi thugs use them as human shields, setting up the launchers and attacks from amongst the population – a clear war crime. But what this really demonstrates is these Iranian backed killers are not answerable to the Sadrists, who put all their political reputation on this supposed cease-fire. As I noted yesterday the Iraqi Muslim Street is damn happy to be rid of these violent extremists. The fact the Sadrists, who gave political cover to these brutal and oppressive goons, cannot control them means the coming backlash against the criminals will rebound on the Sadrists at the polls in this fall’s elections in Iraq.

There were clear signs yesterday Iran was sending a signal to their fighters in Iraq to continue the fight. While the Iranian government spun the gullible and naive liberal western news media that they backed the peace, they also sent out word through hardliners that the fight must continue:

Iran’s hard-line newspapers on Monday called on Iraqis to oppose a strategic framework agreement that is being negotiated between Iraq and the United States and accused Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki of caving in to American demands over the pact.

The Jomhuri-e-Eslami daily said in a front-page editorial that the agreement is a “capitulation the U.S. has imposed on the oppressed Iraqi people,” and urged Iraqis to turn to “a popular revolution” that would bring about the “expulsion of the occupiers” from Iraq.

The papers’ blistering criticism of al-Maliki is the first such public condemnation from Iran, which hosted Maliki during the reign of former dictator Saddam Hussein.

What is both pathetic and borderline treasonous is how the liberal media has carried the PR campaign for these killers, pretending like the Shiite Iraqis are forming an uprising, while the truth is they would prefer the Mahdi Army be destroyed and the Iraqi government be in control. The Sadrists are through, they will not be able to hold the seats they have now in Parliament after this failure. The people will be heard and Maliki plans on purging enough of the Mahdi Army so they have an opportunity to vote their preferences freely and without intimidation.

It will be a stunning turn of events this fall, one month prior to the US elections, and it will upend the conventional wisdom here in the US. Americans will see more and more progress and learn more and more how the liberals in the West wrongly predicted defeat, and wrongly bet on Islamo Fascists to bring them to power here in the US.