George W. Bush last week was praising the Iraqi government's crackdown on anti-American cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's militias that control large swaths of Southern Iraq and Baghdad. The Iraqi army, with a lot of help from American and British air and ground forces, tried to take out Sadr's forces, and Sadr won.

Not only did Sadr basically hold on to all of that territory, he has basically destroyed Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's credibility, and brought the Iranians in to help broker the peace.

Tell me how this is good for American interests?