The way I see it is that al-Sadr looked around and saw all these Sunnis up norht with budging pockets of $$$ that Bush has given them to quit shootin' at US and figured...

..."what the Hell??? I'm gonna get some of that dough fir the Mahdi Boys..."

"Sooner or later it all comes down to money..." Bruce Springstein form his song "Big Muddy"

So I reckon that if Bush was real nice to the Chinese they might lend him another $3B a week to put Sadr's folks on the payroll...

B;~)