AP: President Jalal Talabani told Rice, "We are living in the Iraqi political spring." All of us know, like in absolutely know, that the Maliki government's days are numbered and Sadr is kicking ass in Basra. The almost always slanted and wrong Associated Press is reporting that the Iraqi army is flat kicking Sadr's hairy ass all over Southern Iraq and taking almost no prisoners.

Al-Sadr gave what he called a "final warning" to the al-Maliki government Saturday to halt a U.S.-Iraqi crackdown against his followers or he would declare "open war until liberation."

Asked about al-Sadr's statements of all-out war, Rice told reporters that he appears to be content to let supporters do the fighting "while he sits in Iran."

"I guess it's all-out war for anybody but him," she said