Muqtada al-Sadr is long overdue for his date with the next world, assuming there is one.
You can only put out so much effort to negotiate. Then you eliminate. It’s time for the latter option. Past time. Diplomacy will not work with this guy. Kill him and be done with it. He is and has been encouraging Iraqis to fight the Coalition and kill U.S. troops for four years. Why do we keep wasting time talking with a barbarian?