Well, it looks like the Iraqi Shiites won't be rising up in support of the American army any time soon. Their leader has told them not to. On the other hand, he's warned that if we evict Saddam and don't immediately leave ourselves, we can expect him to sponsor an uprising against us.

Which could become a problem, as Rumsfeld's crew seems to be planning to stick around a while.

But tossing Iran into the "Axis of Evil" made for such a nice rhetorical flourish...