"Imagine a gang invaded your house, tortured your kid, beat up your wife and wounded you."
That would be what the militias were doing. Only someone as thick has a mud brick would see them as "good guys".
Sadr is spent. He's lost much of his credibility, bases of operation in Najaf, Basra, and now East Baghdad, and can't even show his face outside of Iran. The false propaganda the MSM painted in Basra of a Sadr victory has been shown to be as fake as Dan Rather's documents.
Within ten years, Baghdad will be the new Dubai.