Mehdi Army Weapons Buyback

You've heard about Moqtada al Sadr's Mehdi Army in Iraq handing in weapons for large sums of cash?

Does anyone really believe that Sadr won't keep a military option open at this point? There is a murder indictment pending against him.

What controls are there to prevent that money from being exchanged for better weapons? Hasn't everyone acknowledged that foreign terrorists are streaming across the Iraqi border? Does this strike anyone else as probably not the best thought out plan of the war?

Are we really paying a radical cleric who has already incited at least a hundred US deaths top dollar for anything? And we (and by "we", I mean the Iraqi security forces) are paying dollars, not Iraqi dinars.

This is a brilliant plan, guys. Good job.