As Iraq heads to elections in less than three months, the Sadrists increasingly align with Masoud Barzani’s Kurdistan Democratic Party. Barzani’s political party is perhaps Iraq’s most corrupt and autocratic. The greatest violator of Iraqi sovereignty today is Turkey, whose army has established more than three dozen forward operating bases across Iraqi Kurdistan and into regions of Iraq under Iraqi government control. Nor can Muqtada claim to defend Iraqi sovereignty and then ally with the only political party to try to secede from Iraq. The real irony is that by allying with the Kurdistan Democratic Party, Muqtada is also aligning with perhaps the most pro-Israel party in Iraq.