A glimmer of hope in Iraq?

Via Juan Cole:

Al-Hayat reports that after four months of gridlock, the followers of Muqtada al-Sadr in the new parliament signalled their willingness to give up on the candidacy of Jaafari to be prime minister if a consensus emerged to do that in the United Iraqi Alliance. Al-Hayat interprets this new flexibility among the Sadrists, who have 32 seats in the new parliament, as signal that the door is now wide open to a change.

This sounds like good news. It just may have come too late to heal the wounds already inflicted. We'll see.