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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....
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To: Sully- who wrote (16095)11/28/2005 12:58:08 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof  Read Replies (1) of 35834
 
The Iran/Iraq defense pact has been widely reported in ALL media.

(And the cooperation between their intelligence services has been commented upon by US military briefers out of Baghdad, among others.)

As to 'So, why exactly is it 'in our strategic interests' to stand in the middle of the Shi'a / Sunni civil war in Iraq,'

Obviously, that is a *question* I am posing... and the rest of the paragraph is clearly my OPINION:

'...having both sides take pot shots at us... instead of removing ourselves (after all: we have achieved our objective, Saddam is gone) from the area, and standing back and *benefiting* from the inter-Islamic civil war, which would divert the attention of extremists on both sides from focusing their ire on the West... and might actually result in the political failure of extremism and fundamentalism all around, and ultimately allow for the emergence of an Islamic Reformation, and the success of political moderation and religious pluralism?'

'There is always more then one way to skin a cat.'
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