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Politics : Bush-The Mastermind behind 9/11?

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To: sea_urchin who wrote (6770)5/31/2004 9:33:18 AM
From: sea_urchin   of 20039
 
Continued ....

> One of the reasons Iran is helping Iraq's rebels is because they obviously have a vested interest in ensuring that the transition in Iraq isn't too smooth for the Americans

Maybe, but remember the HQ for the Shiite religion, which is the main Muslim religion type in Iran, is in Iraq. This is a very good reason, in fact, why the southern part of Iraq should have been joined on to Iran and is precisely the reason why Britain didn't do it when she cut up the Ottoman Empire after WW1 like a piece of salami.

> quagmire hurts public support for war, and keeps Iran safer from a U.S. attack

Stands to reason. There's no doubt that if Iraq was a "walkover", as the neocons predicted it would be, Iran would probably have been attacked already.

PS. I have to break up my response because I have a mysterious upload problem which limits the size of my posts.
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