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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group

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To: NickSE who wrote (101864)6/28/2003 10:06:57 PM
From: Bilow  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Hi Ghostrider; Re the article "Saudi Mischief in Fallujah".

It would take a complete moron to believe that the US could conquer and occupy Iraq, with the intention of changing the government to one supportive of US interests, and with the further goal of eventually changing the governments of the surrounding hostile states (i.e. Syria, Iran and Saudi Arabia), without concluding that those surrounding states would contribute forces to impede US progress in Iraq.

Only a complete moron would think that Iraq could be cut off from its neighbors and dealt with alone, and that our enemies would sit around without causing problems for us.

By the way, that Shiite town where the UK lost 6 soldiers appears to be under the control of Iranian trained Shiite guerilla forces:

Militia Trained in Iran Controls a Tense Town
NY Times, June 26, 2003
The Badr Brigade, a militia group whose members trained in Iran during the long rule of Saddam Hussein, controls this town of 50,000 people where six British soldiers and four Iraqis were killed in a firefight this week, residents said today.
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nytimes.com

-- Carl
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