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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (3076)	1/2/2004 8:44:35 AM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (1) of 3959

That Iraq has nothing to do with Al Qaeda and hence the Iraqi military adventure is a diversion from that war is aptly brought out in this article. The Iraqi Shiites On the history of America’s would-be allies Juan Cole 8 The ambitious aim of the American war in Iraq—articulated by Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz, and other neoconservative defense intellectuals—was to effect a fundamental transformation in Middle East politics. The war was not—or not principally—about finding weapons of mass destruction, or preventing alliances with al Qaeda, or protecting the Iraqi population from Saddam’s terror. For U.S. policy makers the importance of such a transformation was brought home by the events of September 11, which challenged U.S. strategy in the region by compromising the longstanding U.S. alliance with Saudi Wahhabis. In response to this challenge, the Bush administration saw the possibility of creating a new pillar for U.S. policy in the region: a post-Baathist Iraq, dominated by Iraqi Shiites, which would spark a wave of democratization across the Middle East. ....continued at bostonreview.net

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