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To: Dayuhan who wrote (218114)	2/13/2007 8:49:06 AM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (1) of 281500

Without access to the evidence or more detailed information about it, it's all speculation. Agreed. Fortunately, speculation is rare on this thread... :o) I'm inclined to believe that the Iranian Government, or hard-line elements within that Government, have been sending weapons to Shiite radicals in Iraq, simply because the incentives for them to do so are so obvious. Same rationale we use. It's better to fight over there in Iraq than fight over here. It's even better to have a proxy than it is to do it yourself. We've used that one a few times ourselves. Poor Iraqis, everyone wants to fight a war in their country. I don't doubt, though, that if the potential costs of such a policy were to seem high enough, that Government might be prepared to disavow and reverse it. They've already disavowed it. It's to their advantage for the US to die a death of many cuts in Iraq. And it's to the advantage of the US to blame the failure in Iraq on someone else and/or to have an excuse for bombing their nuclear facilities. Even if they did stop it wouldn't do them any good. jttmab

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