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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: michael97123 who wrote (246454)10/24/2007 11:29:18 AM
From: Lou Weed  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
<<The bigger point is that the US cant figure out how to deal with these guys for maximum benefit to US interests. I missed the show. Did they address that?>>

One of the main driving points in the show was precisely this issue and how it got screwed up by this admin's complete dismissal of any Iranian involvement in post Saddam Iraq. They interviewed Khatami's VP quite a bit. Iran could have been an enormous help with regard to a political solution in Iraq.....just as they were in Afghanistan. The non-response by the WH to the fax from the Iranians right after the fall of Baghdad looms as quite a huge blunder in hindsight. In fact the show pointed out that Iran had to step in to resolve a big issue to set up the first Iraqi congress....can't remember the exact issue? Point being they even helped out there regardless of the current state of our relationship with them.

The majority of Iraq's population is Shiaa....if a democracy is to be set up then the ruling power will always be theocratically and ideologically linked to Iran. They showed lots of photos of Iraqi Congress officials shaking hands with Ahmedinijad (sp?). To shun any help from the Iranian side was just another in a long list of of huge mistakes born of the incompetence and arrogance of this current administration.

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