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To: RetiredNow who wrote (911)	7/24/2008 7:00:22 AM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) of 86355

In what way do you consider Iran to have risen? Its nuclear program perhaps? The construction of its uranium enrichment facitility in Natanz and heavy water facility in Arak was publicly revealed in August 2002 by Iranian dissidents - before the Iraq war IOW. Iran's economy has been weakening for some time despite high oil prices. Its only real international followers are Syria and Hezbollah in Lebanon. That isn't a new situation - they've long been aligned - again since before the Iraq war. As for the rise of the Shia in Iraq, thats a matter of democracy. The Shia are the majority group. We have no control over the situation anymore. The ME has never been under our control. further Arab hatred against us First, for a dozen years prior to the war we were enforcing UN sanctions against Iraq which most everyone in the Arab world believed was killing 50,000 Iraqi babies a year. Thats what Al Jazeera said as they broadcast images of crowds attending baby funerals. This charge was one of Osama's supports for his fatwas against the US. The western left took up the same line of attack claiming the US was deliberately spreading disease and starvation in Iraq waging a criminal war against the Iraqi people. The result was widespread Arab hatred of the US BEFORE the war. Second, since the war, especially since the surge, Arabs have come to see their jihadis as attacking Arab civilians as they did in Iraq. This has weakened support for our enemies in the Arab world. Furthermore, Arabs can see that we've allowed Iraq to establish a real democracy - the only real practicing democracy in the ME - which gives the Iraqi people greater freedom of expression than any other Arab country. This will not be bad for us in the long run I think.

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